Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former Punjab governor Omar Sarfaraz Cheema announced the party’s plan to challenge the appointment of the new National Accountability Bureau (NAB) chairman before the court. The federal government appointed Lt Gen (retd) Nazir Ahmad Butt as the new NAB chairman for a period of three years after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Raja Riaz reached a consensus on the name of the retired general.
Cheema told that the PTI had already written to the National Assembly speaker earlier in February, requesting the appointment of PTI MNA Shah Mehmood Qureshi as the opposition leader. However, instead of entertaining the request, the speaker allowed PTI dissident Raja Riaz to continue as the opposition leader, despite no longer having majority support from the opposition benches.
They used their own pawn despite knowing fully well that Riaz could no longer function as the opposition leader after courts overturned the NA speaker’s decision of accepting the PTI resignations allowing the party lawmakers to return to the assembly in numbers much greater than those supporting Riaz.
