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PPP leaders pick Makhdoom Shahabuddin as new
PM
Wednesday June 20, 2012 02:44:05 PM,
IANS
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Islamabad: The
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) senior leaders picked Minister for
Textiles Makhdoom Shahabuddin for the office of the prime minister
following the ouster of Yousuf Raza Gilani, media reports said
Wednesday.
Sources told Geo News that the decision was taken at a meeting of
senior leaders of the PPP held late Tuesday under the chairmanship
of President Asif Ali Zardari.
The meeting also decided that a session of the National Assembly
would be summoned Thursday to elect the leader of the house.
Shahabuddin is a member of the National Assembly from Rahim Yar
Khan district in Punjab province.
However, Gilani expressed reservations over the name of
Shahabuddin during the meeting of coalition partners, who
entrusted Zardari to nominate the new prime minister.
Media reports said there were two strong contenders for the post
of prime minister -- Minister for Water and Power Chaudhry Ahmad
Mukhtar and Shahabuddin. Mukhtar was formerly the defence
minister.
The name of Zardari's sister Faryal Talpur was also mentioned at
the PPP meeting held Tuesday night.
Dawn News said Zardari recommended the names of Mukhtar,
Shahabuddin, Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar and Religious
Affairs Minister Khursheed Shah for the post.
However, the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid-e-Azam (PML-Q) had
reservations on nominating Mukhtar.
The Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that Gilani stood disqualified as
prime minister as well as member of parliament since the apex
court's April 26 verdict holding him in contempt of court for
refusing to write to the Swiss authorities to reopen corruption
cases against Zardari.
A three-member bench led by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad
Chaudhry heard a set of constitutional petitions challenging
National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza's ruling that despite
conviction for contempt of court Gilani could continue as the
prime minister.
A seven-member bench of the apex court had convicted Gilani April
26 of contempt of court. The court, however, sentenced him only
"until the rising of the court", or till the time the judges left
the court chamber. That was only for about 30 seconds after the
verdict was handed down.
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