PM meets ministers, allies ahead of Senate chairman election
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March 11, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Just ahead of the crucial election of the Senate chairman and deputy chairman, Prime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday held a meeting with leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) coalition parties.
The meeting was attended by Minister for Defence Production Zubaida Jalal, MNA Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Minister for Housing Tariq Bashir Cheema, Defence Minister Pervaiz Khattak, Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood, Information Minister Shibli Faraz and Planning Minister Asad Umar.
Current political situation in the country and coalition issues were discussed during the meeting, says a statement issued by PM Office. The ruling coalition parties expressed full confidence in the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan. The forum reiterated full support for PM’s decision on chairman and deputy chairman.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) dismissed an application filed by the ruling PTI seeking disqualification of former prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and notified his victory in the recent elections for the upper house of parliament
Top Story
March 11, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Just ahead of the crucial election of the Senate chairman and deputy chairman, Prime Minister Imran Khan Wednesday held a meeting with leaders of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) coalition parties.
The meeting was attended by Minister for Defence Production Zubaida Jalal, MNA Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Minister for Housing Tariq Bashir Cheema, Defence Minister Pervaiz Khattak, Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood, Information Minister Shibli Faraz and Planning Minister Asad Umar.
Current political situation in the country and coalition issues were discussed during the meeting, says a statement issued by PM Office. The ruling coalition parties expressed full confidence in the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan. The forum reiterated full support for PM s decision on chairman and deputy chairman.
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LAHORE: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari speaks to Pakistan Muslim League-Q leaders Chaudhry Shujaat Husain and Chaudhry Pervez Elahi during a meeting on Sunday. Dawn
LAHORE: The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) has expressed its inability to vote for the opposition Pakistan Democratic Movement’s candidate, Yousuf Raza Gilani, in the upcoming election for Senate chairman.
The PML-Q could not go against their coalition partner, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), said the federal Minister for Housing Tariq Bashir Cheema whose party had also remained an ally of the Pakistan Peoples Party when the latter had been in power during 2008-13.
It emerged during a meeting of PML-Q leaders Chaudhry Shujaat Husain and Pervez Elahi with PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari who also separately met PML-Nawaz (PML-N) Punjab president Hamza Shehbaz here on Sunday in an apparent move to open a new front against the ruling PTI.