PML: N's nominations for caretaker CM a 'joke': Fawad.

LAHORE -- Pakistan Tehreek: e: Insaaf Senior Vice: President Fawad Chaudhry Tuesday demanded of the Speaker National Assembly to return to the PTI three key positions in the National Assembly that should be held by the opposition. 'Office of the Leader of the Opposition, Parliamentary Leader and the leadership of the Public Accounts Committee should be given to Tehreek: e: Insaf members', he said while talking to the media outside Zaman Park residence of PTI chief Imran Khan. Fawad further stated that a committee had been formed under the leadership of Pervez Khattak that will meet the speaker to get back the three offices now occupied by the PTI dissidents. Fawad, however, said that a decision to return to the National Assembly had not yet been made, but Pervez Khattak and Aamir Dogar will meet the speaker to get the three offices back. He also told reporters that Mian Aslam would head the PTI's parliamentary party in Punjab, which was earlier headed by former Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar. The PTI leader said that his party was now focused on the National Assembly and wanted to set a framework for national elections at the same time.

He asked the federal government to sit with the PTI to prepare a framework for the next general elections. 'Now our focus is on the National Assembly. We want the federal government to sit with us. Economic stability will not come without political stability', he maintained. Fawad also demanded that elections should be held in Punjab and KP before the holy month of Ramadan. Talking about KP assembly's dissolution, Fawad stated that the dissolution of KP Assembly would be an important step towards paving the way for national elections in Pakistan. He hoped that they would be able to send packing the federal government home in the next two weeks. Reacting over the government's nominations for the caretaker Punjab CM, Fawad said that names proposed by PML: N for the caretaker chief minister were a joke and non: serious move. 'It is a joke if they have proposed these names but they haven't been communicated to us,' he said, adding that the names proposed by the PTI and the PMLQ were 'serious' names.

'We think that consensus should be developed on those names,' he said...