Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on August 4 nominated his party’s lawmaker Abdul Qayyum Niazi as the next premier of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) after extensive consultations.

 In a tweet, the Pakistan Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Fawad Chaudhry, on Wednesday announced that Imran Khan has made the decision after extensive consultations and reviewing all the proposals. Azhar Mashwani, Punjab chief minister's focal person for digital media, added that Niazi was a member of the PoK Legislative Assembly from border area Abbaspur Poonch.

Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf party has secured 32 seats in the 53-member House. It is for the first time that the Tehreek-i-Insaf party will form a government in PoK.

 According to international media reports, Imran Khan Friday and Saturday interviewed no less than seven candidates for the position of PoK prime minister. The PM had put various questions to them, relating to their future strategy and views on environment, tourism and national and international issues. According to a source, Imran had expressed disapproval over the fact that he was being contacted by different quarters that were exerting pressure to select particular candidates.

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