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Five in race for Pakistan PM's post
Thursday June 21, 2012 05:12:41 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: Five
candidates, three from the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and one
each from the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), Thursday filed nomination
papers for the post of prime minister.
PPP candidates Makhdoom Shahabuddin, Raja Pervez Ashraf and Qamar
Zaman Kaira filed their papers ahead of the 2 p.m. deadline, Geo
News reported.
The JUI-F named its chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman while the PML-N
nominated Sardar Mehtab Abbasi as their respective prime
ministerial candidates.
Shahabuddin is a member of the National Assembly from Rahim Yar
Khan, Ashraf from Rawalpindi and Kaira from Gujrat -- all three
places are in Punjab province.
Abbasi is a former chief minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
and current member of the National Assembly from Abbottabad, made
infamous for the hideout of Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden, where
he was killed.
Fazlur Rehman hails from Abdulkhel Banyala area of the Dera Ismail
Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He is a member of the
National Assembly from Bannu.
Shahabuddin thanked President Asif Ali Zardari and greeted party
members of the PPP on the birth anniversary of late Benazir
Bhutto.
"I am thankful from the bottom of my heart (to Zardari). Today is
a special day because it is Benazir Bhutto's birthday and I send
my congratulations on this birthday to all party workers," he
said.
A special session of the National Assembly has been summoned
Friday (June 22) to elect the new prime minister, after Yousuf
Raza Gilani was disqualified by the Supreme Court. Speaker Fehmida
Mirza will chair the proceedings.
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