Parliamentary Committee picks Najam Sethi as caretaker CM Punjab

HeadlinesParliamentary Committee picks Najam Sethi as caretaker CM Punjab

LAHORE: A six-member parliamentary committee of the Punjab Assembly on Tuesday reached a consensus to select senior journalist Najam Sethi as the caretaker chief minister of Punjab province, Dispatch News Desk (DND) reported.

The committee’s decision was announced by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and parliamentary committee’s head Rana Sanaullah while talking to the media.

The parliamentary committee reached consensus on the third and final day of consultative sessions, and announced its decision hours before the midnight deadline.

Najam Sethi has earlier served as a federal minister in the caretaker setup led by Malik Meraj Khalid in 1996.

In the committee meeting, the ruling PML-N was represented by former ministers Rana Sanaullah, Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman and Iqbal Chunnar, while the opposition PPP and PML-Q was represented by Shaukat Basra, Zulfiqar Gondal and Chaudhry Zaheer.

The PML-N proposed names of Justice (retd) Amir Raza Khan and former bureaucrat Khuwaja Zaheer while the opposition suggested names of senior journalist and political commentator, Najam Sethi, and Justice (retd) Zahid Hussain.

DND

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