LAHORE
Former finance minister Senator Ishaq Dar has been appointed as the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Election Cell chairman.
A notification in this regard was issued on Saturday by PML-N secretary general Ahsan Iqbal with the approval of Shehbaz Sharif.
Senior party leader Ahsan Iqbal issued the notification for his appointment on Saturday after the approval of party President Shehbaz Sharif.
“With the approval of the President PML-N, Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar is hereby appointed as Chairman, Election Cell PML-N, for General Elections 2024,” read the notification.
Taking to X, formerly Twitter, PML-N’s spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said that the party’s election related activities will further expedite after the latest appointment.
Another PML-N leader Marriyum Aurangzeb uploaded the notification on her X account.
As per the Marriyum’s post, the head of the election cell will speed up the activities related to the elections of Muslim League (N).
All related matters including receiving applications for party tickets, monitoring the election rules will be completed quickly by Ishaq Dar who had also chaired the parliamentary committee that drafted the Election Act 2017 passed by the Parliament, she added.
It is pertinent to mention here that the PML-N has already invited applications from the interested candidates to contest the general elections.
PML-N, which was often found complaining about the absence of a level-playing following the disqualification and conviction of former prime minister and the party supremo Nawaz Sharif in corruption references, at last started its election campaign after their leader’s return from London on October 21, 2023.
The Supreme Court of Pakistan declared February 8, 2024, as the date for holding general elections across the country after the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) submitted a notification in the Supreme Court pertaining to the polls date.
A three-member bench of the apex court heard multiple pleas seeking elections within the 90 days after the dissolution of the national and provincial assemblies.
