APDM jettisons resignations’ bag
By Our Special Correspondent

ISLAMABAD—Eighty six members of National Assembly belonging to All Parties Democratic Movement (APDM) on Tuesday tendered their resignations before Speaker National Assembly Chaudhry Amir Hussain in Parliament House.
The Members who tendered resignations included Opposition leader Maulana Fazl ur Rehman, President of Tehreek-e-Insaaf Imran Khan, Parliamentary Leader of PML (N) Makhdoom Javed Hashmi, MMA Parliamentary Leader Liaqat Baloch, Head of Pakhtoon Milli Awami Party Mehmood Khan Achakzai and others.
The APDM leadership has claimed to have collected resignations from 86 MNAs, 62 of those hailing from Muttahida Majlis-e- Amal (MMA). The APDM Members in the form of procession reached Parliament House in great numbers and were holding placards and chanting slogans against President Musharraf and Presidential elections amid stringent security measures.
The Central Leaders of APDM parties handed over signed resignations of their Members of National Assembly. They presented their resignations before Speaker National Assembly Chaudhry Amir Hussain in Parliament House. Overall according to Liaqat Baloch, 86 Members tendered resignations that includes PML Qs Saira Tariq, MMA’s Hafiz Hussain, 25 belong from Jamaat-e-Islami, 32 from JUI (F), 2 from JUP, one from JUP, 20 from PML (N) and one each from ANP, TI and Pakhtoon Khuwa Milli Awami Party.
The Members of the view that the reason behind their resignations is said to Presidential elections of President Musharraf and his keeping the post as Army Chief of the Country adding that they will not allow a dictator to dictate terms for another five years, besides inflation, law and order situation, poverty, unemployment, corruption and terrorist incidents in the past one year, Lal Masjid Operation, Killing of Maulana Ghazi and Law of Jungle etc.
They strongly condemned the verdict of Supreme Court in which President can contest elections in uniform terming it illegal and unconstitutional. Meanwhile Speaker NA has accepted the resignations of all the Members of the APDM and later handed over to Secretary NA for further action. In total, 62 Members of MMA tendered their resignation before Speaker National Assembly Chaudhry Amir Hussain in Parliament House.
The Members included Opposition leader Maulana Fazal ur Rehman, Parliamentary Leader Liaqat Baloch, Abdul Ghafoor Haidri, Sahibzada Zubair, Hakeem Qari Gull Gull Rehman, Sabir Hussain Awan, Rehmat Ullah Khalil, Maulana Gohar Shah, Farid Paracha, Maulana M khan, Khawanzada M sadiq, Maulana Gohar, Maulana Qasim, Maulana Atta ur Rehman, M Osman advocate, Mufti Abrar Sultan, Maulana Shah Abdul Aziz, Maulana Asadullah, Maulana Ahmed Ghafoor, Qari Yousaf, Maulana Hakeem, Ziyad Akram Durrani, Abdul Sadiqui, Fazal Subhan, Abdul Akbal Chitrali, Maulana Asadullah, Maulvi Noor, Mian Aslam, Qazi Hameed Ullah, Hafiz Salman Butt, Maulana Atta ur Rehman, Liaq

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