4 poor middle class MNAs belonging to MQM resign on dual nationality
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In their resignation letters to the National Assembly speaker, MQM MNAs Haider Abbas Rizvi, Syed Tayyab Hussain, Fauzia Ejaz and Nadeem Ahsan cited “personal reasons” for their decision to quit.
Deepening crisis: Dual national legislators to face court says ECP – The Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD:
Even as four Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) lawmakers resigned over the dual nationality row, more vacant seats are now in sight in the National Assembly. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) secretary said on Sunday that those who have still not submitted affidavits regarding their nationality status will have to face the Supreme Court.
In their resignation letters to the National Assembly speaker, MQM MNAs Haider Abbas Rizvi, Syed Tayyab Hussain, Fauzia Ejaz and Nadeem Ahsan cited “personal reasons” for their decision to quit. The speaker notified the ECP after accepting their resignations effective from November 29 this year.
The seats vacated by the MQM legislators will remain vacant. “By-elections cannot be held on the vacant seats with less than 120 days to go before the incumbent parliament’s constitutional term expires,” ECP Secretary Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan told The Express Tribune.
The question that now arises is over the fate of 12 other legislators, in both the NA and provincial assemblies, who did not submit affidavits regarding their nationality by the November 30 deadline. “Their cases will be sent to the Supreme Court,” Khan said.
The ECP secretary emphasised that the court would judge as to whether these 12 members can continue to hold office. Whether they will ever get another shot at contesting elections is also in question.
“The court can declare that these members were not eligible to be elected as parliamentarians at it did in Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s case,” said former senator and law expert SM Zafar while talking to The Express Tribune. He added that the court can ask the resigned members to revoke the privileges they enjoyed as legislators for the last four and a half years.
In any case, all 16 members, including the MQM MNAs, will have to revoke any foreign nationality before contesting the next elections.
The ECP secretary said that in the future, all contesting candidates will have to declare their nationality at the time of filing their nomination papers. “We have included nationality clauses in the nomination papers for all future elections,” said Khan.
The ECP secretary added that all submitted replies will be scrutinised from Monday (today) onwards. He said a mechanism to verify the authenticity of the submitted replies existed. “The members were asked for attestations from concerned government officers from their areas or ECP offices, besides providing their identity cards,” Khan clarified.
From legislation to advising
While the outgoing legislators have left behind vacant seats, not all have quit politics just yet. Rizvi, who was MQM’s deputy parliamentary leader in the National Assembly, has been appointed as an adviser to the Sindh chief minister, along with his party’s Sindh Assembly MPAs, Muhammad Raza Haroon and Muhammad Ali Shah. Haroon was formerly minister for information technology and Shah the sports minister.
Two Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MPAs who resigned on Saturday also took oath, but as ministers once again rather than advisers. Both Murad Ali Shah and Sadiq Memon returned to their previous portfolios of Finance and Energy, and Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority, respectively. While the reasons for reinstating the MPAs as ministers was unclear, it appeared that the chief minister used his powers to reappoint them citing Article 130-A of the Constitution.
MQM’s Khawaja Izharul Hasan, who was previously an adviser to the chief minister, has also been appointed as minister but has not been assigned a portfolio yet. Rizvi is also yet to receive a portfolio.
Dual Nationality Bill
Several parties, including government allies, said they would not support the Dual Nationality Bill when it was tabled in the Senate for voting. Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid, Awami National Party and some senators from the ruling PPP opposed the government’s attempt to provide a legal cover to dual nationality holders.
The ANP walked out of the Senate when the bill was tabled, saying parliamentarians should not be dual nationality holders. The bill was referred to a parliamentary committee from where it was scheduled to hit the upper house for voting in the last Senate session, but it could not for lack of a majority.
(WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY SAMEER MANDHRO IN KARACHI)
Published in The Express Tribune, December 3rd, 2012.
Deepening crisis: Dual national legislators to face court says ECP – The Express Tribune
ISLAMABAD:
Even as four Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) lawmakers resigned over the dual nationality row, more vacant seats are now in sight in the National Assembly. The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) secretary said on Sunday that those who have still not submitted affidavits regarding their nationality status will have to face the Supreme Court.
In their resignation letters to the National Assembly speaker, MQM MNAs Haider Abbas Rizvi, Syed Tayyab Hussain, Fauzia Ejaz and Nadeem Ahsan cited “personal reasons” for their decision to quit. The speaker notified the ECP after accepting their resignations effective from November 29 this year.
The seats vacated by the MQM legislators will remain vacant. “By-elections cannot be held on the vacant seats with less than 120 days to go before the incumbent parliament’s constitutional term expires,” ECP Secretary Ishtiaq Ahmed Khan told The Express Tribune.
The question that now arises is over the fate of 12 other legislators, in both the NA and provincial assemblies, who did not submit affidavits regarding their nationality by the November 30 deadline. “Their cases will be sent to the Supreme Court,” Khan said.
The ECP secretary emphasised that the court would judge as to whether these 12 members can continue to hold office. Whether they will ever get another shot at contesting elections is also in question.
