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Raisani files papers for BA
leader
Bhutani, Agha take oath as Speaker, Dy
Afzal Malik
Quetta—Parliamentary leader of the Pakistan people Party and
designate chief minister of Balochistan, Head of Raisani Tribe Nawab
Aslam Khan Raisani filed his nomination designate forms in the
Baloshistan Assembly Secretariat here Tuesday.
PPPP which won 10 seats in the provincial assembly and succeeded to
muster support of 61 out of 65 parliamentarians nominated Nawab
Aslam Khan Raisani for the post of CM. No rival landidate filed
papers.
Those who proposed and seconded him include Sardar Sanaullah Zehri (proposer)
and Shafiq Ahmed Khan (seconder), Mir Muhammad Sadiq Umrani (proposer),
Asmail Gujjar (seconder), Mir Asim Kurd Gailo (proposer), Mir
Muhammad Ismail Bizenjo (seconder), Zamrak Khan (proposer), Abdul
Khaliq Bashar Dost (seconder), Syed Ehsan Shah (proposer), Mir
Asaddullah Baloch (seconder), Maulana Abdul Wasey (proposer), Syed
Matiullah Agha (seconder), Mir Amanullah Khan Notezai (proposer),
Hamal Kalmati (seconder), Mir Muhammad Salim Khosa (proposer), Mir
Abdul Rehman (seconder )and Sheikh Jaffar Khan Mandokhail (proposer)
and Captain (Retd) Abdul Khaliq Achakzai (seconder).
It is for the first time in the history of Balochistan Assembly that
leader of the house is being nominated unopposed and will be
declared elected as leader of the House unanimously. Newly elected
Speaker Balochistan Assembly Mir Mohammad Aslam Bhutani and Deputy
Speaker Syed Matiullah Agha took oath during assembly session.
Outgoing Speaker Jamal Shah Kakar administered oath to incoming
Speaker Mir Mohammad Aslam Bhutani who later administered oath to
Syed Matiullah Agha of his office. Bhutani has served as Deputy
Speaker. Aslam Bhutani of the PML ‘like-minded group’ and Shafique
Ahmed Khan of the PPP had filed their nomination papers for the post
of speaker, but the latter withdrew his candidature in favour of
Bhutani.
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