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Capital Development Authority (CDA) and Islamabad police on Saturday launched an operation to free Parliament Lodges from former members of the parliament who were illegally dwelling in the government-owned facility, DawnNewsTV reported.
According to the authorities' list, 119 ex-lawmakers were illegally occupying the lodges, of which 30 have been evicted.
CDA today managed to free up the lodges allotted to former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former MQM-P convener Farooq Sattar, former federal minister Sheikh Aftab Ahmed, Qaumi Watan Party Chairman Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao as well as Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party chief Mehmood Khan Achakzai.
Malik Asad Sikandar, Bilal Virk, Raza Hayat Hiraj and Syed Ali Hasan Gilani's governmental residences have also been evicted.
However, Tallal Chaudhry and Abid Sher Ali — both PML-N politicians who lost their seats in last month's polls — have not yet vacated the lodges that were allotted to them when they were still members of the parliament.
All the former parliamentarians, who had not been re-elected in the recently held elections, were given a deadline of July 31 to vacate their lodges.
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Aug 11, 2018 07:36pm
All those who failed to vacate the residence, should pay rent for their overstay and also cover the cost associated with their eviction.
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Aug 11, 2018 07:37pm
I pity those who voted for these politicians. I guess ignorance is a bliss
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Aug 11, 2018 07:51pm
Throw their stuff out and get the lodges cleaned from their dirt. These are the properties of poor tax payers.
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Aug 11, 2018 07:53pm
By not vacating the lodges by the assigned deadline it reflects that these so called parliamentarians have no respect for the law of the land and are unfit to be called lawmakers.
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Aug 11, 2018 07:54pm
Unbelievable how thee thieves think they have right to poor tax payers belongings.
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Aug 11, 2018 07:55pm
These thieves have sucked the blood of the poor, they should back every penny.
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Aug 11, 2018 07:56pm
Kick them out
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Aug 11, 2018 07:58pm
All thieves finding it hard to come to term with the reality.
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Aug 11, 2018 08:04pm
Kick them out and charge for overstay
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Aug 11, 2018 08:04pm
What a shame?
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Aug 11, 2018 08:05pm
poor parliamentarians. Got too used to living off our money.
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Aug 11, 2018 08:08pm
They should charge them for over stay
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Aug 11, 2018 08:09pm
Those who have not vacated should be fined @Rs 1 million per day. If they fail, they should be disqualified for 10 years for politics
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Aug 11, 2018 08:20pm
"We will take the last drop of blood from this unfortunate nation".
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Aug 11, 2018 08:21pm
Shame onPMLn politicians.
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Aug 11, 2018 08:22pm
They all should be charged with criminal cases, for illegally occupying the government property. They all should have evicted this within 24 hours of the dissolution of the national assembly, not by 30th of July.
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Aug 11, 2018 08:23pm
Wow. Talk about free loaders.
Thank you for naming these shameless persons.
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Aug 11, 2018 08:27pm
This is no better than corruption. They should be made pay the rent or otherwise the administration should sell their belonging to recover the amount.
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Aug 11, 2018 08:40pm
What do they mean by evicted? Were they kicked out? or was their stuff thrown out on the road?
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Aug 11, 2018 08:41pm
Just says it all really.
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Aug 11, 2018 08:48pm
Charge them with additional penalties if they have not vacated on time. This will show if people have rejected them they don’t have any right to use their hard earned tax money.
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Aug 11, 2018 08:48pm
Shame. Those people want to be in the parliament only for their selfish vested interests including perks and privileges, power and corruption. They have no interest in serving the public.
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Aug 11, 2018 08:49pm
It is very shameful to say that after election defeats, some so called politicians didn't vacate the occupied apartments and had to be kicked out. Where is integrity of these disgraced politicians? As such people are black sheep of our society and their days are numbers!
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Aug 11, 2018 09:00pm
Law has to merciless against these illegal occupiers.
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Aug 11, 2018 09:02pm
Height of arrogance and stubbornness. They still can’t understand what has happened on 25th july.
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Aug 11, 2018 09:13pm
Whats the problem with these guys, why they had to be evicted?
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Aug 11, 2018 09:38pm
All errant ex-parliamentarians should be made to pay for their unauthorized overstay in Parliament Lodges. These lodges are not anybody's ancestral property.
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Aug 11, 2018 09:55pm
Just goes to show why people of Pakistan rejected them this year.
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Aug 11, 2018 10:08pm
@Zulfiqar they know what happened. They are shameless people. They should pay the rent and all expenses of evictions.
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Aug 11, 2018 10:21pm
There needs to be a heavy penalty for not vacating, these people no longer work(if you want to call it) for the government of Pakistan, they are civilians. Not only should they be penalized, there should be a compounding high interest on the balance they owe, daily. I promise you they fly out of there if they have to pay even a single paisa.Free loaders.