“The court can declare that these members were not eligible to be elected as parliamentarians at it did in Interior Minister Rehman Malik’s case,” said former senator and law expert SM Zafar while talking to The Express Tribune. He added that the court can ask the resigned members to revoke the privileges they enjoyed as legislators for the last four and a half years.
In any case, all 16 members, including the MQM MNAs, will have to revoke any foreign nationality before contesting the next elections.
The ECP secretary said that in the future, all contesting candidates will have to declare their nationality at the time of filing their nomination papers. “We have included nationality clauses in the nomination papers for all future elections,” said Khan.
The ECP secretary added that all submitted replies will be scrutinised from Monday (today) onwards. He said a mechanism to verify the authenticity of the submitted replies existed. “The members were asked for attestations from concerned government officers from their areas or ECP offices, besides providing their identity cards,” Khan clarified.
From legislation to advising
While the outgoing legislators have left behind vacant seats, not all have quit politics just yet. Rizvi, who was MQM’s deputy parliamentary leader in the National Assembly, has been appointed as an adviser to the Sindh chief minister, along with his party’s Sindh Assembly MPAs, Muhammad Raza Haroon and Muhammad Ali Shah. Haroon was formerly minister for information technology and Shah the sports minister.
Two Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MPAs who resigned on Saturday also took oath, but as ministers once again rather than advisers. Both Murad Ali Shah and Sadiq Memon returned to their previous portfolios of Finance and Energy, and Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority, respectively. While the reasons for reinstating the MPAs as ministers was unclear, it appeared that the chief minister used his powers to reappoint them citing Article 130-A of the Constitution.
MQM’s Khawaja Izharul Hasan, who was previously an adviser to the chief minister, has also been appointed as minister but has not been assigned a portfolio yet. Rizvi is also yet to receive a portfolio.
Dual Nationality Bill
Several parties, including government allies, said they would not support the Dual Nationality Bill when it was tabled in the Senate for voting. Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid, Awami National Party and some senators from the ruling PPP opposed the government’s attempt to provide a legal cover to dual nationality holders.
The ANP walked out of the Senate when the bill was tabled, saying parliamentarians should not be dual nationality holders. The bill was referred to a parliamentary committee from where it was scheduled to hit the upper house for voting in the last Senate session, but it could not for lack of a majority.
(WITH ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY SAMEER MANDHRO IN KARACHI)
Published in The Express Tribune, December 3rd, 2012.
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Only in Pakistan:
Dunya News: Pakistan:-4 MQM MNAs resign, Haider Rizvi becomes SA to CM...
Well, so much for the 'hubbul watni' lectures by Haider Abbas Rizvi. He always said about patriotism and the likes, but now when given a choice between dual nationality and being MNA, he chose dual nationality!!! And now, he gets to be equal to a provincial minister, even though he resigned from assembly!
Akhir bhag kar kaheen to jana hai na!
Dunya News: Pakistan:-4 MQM MNAs resign, Haider Rizvi becomes SA to CM...
Well, so much for the 'hubbul watni' lectures by Haider Abbas Rizvi. He always said about patriotism and the likes, but now when given a choice between dual nationality and being MNA, he chose dual nationality!!! And now, he gets to be equal to a provincial minister, even though he resigned from assembly!
Akhir bhag kar kaheen to jana hai na!
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Wrong title , misleading threads are created on PDF which is fast becoming PTIDF
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You might wanna elaborate on this?
Didn't these MNA's resign?
Weren't they made special advisors?
Didn't they not submit their dossiers?
And how does PTI come into this?
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Please do not say anything to MQM as they are poor people and belong to middle class
Plus they are anti feudal too!!!
These people went into exile in 90's due to army failed, biased , wrong & one sided operation to fail a political party ... they came from middle class and live amoungst them stil yet .. you kids are so jealous after years and years of tries no one can break MQM and let me tell you FAILURE is your destiny no matter how hard you try !!
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Poor, MidClass, DUAL NATIONAL ... interesting 
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So what is stopping them from relinquishing British nationality now?
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Army and intelligence agencies are on record confirming that the whole jinnahpur was a drama , they killed and jailed thousands , this was just a decade ago , afterwards the sympathetic goons of our establishment are full time at war with MQM in the city - they need a back up and shouldnt give up their dual natioinalities under any scenario .. To give up our agencies or rouge agents in our agencies have to stop supporting these terror groups. Than why do they need dual nationalisty ofcourse wil relinquish
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Exactly...
Fair enough, but the only problem now is that these guys will not be able to contest elections.
Works for me..
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It is not as simple as you are portraying so I will just leave it here.
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MQM will line up another candidate as people come from the constituency these people will stay or go does not matter , seats inkay baap ki jageer nahi it belong to the people of Karachi.
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ARMY made MQM to defeat PPP, ARMY give MQM a breathing life line and increase its popularity by making the nazim system under Musharraf era! and as for "on the record" going and saying jinnahpur was a drama then please let's talk about "on the record" events like 12th May when waseem akhtar was Home minister, as well as on the record let's talk about asghar khan case & the so called people who went on the record and claimed that MQM took money.
On the record we have confessions from people like sharukh khan who stated he is a MQM target shooter.
what else do you want on the record? you can't chose one man's claim as on the record and ignore anothers!
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