For the establishment of a parliamentary committee to appoint the caretakerPrime Minister, the National Assembly (NA) Speakerlink has written a letterlink to Acting Prime Minister Imran Khanlink and Opposition Leader Shehbazlinklink under Article 224A(1) of theConstitution of Pakistan on Wednesday.
NA Speaker link Asad Qaiser sought thenomination of a total of eight members for the parliamentary committee,four members each from the Acting PM and the OL to appoint the caretaker PM.
According to the Article 224A(1), in case the Prime Minister and the Leaderof the Opposition in the outgoing National Assembly do not agree on anyperson to be appointed as the caretaker Prime Minister, within three daysof the dissolution of the National Assembly, they shall forward twonominees each to a Committee to be immediately constituted by the Speakerlink of the National Assembly, comprisingeight members of the outgoing National Assembly, or the Senate, or both,having equal representation from the Treasury and the Opposition, to benominated by the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Oppositionrespectively.
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As per the same Article’s subclause (3), the Committee constituted underclause (1) or (2) shall finalize the name of the care-taker Prime Ministeror care-taker Chief Minister, as the case may be, within three days of thereferral of the matter to it:
