Thursday, 18 July 2013
ISLAMABAD: Top leadership of PML-N has started giving serious consideration to the name of Baloch Nationalist leader Sardar Attaullah Mengal for the high office of President.
Informed sources said on Thursday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during his consultative meeting with senior leaders of the party recently expressed his desire that if Baloch nationalist leader Sardar Attaullah Mengal agrees, he could be made Presidential candidate.
The sources further said that in the next couple of days Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and some other senior PML-N leader would formally seek the opinion of Sardar Mengal. As leader of the opposition in National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar had earlier suggested to make Sardar Mengal as caretaker Prime Minister which the elderly Sardar politely refused.
Meanwhile, name of another PML-N Central leader from Balochistan Sardar Yaqub Nasir is also under consideration. An important party leader said that Sardar Yaqub Nasir could be a potential Presidential candidate from Balochistan.
PML-N considering Sardar Attaullah Mengal for Presidential election
ISLAMABAD: Top leadership of PML-N has started giving serious consideration to the name of Baloch Nationalist leader Sardar Attaullah Mengal for the high office of President.
Informed sources said on Thursday that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif during his consultative meeting with senior leaders of the party recently expressed his desire that if Baloch nationalist leader Sardar Attaullah Mengal agrees, he could be made Presidential candidate.
The sources further said that in the next couple of days Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and some other senior PML-N leader would formally seek the opinion of Sardar Mengal. As leader of the opposition in National Assembly Chaudhry Nisar had earlier suggested to make Sardar Mengal as caretaker Prime Minister which the elderly Sardar politely refused.
Meanwhile, name of another PML-N Central leader from Balochistan Sardar Yaqub Nasir is also under consideration. An important party leader said that Sardar Yaqub Nasir could be a potential Presidential candidate from Balochistan.
PML-N considering Sardar Attaullah Mengal for Presidential election
