PTI MNAs receive salaries despite eight month absence

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) MNAs who did not attend the assembly session for eight months were paid ten months salary.

Salaries were paid to those 24 PTI MNAs including Imran Khan who had submitted their resignations in August 2014 during the sit-in. Each MNA was paid approximately Rs800,000.

The PTI MNAs were paid approximately Rs20 million and their salaries were paid as their resignations were not accepted.