PTI Murad Saeed quits Senate, urging colleagues to follow suit
Pakistan
Saeed was elected senator from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in July 2025, but could not take the oath as he remained in hiding.
(Web Desk) - Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday night confirmed that its leader, Murad Saeed, resigned from his Senate seat, after sending his resignation to the party chairman, Barrister Gohar Ali Khan.
In a post on PTI’s official X account, Saeed urged all party leaders and members to immediately resign from provincial assemblies, the Senate, and other legislative seats.
In the letter, also posted on the party's X handle, Saeed said, “This parliament, founded on illegitimacy, has become complicit in every attempt to turn the gravest insult to the people’s mandate into the nation’s destiny, where even after taking an oath on the constitution, its authority has been distorted.”
Saeed further said lawmakers demanding basic rights for the “elected and real prime minister” were themselves being confined for protesting, adding, “I hereby resign as a protest.”
Saeed was elected senator from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in July 2025, but could not take the oath as he remained in hiding. His resignation comes amid heightened political tensions.
