PESHAWAR, March 25: The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (Fazlur Rehman group) on Saturday said that it had cancelled the party membership of four members of the NWFP Assembly for not casting votes in favour of party candidates in the recent Senate polls.

The resignations of Maulana Dildar Ahmad from Kohistan, Gursaran Lal, Rukhsana Raz and Yasmeen Khalid had been forwarded to NWFP Assembly Speaker Bakht Jehan Khan, the party said.

The four MPAs were not available for comments but a family member of one of them said that the party had asked all its members and not just them to submit their resignations.

“The four MPAs have admitted to violating party discipline and tendered resignations,” said Maulana Amanullah, who led a three-member JUI committee to probe into the allegations of horse trading against party members.

“The probe is still in progress and any other member found guilty will face the same fate,” he said at a press conference.

Qari Fayazur Rehman Alvi and Shujaul Mulk were the other two members of the probe committee.

Maulana Amanullah said that membership of the party’s central leader, Mufti Kifayatullah, had also been terminated from three important councils of the JUI and the decision would remain intact for three years.

However, he said, the basic membership of Mufti Kifayatullah, who is district naib nazim of Mansehra, would remain intact.

Mr Alvi said that they had asked the four members to tender their resignations to the committee.