The judge questioned the legal representative of Hamza whether the petitioner would continue to pursue the case or withdraw his plea.
Hamza was arrested in June 2019 from inside the LHC in relation to two cases pertaining to money laundering and accumulating assets beyond means of income.
The term-wise data of the Senators shows that out of the 52 members retiring from the present 103-member Senate in March next year, 34 belong to the opposition parties and 18 from the treasury benches.
The upcoming Senate will comprise 98 members as there will be no elections on the four vacant seats from the country’s tribal areas after their merger with KP.
All the preparations for the political showdown have been completed as the stage has been made while the venue has also been decorated with flags and banners
The MNAs had earlier written to the speaker requesting not to accept their resignations as they renege from the party’s stance of en masse resignations.
The secretariat had sent a note to both the MNAs for either confirming or denying the development within seven days.
"I never sent my resignation to the [NA] speaker, so where did he [Qaiser] get it from," says Awan.
Sajjad Awan and Murtaza Javed Abbasi appeared at the National Assembly Secretariat and stated that their resignation letters were fake and refused to validate them.