ISLAMABAD, May 12: Four pro-government senators from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) on Friday resigned from Senate committees in protest against what they termed the government’s indifference to t heir grievances.

However, Senate Chairman Muhammadmian Soomro, when contacted, expressed his ignorance about the development and said that things would take their course as and when they came to his notice.

While addressing a press conference on last Tuesday, Chairman of the Senate committee on states, frontier regions and Northern Areas Hameedullah Jan Afridi, Chairman of the Senate committee on water and power Abdul Malik Qadri and senate committees members Abdul Rashid and Abdul Raziq had threatened to withdraw their support from the government if it continued ignoring them in policy matters and failed to induct one of them in the federal cabinet.

Four of the eight Fata Senators are already in the opposition being part of the MMA.