Parliamentary committee meeting on caretaker PM appointment underway

ISLAMABAD: The meeting of the eight member parliamentary committee formed to reach a consensus on the appointment of the caretaker prime minister is underway.

Sardar Mehtab Abbasi, Khwaja Saad Rafique, Sardar Yaqoob, and Pervez Rashid are representing the opposition, whereas Farooq H Naek, Khurshid Shah, Chaudhry Shujaat, and Ghulam Ahmed Bilour the coalition government.

Ghulam Ahmed Bilour has appointed as the head of the parliamentary committee.

In order to break the stalemate over the issue, it was decided the matter of the appointment would be referred to a parliamentary committee, which would come up with a name within (72 hours) three days.

In case, the parliamentary committee also fails in deciding the name of caretaker prime minister the matter would be referred to the Election Commission of Pakistan, which would decide the name within two days.

The government has nominated Dr Ishrat Husain and Justice (retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso, while the PML-N has finalized the names of Justice (retd) Nasir Aslam Zahid and Rasool Bux Palijo for the post of caretaker prime minister.