Ali Mardan Domki approved as Balochistan interim CM

• Domki belongs to Lahri area of Balochistan.
• His father was senator from 1975 to 1977.
• Domki calls on caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar at PMO.

QUETTA: Balochistan's Chief Minister, Abdul Quddus Bizenjo, and the Leader of the Opposition, Malik Sikandar, have unanimously decided to propose Mir Ali Mardan Khan Domki as the interim chief minister, reports Geo News citing sources.

On August 12, the Balochistan Assembly was dissolved after Governor Malik Abdul Wali Kakar signed the summary moved by CM Bizenjo for its dissolution.

Earlier, Domki called on the caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar at the PMO along with former provincial chief executive Jam Kamal.

Domki belongs to Lahri area of Balochistan. He is the son of former senator Mir Hazor Bakhsh Domki who was a senator from 1975 to 1977.

Balochistan's assembly was the last one to be dissolved after Sindh and the National Assembly following the completion of their constitutional terms. 

On August 11, Sindh Governor Kamran Tessori signed the summary moved by Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah for the dissolution of the provincial assembly just a day before the completion of its five-year constitutional term.

CM Murad Leader of the Opposition in the dissolved Sindh Assembly Rana Ansar reached a consensus on the appointment of Justice (retd) Maqbool Baqar as the interim CM a day earlier. 

On August 14, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar took oath as the eighth caretaker prime minister of Pakistan to see the country through to an election due in months.

With the former prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, and his ex-cabinet members in attendance at the Aiwan-e-Sadar, President Arif Alvi administered the oath to Kakar — a former senator and leader of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP).