LAHORE: President Asif Ali Zardari has asked Abdul Qadir Gilani, son of the prime minister, to resign from the chairmanship of a Public Accounts Committee of the Punjab Assembly.
Sources said that during a meeting with Abdul Qadir Gilani on Wednesday President Asif Ali Zardari told him that he wanted to replace him with someone who could “embarrass” the provincial government on different issues in much the same was as the chief of the National Assembly`s accounts committee, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, did the PPP-led federal government.
“Yes I was asked by the party co-chairman to resign and I will follow his instructions,” Mr Gilani told .
He said during his tenure he discharged his responsibilities with dedication. “I even refused to avail the perks and privileges of the office,” he said.
There are two public accounts committees in the assembly. One is headed by Mr Gilani and the other by Opposition Leader Chaudhry Zaheeruddin.
The committee headed by Mr Gilani has as members Makhdoom Ahmad Mahmood, Mahr Ijaz, Khwaja Salman Rafiq, Farrukh Javed, Rana Afzal, Zulfiqar Gondal, Hafeez Akhtar Chaudhry, Shahjehan Bhatti, Mohammad Yar Hiraj, Amir Talal and Mohammad Rizwan.
Both the committees have not been giving a tough time to the PML-N-led provincial government.
