The change occurs a week after 43 National Assembly (MNA) members of the former government, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, petitioned a court to nullify notices that the NA speaker had accepted resignations and that seats had been declared empty by the election commission.
The petition was decided by Justice Shahid Karim of the LHC, who barred the commission from holding by-elections in the constituencies until further orders.
A day after PTI legislators stated they were withdrawing their resignations last month, NA Speaker Ashraf accepted their resignations.
