ISLAMABAD, May 20: President Pakistan Muslim League (PML) Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain on Friday resigned from the post of chairman of the Seventh Wage Board Award sub-committee. Chaudhry Shujaat was made chairman of the sub-committee by the National Assembly’s standing committee on information and broadcasting when it met to discuss grievances of journalists who had been assaulted by police on World Press Freedom Day on May 3.

According to the party’s information secretary and Minister of State for Labour and Overseas Pakistanis Senator Tariq Azim, the PML chief said in a letter to Mrs Rehana Aleem Mashadi, the chairman of the standing committee, that he did not want to continue as chairman of the sub-committee and suggested that the task be assigned to the information minister.

The house committee had asked the sub-committee headed by Chaudhry Shujaat to sort out the wage award issue by holding meetings with representatives of the All Pakistan Newspapers Society and Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists and report back within three weeks.