Former SC judge to be Pak's new CEC

July 09, 2012 21:35

An India-born former judge of Pakistan's Supreme Court is set to be the country's new Chief Election Commissioner as the ruling PPP and opposition parties today forged consensus on his appointment.

After weeks of differences in choosing a consensus candidate, the PPP and opposition parties decided that former Supreme Court judge Fakhruddin G Ebrahim would be appointed the new Chief Election Commissioner. The Parliamentary Committee on the Appointment of the CEC developed consensus on Ebrahim during a meeting chaired this afternoon by Religious Affairs Minister Khursheed Shah.

The post of CEC has been vacant since March 24 and the main opposition PML-N had rejected most of the candidates proposed by the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

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