Murad Saeed resigns from Senate, urges PTI to step down from assemblies too

• Dubs parliament as 'fake and major insult to public mandate.'
• Condemns MPs’ confinement for backing 'elected and real PM.'
• Elected senator from KP, Saeed had not taken oath while in hiding.

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Murad Saeed has resigned from his Senate seat, sending his resignation to Chairman Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, the Imran Khan-founded party confirmed on Saturday.

In a post on PTI’s official X account, Saeed urged all party leaders and members to immediately resign from provincial assemblies, the Senate, and other legislative seats.

In the letter, also posted on the party's X handle, Saeed said, “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, where even after taking an oath on the constitution, its authority has been distorted.”

Saeed further said lawmakers demanding basic rights for the “elected and real prime minister” were themselves being confined for protesting, adding, “I hereby resign as a protest.”

It is pertinent to mention that Saeed was elected senator from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in July 2025, but could not take the oath as he remained in hiding.

Saeed’s resignation comes amid heightened political tensions. 

The government has decided to transfer the ailing, jailed PTI founder to a hospital, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry said on Saturday, while the opposition maintained its sit-in at Parliament House.

His remarks came hours after Information Minister Attaullah Tarar assured that the PTI founder’s further checkup and treatment will be done at a "specialised medical facility by eye specialists" — a demand that grew louder in recent days.

Scores of PTI workers took to the streets on Friday in support of Khan, after his lawyer said the former cricket star had lost 85% of the sight in his right eye while in prison.

Taking to his X handle, the minister said, “Considering his [Khan] health, it has been decided to shift him [PTI founder] to the hospital and form a medical board.”

He said the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N)-led government prioritises humanitarianism and legal requirements, adding that it is the government’s responsibility to provide facilities to every prisoner as per the law.

The PTI, however, rejected any hospital transfer of the party founder without prior consent from family and personal physicians.

In a statement posted on the party's official X account, a PTI spokesperson demanded that Khan be examined in the presence of at least one family member.

The spokesperson emphasised that no medical treatment should commence in the absence of the former premier's personal doctors, saying attempts to withhold details about the PTI founder’s health were unacceptable.

The PTI spokesperson warned that the government would be responsible for the "consequences of any secretive or unilateral actions."

Treatment must proceed promptly on humanitarian grounds, the spokesperson said, describing further delays as "inhumane and regrettable."

Earlier, the information minister said in a post on X that a detailed report would also be submitted to the Supreme Court.

“Conjecture, speculations and efforts to turn this into political rhetoric and mileage for vested interests may please be avoided,” he added.