PPP nominates Khursheed Shah for Speaker slot

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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) on Saturday nominated senior party leader Syed Khursheed Shah for the slot of National Assembly Speaker.

Khursheed Shah will be the joint opposition’s candidate for the office of speaker. Other major parties in the opposition are the PML-N, the MMA, the ANP and the PkMAP.

PPP leader Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar said that party chairman Bilawal Bhutto had approved Khursheed Shah’s name for the NA speaker’s slot.

Khursheed Shah was elected MNA from Sukkur and he had served as the Leader of the Opposition in the outgoing National Assembly.

Published in Daily Times, August 5th 2018.

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