The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) on Monday finalised three names to be nominated for the posts of caretaker prime minister (PM) and Punjab chief minister (CM).
PTI Spokesman Fawad Chaudhry confirmed that the party had finalised Justice (r) Tassaduq Hussain Jillani, industrialist Abdur Razzaq Dawood and former State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) governor Ishrat Hussain for the caretaker prime minister.
Dawood, a politician and industrialist, served as commerce minister in Pervez Musharraf’s cabinet from 1999 to 2002. Jillani served as the 21st CJP from December 12, 2013, to July 5, 2014. Ishrat Hussain is a Pakistani banker and economist who served as the dean of Institute of Business Administration (IBA) and the governor SBP from 1999 to 2006.
According to the party, Shah Mehmood Qureshi has been entitled with the responsibility to present the names to Leader of the Opposition in National Assembly Khursheed Shah, who is responsible for forwarding opposition nominees for the position to the prime minister.
For the position of caretaker Punjab chief minister, PTI will nominate Salman Shah, Shahid Hafeez Kardar and Tariq Khosa.
Shah was the former caretaker finance minister and has served as an advisor to the former finance minister Shaukat Aziz on finance, economic affairs, statistics and revenue. Kardar is a Pakistani banker who served as the 16th governor of SBP.
Khosa served as the director general of the Federal Investigation Agency in 2009, and co-chair of the Governance Committee of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) country programme from 2010-2014.
PTI’s Mehmoodur Rasheed will submit the nominations after meeting opposition parties.
The present government will conclude its five-year term on May 31, after which the caretaker setup will be put in place to hold elections, expected in July or the first week of August.
