ISLAMABAD: The Senate dropped on Monday a controversial resolution urging the government to “extend facilities of VIPs” to all former members of parliament, their spouses and children, after three movers wrote letters to the chairman requesting him to remove their names from it. The other six movers were not present at the time the agenda item was taken up. “This House recommends that the government may extend usual facilities of VIPs to all ex-members of Majlis-i-Shoora (parliament) of Pakistan, including the gratis/blue passports to their spouses and children,” reads the resolution that was dropped in anticipation of public criticism of the move. Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani informed the...
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