Azam Khan takes oath as caretaker KP CM

‘Peaceful polls top priority’
Speaking to Geo News after his appointment, Khan said that ensuring peaceful elections is his first priority. “It is the Election Commission of Pakistan’s job to conduct peaceful polls and we will fully support it,” he said. “I have served as a caretaker interior minister before and supported the ECP in the elections.” Khan said that the province facing problems like law and order and inflation, promising to take measures to reduce them.Punjab remains undecided
However, in Punjab, the government and opposition remain at loggerheads over finalising the name of the interim chief minister. The committee to appoint the caretaker CM in Punjab met a day earlier, but the meeting ended with no results and leaders from both sides criticised one another in their pressers. The matter will now be taken up by the ECP tomorrow, which will decide who will be appointed to the post within two days. However, outgoing Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi has already declared that if the decision-making power is left to the ECP, he will take the matter to the Supreme Court.« CDA to resolve issues of business community in cooperation with ICCI (Previous News)
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