SIC names Zain Qureshi as NA parliamentary leader

PAKISTAN:

The Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) has named Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed candidate Zain Qureshi as the party’s parliamentary leader in the lower house of parliament.

His name was submitted to National Assembly Speaker Ayaz Sadiq by the SIC leaders.

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Zain is the son of incarcerated PTI Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi.

The PTI-backed independent candidates who had emerged victorious in the February 8 polls had joined SIC as the party was deprived of its iconic ‘bat’ symbol after its intra-party polls were declared null and void.