NA to elect new Speaker, Dy Speaker today
By Asghar Ali Mubarak

ISLAMABAD—The nomination papers of Dr. Fahmida Mirza, Israr Tareen, Faisal Karim Kundi and Khushbakht Shujaat for speaker and deputy speaker respectively have been approved after scrutiny. Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and opposition parties have submitted nomination papers of their candidates for speaker and deputy speaker of National Assembly on Tuesday, private TV channel GEO reported. The final list would be issued today and elections would be held tomorrow.
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.
Fahmida Mirza, the nominee of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and its coalition Parties for the office of Speaker National Assembly has vowed to come to the expectations of her Party and its allied parties. “There is no alternate of late Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and her absence would always haunt us, she said this while talking to media men after submitting her nomination papers for Speaker National Assembly on Tuesday.
She said that she would try her level best to take treasury and opposition members alongwith her, adding that, it is first time in the Parliamentary history of Pakistan that a women would be elected as Speaker National Assembly.