Interior minister Rehman Malik, a close aide to President Asif Ali Zardari, resigned from parliament on Tuesday amid a controversy about his dual nationality.
The Supreme Court suspended Malik’s membership of the upper house of parliament, the senate, on June 4 for allegedly running for office while still holding British citizenship.
The court ruling disqualified Malik from his post as interior minister, but he stayed on as the prime minister’s “advisor” on interior affairs.
“I have decided to resign from the Senate and have conveyed my decision to the party leadership. I am willing to fulfil any other responsibility which my party will assign me,” he told reporters in Karachi.
Minutes before Malik’s announcement, dual nationality bill was introduced in parliament to do away with the constitutional clause which bars MPs from acquiring foreign nationality.
“I decided to shun my membership because people are attaching the proposed amendment in the dual nationality law with me,” Malik said.
“So I have given up my membership and will now openly campaign for this bill for the sake of 1.2 million fellow overseas Pakistanis.”
Malik, elected to the Senate in 2009, had earlier told the Supreme Court he renounced his British citizenship and promised to submit documentary evidence in court.
But a certificate presented to a three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry failed to satisfy the judges.
Last month, the Supreme Court temporarily suspended MP Farahnaz Ispahani, the wife of Pakistan’s sacked ambassador to Washington and an advisor to Zardari. She holds dual Pakistani-US nationality.
Gairat jagi hy ya koi aur lucrative offer nazar aa rahi hay?
HAS HE BEEN OFFERED TO BECOME THE CHIEF SECURITY OFFICER OF SUBWAY
Ghairat jagi nahi hai, but forced to do so bcz the SC has already suspended his membership due to dual nationality issue, yet he was continuing & fearing contempt of court had to put forward his resignation as a senator….
These people have no ghairat,they wud be out of business the day they were found having dual nationalities.shame on them and shame on ppp for passing two bills and last shame on us to have such people who we know well and still sent them to rob us of every thing.shame on us wen we say that not all the ppp members of parliament are bad,where r those good ppp members who will say no to these unjust bills passed by parliament.o people hold each and every member accountable in the next coming election.if we don't ,we will be part of the game.remember mr 10 percent???mr president of Pakistan? Hahaha aaa. Right.then shame on us.
Who will prevent him from running away from the country?
This guy did a very smart move. Being a true C.. agent he will run away from the country as soon as new elections will be announced. He is fully aware of the fact what is coming soon. He has no interest in the country except his Masters and his job as an agent is over.
Its real shame a convicted & criminal person holding interior minisitry
We don't need him to just quit the senate. We need him to quit living. He was involved in the murder of BB along with zardari. The law and order situation in Pakistan is worse than Somalia but yet he gets to hold on to his job. If these are the best and brightest people ppp can bring forward then the rest of them must be mentally retarded.
It is a slap in the face of ppp workers if their leadership can only bring foreigners to lead them. It shows that they have no confidence in the local members. Then again, ppp workers are used to getting slapped around. Nothing new to them.
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