PA speaker forms committee to appoint caretaker CM

LAHORE, Jun 04 (APP):Speaker Punjab Assembly Rana
Muhammad Iqbal Monday constituted a six-member parliamentary
committee to appoint caretaker chief minister of Punjab.
According to a notification, issued by the assembly
secretariat, the committee comprising Rana Sanaullah Khan,
Malik Ahmad Ali and Khawaja Imran Nazir of Pakistan Muslim
League-Nawaz and Mian Mehmood-ur-Rasheed, Sibtain Khan and
Shoaib Siddiqui of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, would try to
finalise the name of caretaker chief minister within next
two days. And if the committee failed to reach consensus on
a name, the matter would be referred to the Election Commission
of Pakistan (ECP).
The first sitting of the parliamentary committee would
be held on June 6 (Wednesday) at noon.
Earlier, the PML-N and PTI had named their four members
for the parliamentary committee to decide the name of
caretaker chief minister Punjab. The PML-N had proposed two
names, including Justice (retd) Sair Ali and former IG Punjab
Tariq Saleem Dogar, while the PTI had proposed names of Dr
Hassan Askari, Yaqub Izhar, Ayaz Amir and Orya Maqbool Jan
for the slot.