Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz President and seven other parties backed candidate Shehbaz Sharif is all set to win the elections of the Prime Minister against the PTI-nominated Omar Ayub Khan, which are scheduled to be held in the National Assembly today (Sunday) at 11am.
IPP leader Aun Chaudhry reached the Parliament House. Amid tight security arrangements inside and outside the Parliament for the National Assembly session as hundreds of Police, Rangers and FC personnel have been deployed.
Vehicles coming to Parliament House allowed to enter after checking and most importantly ordinary visitors are not allowed in the session of the National Assembly.
Both Shehbaz Sharif and the Omar Ayub Khan submitted their nomination papers to the National Assembly Secretariat, which were declared valid by newly-elected Speaker Ayaz Sadiq after the scrutiny process. Overall, eight nomination papers had been submitted by Shehbaz Sharif whereas four papers were submitted by Omar Ayub endorsed with the signatures of different proposers and seconders.
Omar Ayub had raised an objection against Shehbaz Sharif alleged PML-N leader was gifted his NA seat through manipulation in Form-47 and Shehbaz could not contest the PM election because he had ‘lost’ the constituency as per Form-45.
Khan also claimed that PMLN President ‘wrongly’ administered the oath as MNA and thus cannot be a candidate for the prime minister’s position, The objection was rejected.
PML-N Mr Sharif has the support of the PPP, MQM-P, PML-Q, BAP, PML-Z, IPP, and the NP having a total of 205 members while two MNAs-elect from the MQM-P and PPP have yet to take oath.
In order to become the leader of the house, Mr Sharif requires 169 votes in the 336-member house.
PTI-backed opposition has 102 lawmakers, out of which one member has not taken the oath.
Meanwhile, the JUI-F and BNP-Mengal are yet to announce their strategy for the PM polls.
PMLN Information Secretary Maryam Aurangzeb said that journey of development that stopped in 2018 will start again with the return of era of youth employment, business and development.
“Shahbaz Sharif saved Pakistan from default and now he will stabilize the economy,” she said.
She alleged that after four years of ‘brutality’ — Imran Khan’s government — all sectors of the country were destroyed, the process of restoration and reconstruction will begin.
