On Tuesday, PTI leader Omer Ayub announced that Imran Khan, the party’s founder, had selected Junaid Khan to be the deputy speaker and Amir Dogar as the speaker of the National Assembly.
Following several discussions with Ayub and other party leaders following the PTI chief’s imprisonment at Adiala Jail, the statement was made.
During the PTI government, Dogar was the NA’s chief whip. During Imran’s presidency, he also functioned as the prime minister’s special assistant for political matters. Following the rioting on May 9, Dogar was one among numerous PTI leaders who were taken into custody.
Dogar won the NA-149 constituency in Multan in the general elections held on February 8. In the lower house of Parliament, he has been reappointed as the PTI top whip.
As for Imran’s choice for the NA deputy speaker, Junaid Khan, who from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Malakand area, had won the polls.
Ayub claimed in his media appearance today that Junaid was among the PTI’s founding members and had demonstrated his loyalty to the group in the face of numerous obstacles.
“The PTI will form governance, God willing,” he continued.
