On Friday, 55 people, including a police officer, lost their lives and dozens of them were left injured in a suicide blast near a 12th Rabiul Awwal procession in Balochistan’s Mastung district in Pakistan.
The flood victims got angered as the local police and municipal staffers took back the tents from the flood relief camp in Attari after caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi’s visit to the city on Wednesday.
Punjab caretaker Chief Minister Mohsin Naqvi on Saturday said rescue efforts are underway after a flood “unprecedented in 35 years” was reported in the Sutlej River, Dawn reported.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Governor Ghulam Ali administered the oath in a ceremony held at the Governor’s house and was attended by KP caretaker chief minister Mohammad Azam Khan and others.
The appointment of Balochistan caretaker Chief Minister Ali Mardan Khan Domki was approved by Governor Malik Abdul Wali Khan Kakar on Friday on the recommendation of the Parliamentary Committee on Friday, reported The Express Tribune.
Meanwhile, no name has been finalized yet for the appointment of the caretaker chief minister. According to sources, the first round of talks between JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman and BNP-M chief Sardar Akhtar Mengal was held in Islamabad on Friday.
Naqvi in a tweet posted helicopter footage of flooded lands that was reminiscent of the imagery that followed the catastrophic rains that left more than a third of the country under water last year.
In a recent move, the Lahore High Court (LHC) dismissed a plea challenging the appointment of Mohsin Raza Naqvi as the caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab, The News International reported.
After Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) victory in the recently concluded Tripura Assembly polls, the caretaker Chief Minister Manik Saha has been elected as the leader of BJP legislative party on Monday.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) will on Sunday evening hold a meeting to choose Punjab's caretaker chief minister, the Dawn reported, adding that the meeting was necessitated as the bi-partisan parliamentary committee established by the Speaker of the Punjab Assembly speaker failed
Khan's name for the provincial caretaker role was finalised after consultation between outgoing chief minister Mahmood Khan and Leader of the Opposition Akram Khan Durrani