PESHAWAR: Twenty ministers of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) caretaker cabinet have tendered their resignations following the directives of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP.
The ministers, mostly from PDM parties, have sent their resignations to the caretaker chief minister (CM) following the ECP’s directives after they were found involved in running their own election campaign despite being appointed as caretaker ministers.
The ministers, who stepped down from their positions included Masood Shah, Abdul Haleem Qasuriya, Irshad Qaiser, Muhammad Ali Shah, Hidayatullah, Salma Begum, Riaz Anwar, Pir Haroon Shah, Sheraz Akram, Malik Meher Elahi, Hamid Shah, Bakht Nawaz, Haji Ghufran, Fazal Elahi, Taj Muhammad, Himayatullah, Zafar Mahmood and Rehmat Salam Khattak.
The Election Commission had directed the ministers to submit their resignations after disclosure of their political affiliations with different parties.
