Pakistan National Assembly to elect speaker Monday


Islamabad, Jun 2 (IANS): The Pakistan National Assembly will elect its speaker and deputy speaker Monday while the leader of the house will be elected Wednesday, a media report said Sunday.

Nomination papers for the offices of speaker and deputy speaker are to be delivered Sunday, Geo TV reported.

After Monday's secret ballot, outgoing Speaker Fehmida Mirza will administer the oath to the new speaker.

Nawaz Sharif was Saturday formally nominated the candidate for the prime minister's post by the newly-elected members of parliament of his party.

The first session of the 342-member National Assembly Saturday marked the first phase of transition of power in Islamabad and in the four provinces following the May 11 general election.

  

Top Stories


Leave a Comment

Title: Pakistan National Assembly to elect speaker Monday



You have 2000 characters left.

Disclaimer:

Please write your correct name and email address. Kindly do not post any personal, abusive, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent, discriminatory or unlawful or similar comments. Daijiworld.com will not be responsible for any defamatory message posted under this article.

Please note that sending false messages to insult, defame, intimidate, mislead or deceive people or to intentionally cause public disorder is punishable under law. It is obligatory on Daijiworld to provide the IP address and other details of senders of such comments, to the authority concerned upon request.

Hence, sending offensive comments using daijiworld will be purely at your own risk, and in no way will Daijiworld.com be held responsible.