Four members of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) resigned from the NWFP Assembly on Saturday on the directions of their party. Addressing a news conference in Peshawer, Qari Fayyazur Rehman, the provincial JUI-F president, said his party had expelled the four MPAs – Yasmin Khalid, Rukhsana Raz, Dildar Ahmad and minority member Gor Saran Lal – for violating the party discipline. He said the party took the action because the expelled members didn’t vote for their party’s candidates in the Senate election. He said another Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal provincial leader, Mufti Kifaitullah, was also suspended for three years on his “irresponsible behaviour” in the Senate election. The NWFP Assembly speaker has accepted the resignations and issued a notification in this regard.