Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman, Imran Khan will be sworn-in as the new Prime Minister of Pakistan before August 14, a party leader said on Saturday.
According to the Geo News, PTI leader Naeem-ul-Haq said that the mainstream political parties have agreed to attend the oath-taking ceremony. “Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain would call for an assembly session, and the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) would soon administer the oath to the newly elected representative”, Naeem-ul-Haq added.
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As PTI would form the government at the Centre and in Punjab province, Haq said, “Imran Khan is working day and night for this. We are in contact with independent candidates and today or until tomorrow the nation will hear a good news.” Meanwhile, four independent candidates have joined the PTI, as the latter is locked in a political battle against Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz), abbreviated as PML-N. According to the report, in Punjab Assembly, PML-N bagged 127 seats while PTI is second in position with 123 seats.
Haq refuted the allegations that there were tussles between senior PTI leaders Jahangir Tareen and Shah Mehmood Qureshi. He also added that Chaudhry Nisar, PML-N leader, and former Pakistan Interior Ministry is welcome to join PTI.
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The PTI emerged as the single largest party with 115 seats, PML-N won 64 seats, while PPP with 43 seats finished third after the ECP released complete preliminary results for 270 of 272 National Assembly constituencies on Saturday.
However, PML-N called for a conference to prepare a strategy over the alleged rigging of the General Elections 2018. Chaired by PML-N president Shahbaz Sharif and Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMM) President Maulana Fazlur Rehman, the multi-party conference has rejected the poll results and demanded a transparent re-election.