Pakistan has picked Senator Anwar-Ul-Haq Kakar as the caretaker Prime Minister of the country until a new election later this year.
The former Pakistan PM was serving a seven-year imprisonment at Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail in the Al-Azizia Mills case before he was allowed to proceed to London in 2019 on "medical grounds".
"It has been decided that another round of consultation will be held tomorrow (Friday). Till a name is not finalised no name will be revealed," said opposition leader Raja Riaz after the talks.
"Though there is nothing new in this story, the investigation needs to held to establish the authenticity of the information or source document," Sanaullah tweeted on Thursday.
Although the National Assembly was dissolved as per the constitution, a statement from President Arif Alvi’s office said that he acted upon the instructions from outgoing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. It was dissolved three days prior to the completion five-year term.
Citing "classified documents", the report said the plan was set up on March 7, 2022, when two US State Department officials including Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu with Asad Majeed Khan, was then-Pakistan’s ambassador to the US.
According to the report, the potential candidate had met with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, however, there was no official announcement.
"The president dissolved the National Assembly on the advice of the prime minister under Article 58-1 of the Constitution," read an official statement issued by the President's Office.
Shehbaz Sharif informed Pakistani lawmakers that he will send the summary for the dissolution of the National Assembly to President Arif Alvi tonight.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is set to dissolve the National Assembly today after sending a summary to Pakistan President Arif Alvi. The Assembly is being dissolved three days before the government's tenure.
On Sunday, the Hazara Express train travelling from Karachi to Rawalpindi derailed in Nawabshah district near the Sarhari Railway Station-- 275 kilometres from the provincial capital Karachi.
Earlier on Saturday, Khan was arrested shortly after an Islamabad trial court declared him guilty of “corrupt practices” in the Toshakhana case and sentenced him to three years in prison.
Notably, the caretaker government is appointed in Pakistan after the outgoing Prime Minister and the leader of the Opposition give the nod for it.
"After completing our [coalition govt's] tenure, I will write to the president of Pakistan to dissolve the assembly," said Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Islamabad on Tuesday.
A caretaker Prime Minister is expected to be an impartial person towards any person or political party. However, in some cases, it has been found that caretaker governments have overstepped their boundaries.
Police said miscreants had planted a remote explosive device to target a vehicle carrying Balgatar UC Chairman Ishtiaq Yaqoob and others who were returning from a wedding ceremony.
"Nawaz Sharif will be the next prime minister of Pakistan. He will serve the people as he had done before," said the 71-year-old Shehbaz Sharif.
Under the B-Class, the Khan is entitled to books, newspapers of choice, a table, a chair, a 21-inch television, a mattress, clothing and jail food, in addition to a bathroom facility in the barrack he has been kept in.
The project was initially conceived as an India-Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline, but later, India left it and became a bilateral project between Pakistan and Iran.
Notably, this was not the first time when Pakistan urged India to resume bilateral talks. Earlier in January this year, PM Shehbaz, during an interview with a Dubai-based Television, said that the nation has learned its lesson after three wars with India and that it stressed that now it wants peace.
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