Najam Sethi takes oath as Punjab caretaker CM

Newspaper editor and senior journalist, Najam Sethi, Wednesday took oath as caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab.

Governor Makhdoom Ahmad Mehmood administered the oath to Mr Sethi at a ceremony at Governor House in Lahore.

Mr Sethi was nominated with consensus by the PML-N and the PPP  after long consultations.

Rana Sanaullah, the PML-N leader said that his party has accepted nomination of Mr Sethi from the rival Pakistan Peoples Party.

The parliamentary committee in Punjab had earlier failed to reach consensus and even the members announced in the morning to refer the matter to the Election Commission.

However, later the PML-N chief, Nawaz Sharif, intervened and the committee was summoned again and his party agreed on the name of Najam Sethi.

Sources said the PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif approved the name of Mr. Sethi after a deadlock in the joint parliamentary committee.

Sethi is the editor-in-chief of The Friday Times, a political weekly, and previously had been the editor of English newspaper Daily Times and Daily Aajkal an Urdu-language newspaper. He also appears on Geo television in a current affairs show.

Sethi told reporters that he will ensure transparent elections in the province. He said he will approach the Election Commission and will extend his full support to the panel for fair polls. He said he will also follow directives from the highest courts.

Sethi won the 1999 International Press Freedom Award of the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists and the 2009 World Association of Newspapers’ Golden Pen of Freedom Award.

He graduated from Government College University in Lahore. He received a Master’s degree in economics at Cambridge University in the UK, and spent two additional years there at Clare College as a PhD research student.

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