Achakzai refuses to resign as opposition leader

ISLAMABAD: Mahmood Khan Achakzai, the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, has refused to resign from his post.

According to details, he will not step down on the reported demand of the high-level committee of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, which was made at a meeting that continued late into the night on Saturday.

According to a television channel, he said this to close associates of his group late last night, after a meeting of his Tehreek Tahaffuz-e-Ayeen-e-Pakistan. He said that if the man in Adiala Jail who had nominated him as Leader of the Opposition asked him to give up the post, he would resign.

Mahmood Achakzai is the only member of parliament of his party, the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, which is based in Quetta. The Speaker of the National Assembly appointed him Leader of the Opposition in January this year.