LAHORE: The Provincial Election Commission will decide the selection of caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab after a six-member parliamentary committee failed to evolve a consensus in this regard, Dispatch News Desk (DND) reported on Tuesday.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Rana Sanaulla told media after the meeting that the committee has decided to refer the issue to the ECP. “We will accept the decision of the Election Commission,” he said.
In the committee, 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.
During three days of talks, the committee deliberated over four nominees for the post of the interim chief minister of Punjab two each by the government and the opposition.
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
