AMN / LAHORE
Putting an end to all rumours, the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) finally made Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif its acting president on Tuesday.
His elder brother and ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was made the ruling party’s top leader, ‘Quaid’ for lifetime.
The PML-N elected its new head days after the Supreme Court disqualified 68-year-old Nawaz as the Chief of his party and struck down all decisions taken by him as the party head.
Shahbaz, 66, has been elected as the party’s president for 45 days by its Central Working Committee (CWC) in a meeting held in Sharif’s Model Town Lahore residence today.
In the meeting, Nawaz proposed the name of Shahbaz for the party’s interim president which was unanimously approved by the CWC.
The meeting also approved making Nawaz PML-N top leader for lifetime and also paid tributes to his service for the party, country and democracy.
Under the party’s rules, the PML-N’s CWC is supposed to elect an acting party head within a week of its chief’s removal.
Then the party’s general council is required to elect a president within 45 days. Nawaz was removed from the post of PML-N president by the apex court on the 22nd of this month.