Pakistan’s outgoing prime minister, Shehbaz Sharif, and the leader of the opposition will on Thursday meet to pick a caretaker leader to oversee a general election due by November.
An official in the prime minister’s office said, Sharif and opposition leader Raja Riaz will meet in the afternoon.
Under the constitution, the two have three days to reach agreement on a caretaker. If they can’t, the decision will go to a parliamentary committee, and if it can’t, then the Election Commission of Pakistan will decide.
The lower house of parliament was dissolved on Wednesday, three days before the end of its five-year term on Aug. 12.
Pakistan to pick caretaker leader to oversee general election
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