October 26, 2002	Saturday	Sha’aban 19,1423

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ISLAMABAD, Oct 25: Pakistan Muslim League-Q president Mian Mohammad Azhar has nominated Anwarul Haq Ramay as party information secretary to replace Begum Abida Hussain, who had resigned from the office in the party’s CWC meeting held here the other day.

While the CWC rejected the resignation of Azhar as party president it kept quiet over Abida’s resignation, which was presumed as an acceptance, though both had resigned on the ground that they had lost in the general elections.

Interestingly, Anwarul Haq Ramay also lost his National Assembly seat yet he has been nominated to hold the office of the information secretary of the party besides being its spokesman.

The party additional secretary general, Col Ghulam Sarwar Cheema (retired) told Dawn that the president was competent to accept the resignation of one office-bearer and nominate another because filling up of an office through election involved convening of general council meeting, which was not possible.

Party sources said Azhar had ordered issuing of a notification without consulting party secretary general Mir Zafarullah Jamali as required by the PML-Q constitution.

Earlier, the party president had appointed an advisory committee over and above the CWC and parliamentary committee decision, empowering Chaudhry Shujaat to negotiate with other parties on the formation of government and also to decide on nomination of party candidate for prime ministership.

The 13-man advisory committee consists of six elected and seven non-elected members, and are sharply divided over the nomination of party candidate as prime minister, the sources claimed.