ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has finalised two names for the Rehbar Committee following the guidelines of the opposition’s all parties’ conference while it could not finalise a name for the Senate chairman’s post.
The opposition parties joint parliamentary meeting was held under the chair of Opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif while Maulana Asad Mahmood and Shahida Akhtar attended the meeting on behalf of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F).
PML-N leaders Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Ahsan Iqbal, Maryam Aurangzeb, Murtaza Javed Abbasi, Rohail Asghar, Khel Das Kohistani participated in the meeting, however there was no representation from the Pakistan People’s Party.
Sources said that the huddle deliberated upon the nominations of the names for the Rehbar Committee and also discussed approval of the budget in the National Assembly and approval of supplementary grants.
Sources added that the PML-N put forward names of Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Ahsan Iqbal for the member of the committee while they did not finalise the name for Chairman Senate. They added that the party was likely to name Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo for the office.
It is pertinent to mention here that on June 26, an All Parties Conference hosted by JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman had decided to constitute a ‘Rehbar Committee’ to devise a joint future line of action. The committee having the representation of all opposition parties would sort out their mutual differences and ensure implementation of the APC decisions.
Talking about the committer after the APC in the presser, Fazlur Rehman had said that the opposition parties will replace Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani through a constitutional procedure. A steering committee – comprising members from all parties – would be mandated to name a joint candidate. “The committee will be called Rehbar Committee, it will implement the APC decisions,” he said.