Hours before the CM Punjab election, the Pakistan
Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) provincial ministers have started to vacate
government offices, sources said on Friday.
Provincial ministers Hassan Murtaza, Malik Ahmed Khan, Rana Iqbal and others
have started to vacate govt offices and residences, sources said.
It may be noted that the former president and Pakistan Peoples Party
co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari held a long meeting with PML-Q chief Chaudhry
Shujaat Hussain to get support for the Punjab CM election, but his efforts
went in vain.
A crucial session of the Punjab Assembly (PA) for the election of the
provincial chief minister (CM) will be held today (Friday) at 4pm under the
chairmanship of Deputy Speaker Dost Mazari.
According to details, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has a clear
majority in the Punjab Assembly, with Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi now most likely
to replace Hamza Shahbaz Sharif as the new chief minister of the province.
