Home minister resigns
“Today I have decided to resign from my position as the Home Minister. I thank HEP Yamin and others for all their support,” Naseer said in a tweet moments ago.
21 Jun 2016, 9:00 AM
Home Minister Umar Naseer resigned tonight moments after lawyers representing a former minister, sentenced on weapons smuggling charges, claimed police have new and “irrefutable” evidence that proves their client was framed.
Defence counsel for former Defence Minister Mohamed Nazim said tonight that a DNA analysis of the pistol and bullets seized from his residence in January last year links the weapons to then-Tourism Minister Ahmed Adeeb.
The find had led to an 11-year sentence against Nazim.
Minutes after the press conference, Naseer announced his resignation in a Twitter post. He is the eleventh member to leave embattled President Abdulla Yameen’s cabinet.
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