LAHORE: The PML-N general council meeting has been rescheduled for May 28 to re-elect Nawaz Sharif as the party president.

Earlier, the party had announced convening the general council meeting on May 11 for this purpose. On Tuesday, the party spokesperson Marriyum Aurangzeb said the meeting would now be held May 28 to coincide with the celebration of 26 years of Pakistan becoming a nuclear power.

Nawaz will take over the party presidency from his younger brother Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, six years after the Supreme Court disqualified the elder Sharif from holding the post.

“Nawaz was disqualified in 2017 [by the Supreme Court] through a conspiracy. Now it’s time that he assumes the office of the party president and leads the party to new heights of popularity,” the party said.

Published in Dawn, May 8th, 2024