*ISLAMABAD: Fifty-two members of the previous parliament were on Fridayforced to vacate their official residence at the Parliament Lodges.*

The authorities on Wednesday vacated several rooms as the next session ofthe National Assembly is set to be convened on August 13. The formerparliamentarians had not vacated even thought the assemblies were dissolvedin May.

The list includes several prominent name including Pakistan MuslimLeague-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former state minister Talal Chaudhry, andsenior member of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) Farooq Sattar.

Other prominent names include Pir Amin-ul-Hasanat, Zafarullah Jamali, TahirIqbal, Bilal Virk, Maulana Amir Zaman and Sheikh Aftab Ahmed.

Quami Watan Party (QWP) chief Aftab Sherpao, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party(PkMAP) Mehmood Khan Achakzai, Muzammil Qureshi, Khawaja Suhail, GhulamRabbani Khar, Sardar Jaffar, Jaffar Iqbal, Abdul Ghafoor Dogar, RajaMatloob Mehdi, Shiza Fatima, Sheikh Salahuddin, Zain Elahi have also notvacated their residences.

Capital Development Authority (CDA) district administration launched aoperation to evict the former parliamentarians and vacate theresidences. Police, officials of the CDA enforcement wing, and asub-divisional magistrate were also part of the operation.

They were forced to break down the residences of former members Tahir IqbalChaudhry of the PML-N and Syed Kazim Ali Shah of the Pakistan MuslimLeague-Functional (PML-F).

CDA on Thursday issued a final notice to the occupants of Parliament Lodgesto vacate the property within 24 hours by 9AM on Friday.