ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker and former law minister Zahid Hamid Friday announced that he will not participate in the upcoming general elections.
“This is my last budget speech. I was elected as Member of the National Assembly (MNA) thrice and have now decided that my son will contest the next elections,” he said during the National Assembly session on Friday. Hamid, who tendered his resignation as law minister in November last year following protests by a religious party, said it has been cleared that he had no role in the controversial amendment to the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat declaration for the electoral candidates.
“Raja Zafarul Haq report into the incident has already been submitted in the Islamabad High Court and the court has shown satisfaction over it. Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has also clarified that I had no role in the entire episode,” he said.
The PML-N lawmaker had resigned from his post after hundreds of protesters camped at Islamabad’s Faizabad interchange for weeks last year calling for his removal over involvement in changes to the Khatm-e-Nabuwwat clause.
Published in Daily Times, May 12th 2018.
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