Crucial post: Maryam Aurangzeb named state apportion for information
Maryam Aurangzeb. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD: The supervision on Monday allocated sovereign lawmaker Maryam Aurangzeb as apportion of state for information, broadcasting and heritage.
The preference was taken in a high-level assembly presided over by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and attended by comparison supervision officials. The assembly was hold only dual days after Pervaiz Rashid was asked to step down as information apportion over a ‘fabricated’ news leaked to a newspaper.
Although Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan during his news discussion on Sunday pronounced a supervision would form an exploration cabinet to find out a genuine culprits behind a leak, he done it transparent that there was no record accessible to infer who was behind a news published in Dawn on Oct 6.
Aurangzeb’s appointment as a apportion of state for information was announced by an central PML-N tweet. “Prime apportion has motionless to designate Maryam Aurangzeb as new info apportion (Min of State)’. However, no central presentation was released until a filing of this report.
Aurangzeb is a PML-N lawmaker from Punjab and was inaugurated as MNA on indifferent seats for women during a 2013 ubiquitous elections. She is a daughter of former MNA Tahira Aurangzeb and is deliberate tighten to PM’s daughter Maryam Nawaz.
“Congratulations to a new MOS MOIB Maryam Aurangzeb, one of a many energetic and committed group members. May a Almighty magnify we with success,” Maryam Nawaz tweeted on her appointment.
Federal minister’s container kept open
The supervision has kept everybody guessing by gripping a container of a sovereign apportion for information empty in a pierce that suggests that Pervaiz Rashid might be backed as information minister.
Sources in a sovereign supervision arcane to a assembly during a PM’s bureau claimed that Sharif during a assembly done it transparent that no one would reinstate Pervaiz Rashid.
This is a transparent denote that a container of a sovereign apportion will sojourn empty compartment a execution of a exploration into a matter. It means that a dismissal of Rashid, who is a tighten help of a primary minister, might be proxy and he might be behind once a cabinet clears his name of committing any wrongdoing.
Earlier, rumours were there that a supervision was deliberation a name of Senator Mushahid Ullah Khan for a empty slot. He was asked to come behind to Pakistan from Japan as shortly as possible.
The sources pronounced a container of a sovereign apportion is a rarely obliged position; therefore, his (Khan’s) name was being discussed since he is deliberate to be a rarely responsible, a seasoned politician and an lawful male in a party.
Published in The Express Tribune, Nov 1st, 2016.
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