Webdesk: Senator Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar, from Balochistan, named the new acting prime minister of Pakistan.
Kakar has a very busy politician from Balochistan and elected to the Senate in 2018. Before he’s elected to the upper house, he was also the spokesman for the local government.
“Even though he has in politics, Kakar seen as a great intellectual in the country,” said Geo News senior reporter Hamid Mir.
Mir said that the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) lawmaker is from the Kakar tribe, which is Pashtun, so he serves both Pashtuns and Balochs.
“The senator also has good relationships with PML-N and PPP, two major political parties.”
Saturday, the Prime Minister’s Office said that the lawmaker chosen as the 8th temporary head of the government.
The decision made after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Raja Riaz met for a second time to talk about it.
Both the PML-N and the PPP had said that a politician could also chosen for the prized position.
The political parties in the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) union had stressed how important it was for economic policies and projects started by outgoing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to stay in place during the change of power.
Also, both Kakar and his party had good relationships with Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI). Former prime minister Imran Khan talked to him about Balochistan.
Because of this, PML-N often had bad things to say about BAP.
But when the party switched ways, PTI said it was wrong.
BAP’s founding member.
The new caretaker prime minister was born in 1971 in Muslim Bagh, which is in the Balochistan region of Killa Saifullah.
He went to St. Francis School in Quetta for his early schooling. Later, he went to Cadet College in Kohat, but when his father died, he moved back to Quetta, which is the provincial capital of Balochistan.
At the University of Balochistan, the senator got his Master’s in Political Science and Sociology.
Senator Kakar began his job by working as a teacher in the town where he grew up.
He was also one of the first people to join BAP. In 2018, he was named the party’s main spokesman.
The person who will become the temporary PM is also the head of the Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis.
In 2008, he ran for a place in the National Assembly from Quetta on the PML-Q ticket.
