Islamabad: Beleaguered former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has decided to tender his resignation as a member of the National Assembly ahead of the election for the new Prime Minister of Pakistan. Further, Khan said that he will not sit in the Assemblies with ‘thieves’.

"A man who has one corruption case of 16 billion rupees and another corruption case of 8 billion rupees against him...for that person to be selected and elected as the Prime Minister, there can not be a bigger insult to the country. We are resigning from the National Assembly," Imran Khan was quoted as saying by PTI's official Twitter account.

It is not clear, whether all members of the Imran Khan headed PTI party submits resignations to the National Assembly. However former Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed said that sitting in the Assembly would strengthen the leader of the opposition Shehbaz Sharif and therefore it has been decided to submit their resignation from the National Assembly.

"Imran Khan supported my suggestion during the parliamentary party meeting," he said and added that Khan would visit Peshawar on Wednesday.

"Imran Khan will give a call to people every Sunday to come out against the foreign conspiracy," Rasheed said.

Imran Khan's government was ousted in the National Assembly late on Sunday night, with 174 members voting against his government and the imminent fall of his government.

Shebhaz Sharif younger brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif become the Prime Minister of Pakistan with the support of Opposition parties.

The PTI held a parliamentary party meeting at the Parliament House in Islamabad, reported Radio Pakistan. The meeting was chaired by Imran Khan.

The Pakistani Parliament is going to elect the country's new Prime Minister today after Khan was ousted after a no-confidence vote in the National Assembly.