Govt appoints Omer Cheema as Punjab governor

The announcement additionally got here hours earlier than an important session of the Nationwide Meeting on the no-confidence movement towards Prime Minister Imran Khan in addition to a sitting of the Punjab Meeting to elect a brand new chief of the home following Usman Buzdar’s resignation.

It was not instantly clear why the federal authorities determined to take away Sarwar and the data minister, who introduced the event on Twitter, didn’t present a cause.

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On the time. the minister mentioned that the brand new governor can be introduced later. “In line with the Structure, the deputy speaker [of the Punjab Assembly] would be the performing governor,” he mentioned.

Later, he shared that Cheema, the PTI’s former info secretary, had been appointed the brand new Punjab governor.

عمر سرفراز چیمہ کو نیا گورنر پنجاب مقرر کر دیا گیا ہے

— Ch Fawad Hussain (@fawadchaudhry) April 3, 2022

Sarwar is a former member of the British parliament and had deserted his political profession in Glasgow to serve in Pakistan in 2013. He had joined the PML-N and was made the Punjab governor after the celebration gained the 2013 normal elections within the centre in addition to in Punjab.

Nevertheless, he had had resigned from Punjab governor workplace in January 2015 and instantly joined the PTI. In September 2018, he was sworn in as governor for a second time period.

In the meantime, the brand new Punjab governor is without doubt one of the pioneer members of the PTI. He had joined the celebration in April 1996 and served as its central info secretary for 5 years in addition to the chairman’s spokesperson for a short stint in 2015. He has additionally served as celebration’s deputy organiser of Punjab.