Islamabad: After serious thinking and consideration over the resignation from Senate, the Adviser to Prime Minister on Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr Asim Hussain finally decides on Tuesday to resign from his post of Senate for having dual nationality of Canada.
Following the decision by Supreme Court against dual national parliamentarians, Asim Hussain was seriously thinking to resign as Election commission of Pakistan was directed to take action against such parliamentarians who have dual nationality.
The close friend of President Asif Ali Zardari resigned from the post before any kind of proceedings against him gets started.
It is to relevant to mention here that the secretary Election commission had already clarified that dual nationality holders cannot be parliamentarians in Pakistan while Supreme Court also directed secretaries to take fresh declarations from parliamentarians, testifying that they do not hold dual nationality.