Pak PM Sharif on Thursday was compelled to withdraw the appointment of seasoned diplomat Tariq Fatemi as his Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs after coalition companion PPP opposed the transfer.
Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was compelled to withdraw the appointment of seasoned diplomat Tariq Fatemi as his Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs. (File Photo)
In a setback to Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, he was compelled to withdraw the appointment of seasoned diplomat Tariq Fatemi as his Special Assistant on Foreign Affairs on Thursday after coalition companion Pakistan Peoples Party opposed the transfer.
Fatemi is taken into account an in depth aide of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo Nawaz Sharif. The 77-year-old former diplomat was not initially made a part of Shehbaz’s Cabinet — which took oath on Tuesday after days of deliberations between the premier and his coalition companions.
He served because the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) on Foreign Affairs from 2013 to 2017 however was eliminated after the so-called Dawn-leaks scandal.
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The Pakistan authorities led by Shehbaz, the youthful brother of Nawaz Sharif, on Wednesday appointed Fatemi because the SAPM to the Prime Minister.
The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) instantly raised issues at his appointment as its chief, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, is predicted to be appointed as international minister within the coming days.
Prime Minister Shehbaz, in an effort to allay the issues of the PPP, requested the related division to alter the appointment order.
According to a Cabinet Division notification, Fatemi will proceed to function a SAPM with no portfolio and has been granted the extra standing of a minister of state.
Minister of data Marriyum Aurangzeb instructed the media that the notification was modified to enlarge the position of Fatemi.
“First he was SAPM on international affairs solely, now he’s advisor on all departments,” she mentioned, downplaying U-turn by the prime minister.
Another purpose for altering the notification was that Fatemi was sacked after Dawn-leaks and his reinstatement in the identical place might need not gone effectively with the highly effective institution (navy).
The Dawn-leaks was a few story printed within the Dawn newspaper that reported the main points of a high-level civil-military assembly discussing the problem of banned outfits working in Pakistan.
