ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Murad Saeed has resigned from his Senate seat, submitting his resignation to party chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, PTI confirmed on Saturday.
In a post shared on PTI’s official X account, Murad Saeed urged all party leaders and members to immediately resign from provincial assemblies, the Senate, and other legislative positions.
In his resignation letter, also posted online, Saeed declared that the current parliament was founded on illegitimacy and had become complicit in undermining the people’s mandate.
“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,” he wrote, adding that even after taking oath on the constitution, its authority had been distorted.
Saeed said lawmakers demanding basic rights for what he called the “elected and real prime minister” were being confined for protesting, stating, “I hereby resign as a protest.”
Saeed was elected senator from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in July 2025 but could not take oath as he remained in hiding.
His resignation comes amid heightened political tensions, particularly over the health of jailed former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan.
The government has decided to transfer Imran to a hospital and form a medical board, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said on Saturday. Information Minister Attaullah Tarar also assured that further treatment would be conducted at a specialised medical facility by eye specialists.
The move follows growing concern after Imran’s lawyer claimed the former premier had lost 85% of the sight in his right eye while in prison.
Chaudhry said the government prioritises humanitarianism and legal requirements, adding that providing medical facilities to prisoners is the state’s responsibility under the law.
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PTI, however, rejected any hospital transfer without the consent of Imran’s family and personal physicians.
A PTI spokesperson demanded that Imran be examined in the presence of at least one family member and insisted that no medical treatment should begin without his personal doctors. The spokesperson warned that any secretive or unilateral action would make the government responsible for the consequences.
The spokesperson stressed that treatment must proceed promptly on humanitarian grounds, calling further delays “inhumane and regrettable.”
Meanwhile, Tarar said a detailed medical report would also be submitted to the Supreme Court, urging that speculation and political rhetoric be avoided.