ISLAMABAD: Member National Assembly (MNA) Rana Tanvir Hussain on Thursday unanimously elected as new Chairman of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in a joint meeting of the members from opposition and the ruling party in parliament house.
Leader of the opposition in the National Assembly and Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) Shehbaz Sharif had resigned from the position earlier, leaving the position open for a new appointment.
In his resignation, submitted on November 18, a day before his departure to London with former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, the PML-N president had nominated Hussain as his replacement.
In order to improve how the committee functions, we will work faster, he said. Tanveer’s name was submitted for consideration by PTI MNA Sardar Nasrullah Dreshak. It was supported by Mushahid Hussain and Pervaiz Ashraf. No one else opposed his appointment.
According to media reports, while the PML-N claimed that it had taken the other opposition parties on board on the nomination of Hussain as the new PAC chairman, a PPP stalwart had said that they had not been consulted before his nomination.
The government later had also decided not to challenge Tanveer’s nomination for the post of PAC chairman with its recent conciliatory approach towards the opposition.
