ISLAMABAD: As the resignations of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) former lawmakers have been accepted, National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf Monday told the party’s leaders that they could not return to the lower house.

A PTI allocation — led by Amir Dogar and including Kanwal Shauzab, Sajida Begum, Aamer Mehmood Kiani, Amjad Niazi, and others — met the NA speaker at his office in Islamabad.

In a declaration, the NA Secretariat mentioned that the PTI leaders spoke to the speaker about their resignations and demanded Ashraf revoke his decision to accept them.