President Arif Alvi has accepted the resignation of Azam Swati as federal minister for science and technology, said a notification dated January 9.The resignation has been accepted with effect from December 6, 2018, the notification added.
The Supreme Court has been hearing a case against Swati pertaining to the transfer of Islamabad IGP Jan Muhammad.
A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar had taken suo motu notice of Islamabad IGP Jan Muhammad’s abrupt transfer. The IGP was transferred on October 27 after he allegedly refused to take action on a complaint filed by Swati’s son regarding a fight over purported encroachment with a family at their farmhouse. The top court is also conducting Swati’s trial under Article 62(1)(f) of the constitution on charges of holding assets beyond means, under which former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and Jahangir Tareen were disqualified.
Published in Daily Times, January 11th 2019.
