Overview

• PTI’s parliamentary committee settled on Achakzai of PkMAP for the National Assembly and Allama Raja Nasir Abbas of MWM for the Senate, according to party officials and sources.
• PTI MNAs and Senators endorsed the two names, with formal submissions to the National Assembly and Senate Secretariats expected on Tuesday.
• The move follows the August 9 denotification of Omar Ayub and Shibli Faraz from opposition leadership posts after convictions tied to May 9 cases.
• Reports of internal resistance within PTI over the choices were resolved following instructions from the party’s founding chairman.
• Secretary General Salman Akram Raja said the nomination process has begun and maintained that Ayub and Faraz remain party leaders pending court outcomes, noting PTI’s continuing legal pressures.