Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: Following the de-notification of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) National Assembly members by the Election Commission of Pakistan, the Capital Development Authority (CDA) carried out a late-night operation to vacate family suites in Parliament Lodges.
The civic agency, the Islamabad district administration and the capital police got seven family suites vacated. The occupants of these suites included PTI ex-lawmakers Farrukh Habib, Shahid Ahmed Khattak, Zahoor Ahmed Qureshi, Shandana Gulzar, Arbab Amir Ayub and Gul Dad Khan.
CDA’s stance
Sources in the CDA said that ex-federal education minister Shafqat Mahmood, Ali Amin Khan Gandapur, Ali Haider Zaidi, Faheem Khan and Maleeka Ali Bokhai voluntarily vacated their suites on Friday.
They said that the remaining PTI ex-lawmakers, who still hold the official residences, have sought time to vacate the suites as they were getting no-objection certificates from various utility service-provider.
They assured the civic agency that they would vacate the family suites voluntarily in a few days.
The officials said a couple of months ago, the CDA had some suites vacated by lawmakers when resignations of the first batch of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf MNAs were accepted. On January 24, the CDA issued notices to around 80 former PTI lawmakers to vacate the official residences within one week.
The 131 PTI MNAs had tendered en masse resignation in April last year after former prime minister Imran Khan was ousted through a no-confidence vote.
The current coalition government stated that removing the prime minister through the no-confidence motion was constitutional.
