August 11, 2006	Friday	Rajab 15, 1427

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ISLAMABAD, Aug 10: People’s Party Parliamentarians (PPP) MNA and a constitutional expert Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan has claimed that the ministers of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) who had submitted their resignations are required to take a fresh oath as they can not perform their duties as ministers according to the constitution.

Talking to a group of reporters at the Parliament House cafeteria on Thursday, the PPP MNA said that according to Article 92(3) of the Constitution, a minister stood resigned soon after submitting his resignation to the president or the governor and there was no provision for accepting or rejecting the resignation.

Mr Ahsan said all the actions being taken by the MQM ministers after submitting their resignations were illegal. Similarly, he said, the MQM minister belonging to the Senate could not attend the National Assembly session as he would be considered a stranger in the house.

He said the opposition would lodge its protest whenever any MQM senator minister attended the National Assembly session.

The PPP leader said that the whole nation knew that Federal Minister for Communications Shamim Ahmed Siddiqui had himself visited the Camp Office in Rawalpindi to submit the resignations of the MQM ministers to President Gen Pervez Musharraf.