ISLAMABAD: Seventeen PTI and allied senators sent their resignations from the Senate standing committees to Senate Chairman Yousaf Raza Gilani on Tuesday.

The application, signed by PTPs parliamentary party leader Senator Syed Ali Zafar, said that the decision had been taken voluntarily in solidarity with incarcerated PTI leader Imran Khan.

The senators who quit the panels included Ali Zafar, Azam Swati, Zeeshan Khanzada, Raja Nasir Abbas (MWM), Aon Abbas, Fawzia Arshad, Dost Muhammad, Mohsin Aziz, Humayun Mohmand, Dr Zarqa Suharwardi, Saifullah Khan Nyazee, Falak Naz, Rubina Naz, Mashal Yousafzai, Mirza Muhammad Afridi, Pir Noorul Haq Qadri and Faisal Javed.

Speaking to reporters at Parliament House, Senator Ali Zafar said that resignations of as many as 17 senators were being submitted as Imran Khan instructed him that there was no need to wait for all members. The remaining resignations would be submitted soon, he added.-Staff Reporter