Journalist Najam Sethi is Punjab caretaker chief minister
Wednesday March 27, 2013 11:43:39 AM,
IANS
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Islamabad: Well
known journalist Najam Sethi has been nominated to lead the
caretaker government in Pakistan's biggest province Punjab.
Rana Sanaullah, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, said
his party had accepted Sethi's nomination made by the rival
Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), reports Xinhua.
Sethi appears on a prominent current affairs show on Geo
television.
He is also the editor-in-chief of The Friday Times, a political
weekly, and previously has been editor of English newspaper Daily
Times and Daily Aajkal, an Urdu language newspaper.
According to Associated Press of Pakistan, Sethi's nomination
happened about two hours before the deadline Tuesday -- the third
and last day for a parliamentary committee to reach a consensus on
the matter.
President Asif Ali Zardari felicitated Sethi.
In his message, the president said the nomination was a testimony
to the confidence and support extended to him for his ideals and
values.
Shortly after his nomination, Sethi told Geo television that he
will ensure transparent elections in the province.
He said he will approach the Election Commission and will extend
his full support to the panel.
The parliamentary committee in Punjab earlier failed to reach a
consensus and the members even announced to refer the matter to
the Election Commission.
However, later, PML-N chief and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif
intervened and the committee was summoned again. His party agreed
on the name of Sethi.
With his nomination, the process of forming caretaker governments
has been completed in four provinces and in Islamabad.
Sethi graduated from the Government College University in Lahore.
He received a Master's degree in economics at Cambridge
University, and spent two more years there at Clare College as a
PhD research student.
Sethi won the 1999 International Press Freedom Award of the
US-based Committee to Protect Journalists and the 2009 World
Association of Newspapers Golden Pen of Freedom Award.
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