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Who will be the next caretaker PM? Rana Sanaullah clarifies

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ISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has rejected all the rumours regarding Ishaq Dar, Sanaullah said that no one in the government proposed Finance Minister name for caretaker prime minister.

While speaking at a private news channel program, Rana Sanaullah said: “Neither was Ishaq Dar’s name suggested, nor was it rejected. It can be rumour.

The Interior Minister said that, currently, talks were underway about whether a bureaucrat or a politician should be appointed to the coveted post.

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“In case there’s a consensus that a politician can be appointed, then it can either be Ishaq Dar or any other politician from any party,” he said.

However, he added, the government would try to appoint a person acceptable to all sides.

Earlier this week rumours that Dar was a possible candidate for the post of interim CM began to ciculate. However, neither Dar nor any other Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader rejected these rumours.

In fact, Planning Minister Ahsan Iqbal said that the finance minister could be appointed to the post.

It was only later that Defence Minister Khawaja Asif denied the reports, with the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) also against his appointment.

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