By: Eastern Eye Staff
FORMER JUDGE TO BE CARETAKER LEADER PAKISTAN’S ruling and opposition parties on Monday (28) announced the appointment of a former supreme court chief justice as caretaker prime minister. The selection of Nasir ul Mulk comes days after the country’s president announced that general elections will be held on July 25, setting up what would only be Pakistan’s second-ever democratic transfer of power. “Today is an important day in the democratic history of Pakistan. The name was chosen after consensus was reached,” said prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi during a press conference. “We have chosen a person whose past is very…
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