The government of the oil-rich Gulf emirate announced Saturday that Mubarak's resignation, tendered Friday night, had been accepted.

Hours earlier, two Sunni Islamist lawmakers tabled a request to grill her over Thursday's blaze, which killed two patients and injured 19 others, as well as over alleged financial abuses in her ministry and deteriorating health services.

Mubarak made history when she became the first female minister in the conservative Arab state in June 2005, taking the planning and administrative development portfolio, one month after parliament passed a bill granting women political rights.


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