PML dissident may become next Pak. P.M.

ISLAMABAD, APRIL 30. Political strategists of the military regime in Pakistan are working towards restoring the suspended elected Houses and installing Mr. Mian Muhammad Azhar, a prominent dissident Muslim Leaguer, as the next Prime Minister, media reported today.

Mr. Azhar has emerged as the consensus candidate of the Muslim League anti-Nawaz group and of those suspended leaders who have a relatively cleaner record, Frontier Post newspaper reported.

This option is being considered to cleanse the society of corrupt politicians and thereby ensure that several top Muslim League leaders, who were members of the suspended elected Houses, are eliminated from politics, it said.

Sources in the PML said the military Government would soon begin contacting key political figures of the suspended Houses to garner their support for the new political option, which would be similar to a broad-based national Government.

Former caretaker Prime Minister, Mr. Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, and Mr. Mian Azhar, had also been taken into confidence, they added.

- PTI

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