LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) leadership has decided to make Senator Sardar Muhammad Yaqoob Khan Nasar the party’s new president, sources disclosed on Wednesday.
Currently, Yaqoob Khan Nasar is a PML-N’s member of the National Assembly from Loralai constituency and also holding the position of PML-N central vice president.
Reports suggest that the formal announcement in this regard would be made in the party’s Central Working Committee meeting in Islamabad on Thursday.
According to reports, Nawaz discussed Nasir’s interim presidency with the senior party leadership at his residence on Wednesday and is said to have received no serious resistance to the proposal.
The senator was first elected in 1985. Nasir is also considered a close aide of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
He had served as a member of Balochistan Assembly and as provincial minister for irrigation, development and public health (from 1985 to 1988).
Earlier, it was being speculated by the sources within the party that the seat of party president will go to either Kalsoom Nawaz or Shehbaz Sharif. But the decision regarding the new president was not final yet.
On August 8, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) notified PML-N that with the disqualification of Nawaz Sharif, the party must elect its new president as according to the Political Parties Order (2002), a disqualified person cannot hold the key party position.
