Govt, Opposition nominees’ papers for Speaker, Dy Speaker filed, accepted

ISLAMABAD, Mar 18 (APS): Secretary National Assembly Tuesday accepted the nomination papers of the candidates of government and opposition parties for the slots of Speaker and Deputy Speaker. The nominees of both treasury and the opposition parties had filed their nomination papers with the Secretary National Assembly at the Parliament House on Tuesday morning.Dr. Fehmida Mirza and Faisal Karim Kundi, the PPP candidates for the slots of Speaker National Assembly and Deputy Speaker respectively, filed their nomination papers with the Secretary National Assembly here at the Parliament House.Both the PPP candidates, flanked by PPP leaders Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Syed Naveed Qamar, Farzana Raja, Arbab Muhammad Zahir and others, reached Parliament House around 11 a.m. to file their papers.
Fehmida Mirza was proposed by MNAs Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Syed Naveed Qamar, Farzana Raja, Arbab Muhammad Zahir, Maulana Qasim and Sardar Ayaz Sadiq.
Kundi was proposed by Dr. Azra Fazal Pichio, Mehreen Anwar Raja, Abdul Mateen Khan and Syed Khurshid Shah.
The candidates for both the slots from the opposition parties filed their papers around 11:30 a.m.
Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Ch. Pervaiz Elahi, Senator Muhammad Ali Durrani, Dr. Donia Aziz, Engr. Amir Muqam and others were also present.
Opposition candidate for Speaker’s slot Sardar Israr Tareen was proposed by Dr. Donia Aziz, S.A. Iqbal Qadri and Engr. Amir Muqam.
Khushbakht Shujaat, the opposition’s nominee for the slot of Deputy Speaker, was proposed by Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, Iqbal Muhammad Ali Khan, Abdul Qadir Khanzada and Abdul Wasim.