A file photo of Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi. PHOTO: ONLINE
Leader of Opposition in Punjab Assembly Raja Riaz has launched a consultation process with opposition parties, inside and outside the house, and has floated two possible names for the caretaker chief minister of Punjab.
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) delegation led by Riaz on Monday visited Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI) headquarters in Mansoora and met with JI Provincial President Dr Wasim Akhtar. The leaders discussed the details and establishment of a caretaker set-up for Punjab and exchanged two names for the province’s top slot.
PPP suggested the names of Nawab of Bahawalpur Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi and Justice (retd) Arif Mehmood Chaudhry as the caretaker chief minister of Punjab while the JI recommended columnist Dr Safder Mehmood and former Lahore High Court chief justice Mian Allah Nawaz.
Led by Riaz, the PPP delegation comprised Shaukat Mehmood Basra and Maj (retd) Zulfiqar Gondal while the JI delegation included Akhter, Hafiz Salman Butt and Amirul Azeem.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 5th, 2013.
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They are trying to buy out the Nawab by giving him the Caretaker CM post which will not work and he will continue to work on the restoration of Bahawalpur province and we will get it Inshallah. If not than me and brethren will make sure that Bahawalpur is the next Baluchistan. @Antebellum: Jarheads like you will never understand the respect we give to our former nawab family because you never got any and we were free because of the Nawabs while you and your ancestors were liking the boots of the British and Sikhs.
PPP suggested the names of Nawab of Bahawalpur Nawab Salahuddin Abbasi
One feudal party suggesting the name of another feudal! Not surprised.
Who made him Nawab? I thought in Pakistan we had done away with these lot!
Dr Safder Mehmood would be the best choice.