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The prime minister has decided to award senate ticket to Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin to get him elected as senator.
The finance minister Shaukat Tarin is expected to be elected on a senate seat from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, according to the sources. The constitution demands that an un-elected person could remain a minister for maximum six months period. To ensure his continuity after six months required to get him elected as a member of the parliament.
Tarin’s six months of tenure as an un-elected finance minister will conclude in the second week of October, sources said. “The decision to elect him as senator was taken in a meeting chaired by the prime minister Imran Khan,” according to sources.
“It is yet to be decided who will vacate a seat of the upper house to elect Shaukat Tarin as member of the senate,” sources said. “The matter is expected to be decided within two days.” Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin when questioned by a newsman about the “good news”, “it will be soon,” he replied in the same vein.
The formal announcement would be made much before the beginning of talks with the IMF on Oct 4 so that the Fund’s negotiating team and management has clarity of direction and certainty that certain understandings, commitments and agreements would be honoured by the head of the economic team as he would be there to implement them.
Mr Tarin had been brushing aside uncertainty about his own future in the government and repeatedly said the prime minister had promised to make him a senator. The finance minister, whose constitutional tenure is ending on Oct 15, had also rejected uncertainty about his portfolio. “I am not going anywhere. I trust the prime minister who has promised to make me a senator,” he said last week.