By the way, Omar Ayub Khan was additionally the joint candidate who misplaced to Imran Khan‘s rival Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) celebration’s Shehbaz Sharif within the prime ministerial election final week.
About 90 candidates of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) joined the SIC after successful within the February 8 common elections as unbiased candidates to safe reserved seats.
The nomination papers have been submitted by Malik Amir Dogar within the presence of SIC supremo Sahibzada Hamid Raza, and members of the nationwide meeting (MNAs) Ali Mohammad Khan, Riaz Fatyana, Dr Nisar Ahmad Jatt and others, the newspaper mentioned.
Achakzai was the PTI-SIC’s candidate towards Pakistan Peoples Celebration (PPP) candidate Asif Ali Zardari, who was on Saturday elected because the president. He took the oath on Sunday.
Responding to a query, Dr Jatt expressed the hope that Ayub would develop into the opposition chief within the NA by way of nomination, as a substitute of election, on March 13 or 14.
The chief of the opposition enjoys the standing of a federal minister. He will get a separate workplace, the place often opposition events maintain conferences.
The Public Accounts Committee is often headed by the chief of the opposition.