Pakistan to elect new prime minister on Tuesday
30 July 2017 10:50 PM IST
Pakistan's parliament will elect a new prime minister on Tuesday to replace the ousted premier Nawaz Sharif.
The Supreme Court on Friday disqualified 67-year-old Sharif for dishonesty and ruled that corruption cases be filed against him and his children over the Panama Papers scandal, forcing the embattled leader out of office.
President Mamnoon Hussain has summoned National Assembly, the lower house of parliament, on Tuesday at 3:00 PM to elect the new leader of the house.
Separately, the National Assembly Secretariat has announced schedule for election of the new prime minister.
According to a notification, nomination papers can be obtained from the office of the Secretary National Assembly from 3:00 PM on Friday.
The papers will be received till 2:00 PM tomorrow and the Speaker National Assembly will scrutinize the papers at 3:00 PM the same day and announce the list of final candidates.
Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has nominated Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as prime minister for now but later he would make way for Shehbaz Sharif as Prime Minister.
Pakistan has seen such arrangements in the past too.
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