The Central Executive Committee of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) held a meeting here on Tuesday (today) to discuss the party affairs and announce the acting president of PML-N till general house elects president of the party after disqualification of Nawaz Sharif by the Supreme Court. Chairman PML-N Raja Zafar-ul-Haq would chair the meeting. The PML-N acting secretary general Ahsan Iqbal would table agenda regarding appointment of acting president of the party. It is likely that Sardar Yaqoob Khan Nasir would be named as acting president of the party.
The CEC of the PML-N would discuss the current situation and pass some resolutions. The PML-N has been hit by the leadership crisis as its two central decision-making bodies stand dissolved after the Supreme Court verdict of disqualifying Nawaz Sharif as party president. The court ruling has rendered null and void all his decisions as party chief and thus the two central bodies -Central Working Committee and Central Executive Committee-formed by him on December 2, 2017, also stand dissolved.
The CWC comprises 109 members and the CEC 27, the latter panel unprecedented in the history of the League since inception of the party (All-India Muslim League) in 1906. The CEC had been formed under a special resolution of the CWC wherein the party president was authorised to set up the forum for taking certain important decisions to run the party affairs.
Interestingly enough, there is no notified secretary general of the party who, as per Article 16 of the PML-N constitution, is empowered to convene a meeting of the CWC to elect acting party president in case the office falls vacant due to any reason before expiry of the term. The CWC is to meet within seven days of the vacancy of the president's office and schedule within 45 days a meeting of the party's 1,600-plus members of the General Council to elect a new president.