Resignation of PML-F, PML-Q, NPP ministers accepted

Governor Ebad accepts resignations of ministers who announced the would sit on opposition benches.

KARACHI:

Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad has finally accepted the resignations of the ministers who announced that they would sit on the opposition benches when the new local government system was promulgated on September 7.

According to a notification issued on Wednesday, the resignations of four ministers have been accepted. The ministers are Pakistan Muslims League-Functional’s (PML-F) Jam Madad Ali and Rafique Banbhan, Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid’s (PML-Q) Shaharyar Mahar and National Peoples Party’s (NPP) Abid Jatoi.

The chief minister also accepted the resignation of Imitiaz Shaikh, adviser to chief minister on special education, Nasir Nizamani, adviser to chief minister on mines and minerals, and special assistants to chief minister Noor Hassan Khaskheli and Khadim Hussain Aradin. The last session of the Sindh Assembly had also witnessed pandemonium on the same issue as PML-F ministers vehemently protested, but they were not alloted seats by the speaker, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 29^th, 2012.