ISLAMABAD: Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) Law Minister Farogh Naseem resigned from his post on Tuesday to represent Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa in the Supreme Court in a case pertaining to the extension in his tenure.

“Prime Minister Imran Khan has accepted Naseem’s resignation,” said Railways Minister Sheikh Rasheed in a press conference following an emergency meeting of the federal cabinet. The minister said that Naseem will be accompanied by Attorney General Anwar Mansoor Khan in the court.

PM’s aide on accountability Shehzad Akbar said that Naseem had resigned as he could not argue the case as the federal law minister. Akbar said that Naseem could once again take up the mantle of the federal minister after the case ended.

Earlier in the day, the top court suspended the notification of a three-year extension in the tenure of Chief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa till its hearing on Wednesday on the account of it being “not correct”.