Governor Punjab Ch Sarwar removed by the PTI government
Sources are claiming that Ch Sarwar was removed on the complain of Ch Pervaiz Ilahi
Ch Sarwar
has been removed as Governor Punjab by the PTI government. This decision was
taken just hours before the election of new CM Punjab in the Punjab Assembly
today. Some sources have claimed that Ch Sarwar has been removed on the
complaint of Ch Pervaiz Ilahi for campaigning Hamza Shahbaz against Ch Pervaiz
Ilahi.
The sources
said that Pervaiz Elahi telephoned Prime Minister Imran Khan to lodge his
complaint against Chaudhry Sarwar. Taking notice of the issue, PM Imran Khan
suggested the president to sack the Punjab governor. The sources said that
Chaudhry Sarwar was opposing Pervaiz Elahi for the coveted post.
Senior Journalist Hamid Mir and Gharida Farooqui have claimed in their tweets that they spoke to Governor Sarwar not seems happy the way he has been sacked. He confirmed to the Gharida that he has been removed on the complaint of Ch Pervaiz Ilahi.
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Minister Fawad Chaudhry on twitter announced to remove Punjab Governor Chaudhry
Mohammad Sarwar from his post.
The minister
said that the new governor would be announced later. "According to the
Constitution, the deputy speaker [of the Punjab Assembly] will be the acting
governor," he said.
Ch Sarwar is
a former member of the British parliament and had abandoned his political
career and British nationality in Glasgow to serve in Pakistan in 2013. He had
joined the PML-N and was made the Punjab governor after the party won the 2013
general elections in the centre as well as in Punjab.
However, he
had had resigned from Punjab governor office in January 2015 and immediately
joined the PTI. In September 2018, he was sworn in as governor
for a second term.
Khalid Bhatti
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