Daily Times

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Chaudhry Fawad Hussain on Monday said Prime Minister Imran Khan had proposed the name of former chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) Gulzar Ahmed as the caretaker prime minister. Fawad, in a tweet, said the PTI’s Core Committee, which was consulted by PM Imran Khan on the matter, approved the name of ex-CJP. “I propose the name of Justice (retd) Gulzar Ahmed, former chief justice of Pakistan to be considered for appointment as the caretaker prime minister,” reads the letter from the premier to the president. The former CJP’s nomination follows a letter written by President Dr Arif Alvi to the prime minister and Leader of the Opposition in the outgoing National Assembly (NA) Shehbaz Sharif to propose names of suitable persons for appointment as caretaker premier under Article 224-A(1 )of the Constitution. The letter came a day after the NA deputy speaker disallowed a no-trust confidence motion against PM Imran and the president dissolved the lower house of Parliament on the former’s advice. The letter stated that the NA and the federal cabinet had been dissolved under Article 58(1) of the Constitution on Sunday. The president said that PM Imran would continue to hold office until the caretaker premier’s appointment was made under Article 224-A(4) of the Constitution. Alvi told the two that in case they do not agree on the appointment within three days of the dissolution of the NA, they shall forward two nominees each to a committee to be constituted by the speaker, comprising eight members of the outgoing NA, or the Senate, or both, having equal representation from the treasury and the opposition.