PM fields Fata Senator for deputy chairman slot - Newspaper
ISLAMABAD: A day before nail-biting election of chairman and deputy chairman of the Senate, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday finally nominated Mirza Muhammad Afridi as ruling coalition’s candidate for the slot of deputy chairman amid severe resentment in the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI). Interestingly, the prime minister took the decision before presiding over a meeting of the PTI core committee and only informed the participants that he had nominated a senator from the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) for the deputy chairmanship. Some PTI leaders believed that th...