Lord Nazir 'extremely disappointed' over untrue report by UK committee
LONDON – British-Pakistan Lord Nazir Ahmad, who recently retired from
the UK’s House of Lords, has expressed extreme “disappointment” over
the report prepared the conduct committee of the House with a conclusion
that the member should be expelled as he was found guilty of breaching
the code of conduct. Nazir Ahmed, who was first Muslim, Kashmiri
and Pakistani appointed in the House of Lords, announced his retirement
on November 14 and it was also approved by under the House of Lords
Reform Act 2014. Following his announcement of retirement, the
conduct committee said that it had recommended the expulsion of the
longest serving Muslim member of the House of Lords. The committee said, “Lord Ahmed resigned from the House of Lords on
November 14 but the report, which was agreed by the committee and seen
by Lord Ahmed before that date, recommends that he should have been
expelled.” The nine-member committee released a report after
decided an appeal filed by Ahmed against findings of the House’s
Commissioner for Standards into allegations which also include sexual
misconduct with a member of the public in 2017.
The committee has turned down the appeal and upheld the findings of the commissioner that Ahmed violated the code of conduct.
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