The arrested MPA Nazir Chohan Monday wrote a letter to the Punjab Assembly (PA) Speaker Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and requested him to continue the current session till his release and return in the House, reported 24News HD TV channel.

Punjab Minister for Jail Fayyaz-ul-Hassan Chohan Monday read out Nazir Chauhan's letter in the assembly. In the letter, the detained lawmaker said the reconciliation had been done at the request of the leadership and he would join the continuing PA session after discharging from the hospital.

Chohan said in the letter that he was under treatment in the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) and would return to the House after recovering from the heart pain. 

The lawmaker paid thanks to the PA speaker for issuing production orders to release him and present him in the House. He said he was personally grateful to Elahi for supporting and taking a stand for him.

Chohan was jailed on a judicial remand of 14 days last Saturday but after getting heart pain was shifted to the PIC.

Reporter Gaddafi Butt