State Minister Amir Liaquat resigns Updated at 1525 PST

ISLAMABAD: State Minister for Religious Affairs Dr. Amir Liaquat Hussain has resigned from National Assembly seat and ministerial office.

He has tendered resignation due to personal reasons, sources said.

Dr. Amir Liaquat has handed over his resignation to the Speaker National Assembly.


source: http://thenews.jang.com.pk/updates.asp?id=25407

Last I saw of him was yesterday about the Lal Masjid issue, and he called on them to embrace Islam in its right spirit and give up, etc.. I don't think his resignation has to do with this issue.. maybe he wants to devote more time to his TV show?

has he left mqm with it? or is he still a part of mqm?

he would have gained more credibility if he had left MQM...

I thought the guy was a fake doctor? I read that somewhere.

never knew he was in mqm.. and yeah heard he has a fake degree

ISLAMABAD / KARACHI, July 4: Dr Aamir Liaquat Hussain, the minister of state for religious affairs, on Wednesday resigned his office as well as his National Assembly seat on the orders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), sources in the party told Dawn.

The sources said Dr Aamir had submitted his resignation to Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain.

The sources said the party had taken ‘this extreme decision’ after taking note of the minister’s ‘hard line and controversial statements’ on Salman Rushdie and the Lal Masjid stand-off.

Earlier this week, Aamir Liaquat said during a television interview that Salman Rushdie should be killed for blaspheming the Holy Prophet (pbuh) in his book, Satanic Verses.

The sources said since the MQM felt the statement was in conflict with the party’s policy, Dr Aamir was asked to resign. However, in his resignation letter, he stated that he was resigning because of ‘personal reasons’.

Moreover, the sources said, the minister had been unable to ‘serve his constituents’ and was not giving ‘sufficient time’ to his constituency.

They said the party had been receiving complaints against Dr Aamir for the past few months, but had not taken any action only because he was the son of Sheikh Liaquat Hussain, an MQM stalwart.

Dr Aamir is the fifth MQM MNA to have been asked to tender resignation since the 2002 election.

The four others were: Sarkaruddin (NA-240), Sultan Ahmed Khan (NA-243), Haji Azizullah Brohi (NA-246) and Shamim Akhtar (elected on women’s quota).

A source close to the MQM said one probable reason for

Aamir Liaquat’s resignation was that as he was expected to take up a new assignment as the head a television channel, the party concluded that he would not be able to serve voters in his constituency.

http://dawn.com/2007/07/05/top8.htm

no one can go agaisnt the wishes of the "peer" from london!

Thats good

Now we will be having new state minister

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haha and i am not surprised!

"Quaid Bhai" ke phat gaye when one of his members said "Rushdie should be killed" because "Quaid Bhai" himself is under the protection of people who knighted him. Maybe that's why he wanted to show the british that his party does not have hard liners who are against Rushdie's knigthhood.

Dr Aamir purchased fake University degrees to contest the 2002 general election, forced the Karachi University officials to authenticate these degrees in a single day and prevented any investigations by the newspaper to dig deep into the unavailable records at the University.

http://www.accountancy.com.pk/forum/...71&whichpage=1

MQM parliamentarian and minister of state for religious affairs Dr. Aami Liaqat has allegedly purchased fake degrees of Masters in Islamic Studies, Masters in Business Administration and PhD from 'The Trinity College and University, Spain which is an unrecognized university, besides the university is not included in the list of recognized international universities available with Karachi University, reports Karachi based Urdu Daily.



http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.shtml?96981

Here is a link to trinity college

http://www.trinityeducation.com/

it says no attendance required

How Much Does it Cost?

Bachelors Degree
£125 (US$240)

Bachelors Degree with Honours*
£150 (US$290)

Masters*
£195 (US$375)

Doctorate*
£295 (US$575)

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After Monday and Tuesday even the calendar says W T F!!!!

Laholwilla!

And MQM and others want people like Imran Khan out of the NA

and he is doing a program "alim-on-line" on Islam!

thanks to the media all these bastar..s and hypocrites are exposed!

we wont let them destroy pakistan or brain-wash our children anymore!

he did some good programms on Geo tv ! .. especially in Ramadan .. and he is a good speaker ..

i hope mqm gets kicked from Pak .. with their TRAITOR quaid

after being a minister for so many years, he suddenly realised that he was NOT giving enuf time to his constituency! fake credentials, fake minister, fake claims!