ISLAMABAD – Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar is to be sworn in Monday as Pakistan’s top minister to head a caretaker nationwide executive that may oversee parliamentary elections.
Kakar, who is relatively new to politics, has been representing his Baluchistan province in the Senate since 2018.
On Sunday, Kakar surrender as the pinnacle of his small Baluchistan Awami Party and give up as a senator after being named through outgoing premier Shehbaz Sharif and opposition chief Raza Riaz to oversee the vote and run the day-to-day affairs of the federal government till the people elect a brand new executive. It is commonplace apply in Pakistan to appoint a caretaker management for the election duration.
Under the charter, the election will have to happen in the following 90 days.
The swearing-in is going down as Pakistanis celebrate the rustic’s 76th Independence Day. But the day comes amid a deepening political turmoil, which began after the elimination of former premier Imran Khan from energy final 12 months.
Pakistan received independence when the departing British left India and break up the subcontinent in 1947.
Monday’s festivities started with gun salutes in the capital, Islamabad, and in every of the 4 provincial capitals. In Islamabad, President Arif Alvi hoisted the nationwide flag at a rite attended through officers and different dignitaries.
Security used to be excessive around the country following more than one assaults on the weekend, together with an attack in which Chinese operating on a building challenge escaped unhurt however two militants have been killed when troops briefly returned fireplace in the coastal the city of Gwadar in Baluchistan province.
In his in a single day farewell deal with to the country, Sharif requested his countrymen to “make the right decision” after they pass to vote. He blamed Khan for the industrial disaster the rustic used to be going through when he got here to energy.
Sharif changed Khan in April 2022 when he used to be ousted in a no-confidence vote in parliament.
Khan used to be sentenced to 3 years in jail in a graft case previous this month and is lately being held on the high-security Attock jail in japanese Punjab province.
But Khan stays a well-liked opposition flesh presser and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf celebration is anticipated to give a tricky time to his major rival Sharif’s ruling Pakistan Muslim League celebration in the elections.
Khan himself would be not able to participate in the election until his conviction is overturned as no person with a prison conviction can lead a celebration, run in elections or hang public place of work. He has appealed the conviction.