ISLAMABAD – Capital Development Authority and Islamabad police on Saturdayforcefully vacated the parliament lodge allotted to the former PM ShahidKhaqan Abbasi.
CDA launched an operation to free Parliament Lodges from former members ofthe parliament who were illegally dwelling in the government-owned facility.
According to the authorities’ list, 119 ex-lawmakers were illegallyoccupying the lodges, of which 30 have been evicted.
CDA on Saturday managed to free up the lodges allotted to former primeminister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former MQM-P convener Farooq Sattar, formerfederal minister Sheikh Aftab Ahmed, Qaumi Watan Party Chairman Aftab AhmadKhan Sherpao as well as Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party chief Mehmood KhanAchakzai, Malik Asad Sikandar, Bilal Virk, Raza Hayat Hiraj and Syed AliHasan Gilani.
However, Talal Chaudhry and Abid Sher Ali — both PML-N politicians who losttheir seats in last month’s polls — have not yet vacated the lodges thatwere allotted to them when they were still members of the parliament.Allthe former parliamentarians, who had not been re-elected in the elections,were given a deadline of July 31 to vacate their lodges.