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Aug 11, 2018 11:01pm
Please respect the default agency ruler of the country and its network that never allowed transparency and law of the country prevailed.
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Aug 11, 2018 11:35pm
They should set example and principles. That is very awful to hear the Pakistani Ex Prime minister getting evicted.
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Aug 12, 2018 12:11am
Any one in disobedience of law is guilty. In North America you cannot leave your car parked at a designated spot longer than the time limit specified. If you exceed the time limit, you get a fine of anywhere between $100- $500 to be paid in 15 days. If you fail to pay the fine in15 days, the amount is doubled with a notice of issuing arrest warrants against you. Until paid in full, the amount of fine won’t stop from rocketing up.
At the end of the day, such enforcement of law works best in the interest of every one as well as the nation. It enhances law, discipline, safety and security of all. Besides generating revenues for the government machinery, it promotes a win-win situation. Billions of Rupees could be retrieved form the pockets of those evictees in penalties plus unlawful overstaying charges.
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Aug 12, 2018 12:15am
They have no respect at all for the law of the land. They should be made to pay to set a precedent.
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Aug 12, 2018 12:43am
@Zulfiqar infact they are just a bunch of criminals...
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Aug 12, 2018 12:45am
Their reluctance to leave after people have spoken only proved their disregards for the people and nation. It is good that they were voted out.
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Aug 12, 2018 01:01am
The official residences are expensive to maintain and overstay of MPs and ministers are a problem. There should only be one official house for the president, and PM all others should be given a fixed amount for their rent. If ministers and MPs want a more expensive residence, they should pay the difference from their pocket. This way the government will not pay for the upkeep and overstay would not be a problem. The government will simply stop paying the rent. Further, the president and PM would not be allowed declare their house as an official residence. The government would not spend a penny on the improvement of safety or upkeep of the private property.
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Aug 12, 2018 02:06am
These poor people will become HOMELESS
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Aug 12, 2018 02:13am
Perhaps it would be fair to charge them commercial rent from the date they lost the right to use them legitimately. Of course they would be reluctant to do so because their objectives are to use this nation for their personal interests and cannot see anything wrong, illegal or immoral in doing so and that is our national tragedy so far in its short history.
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Aug 12, 2018 02:24am
Throw them out and bill them for overstaying with heavy penalties and cost of eviction
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Aug 12, 2018 02:46am
I feel sorry for Mr. Abbasi who lost his identity and elections by accepting the patron-ship of being Mian Nawaz Sharif's hand picked appointee to the position of acting PM after Nawaz's removal from office.
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Aug 12, 2018 03:49am
Expect this conduct every five years after major election!
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Aug 12, 2018 03:51am
Shameless Politicians, They should vacate premises as soon as their Government term ends. This shows the real mentality of the previous ruling lot.
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Aug 12, 2018 04:16am
evict them and make the pay a hefty bill for eviction and rent
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Aug 12, 2018 04:30am
Throw their belongings out on the street
These crooks do not deserve any generous treatment
Also send them bill for overstaying
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Aug 12, 2018 05:01am
Naya pakistan....small steps go a long way...small savings will bring a change in the bigger picture IA
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Aug 12, 2018 05:28am
Most shameful of all for former PMLN prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, breaking the rules himself instead of setting a good example and having to be evicted. Tsk Tsk.
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Aug 12, 2018 05:30am
Why do these guys get the lodges in the first place.. Imran Khan should sell of all the lodges and MNA’s and all government serpents should live a simple life and as we are a consumer society we have to start living below our means if we were to survive.
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Aug 12, 2018 06:00am
Maybe time to get rid of all lodges and turn them into something useful and MNAs can live at their own expense wherever. We are not really a rich country to be giving elected officials mansions to live in and servants to serve them
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Aug 12, 2018 06:05am
These thugs must be evicted, charged rent for occupation period with fines.
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Aug 12, 2018 06:30am
Farooq Sattar is perhaps playing double agent role . Don’t trust this guy at all .
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Aug 12, 2018 07:04am
What to say of them. Our ex parlimentarins also needs police operation to vacate their suits.
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Aug 12, 2018 07:18am
It appears as if these people have no shame, dignity or any self-respect at all.
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Aug 12, 2018 07:23am
Wait why were we (the tax payers) affording thier housing in the first place ? What government pays their MNAs housing etc they get a paycheck thats thier problem where to live not the governments !! The government should liquidate all that properties and only be responsible for the Pres and PM
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Aug 12, 2018 07:35am
Throw them out by force.
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Aug 12, 2018 08:24am
@LL
No, no need to pitty such voters who sell their souls and vote over and over for these crooks. Actually, area of such voters water n electricity needs to be disconnected for them to suffer more.
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Aug 12, 2018 01:09pm
Talal is not used to decency. He needs to be kicked out and his belongings confiscated.
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