Advocate Amjad Hussain | Pakistan

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Sunday announced Advocate Amjad Hussain as the party’s candidate for the post of Gilgit-Baltistan chief minister. The announcement came a day after the PPP — which emerged as the leading party during the recent general elections — announced it would form a government in GB with the support of the PML-N. Local PPP and PML-N leaders have agreed on a proposed power-sharing formula under which the region’s chief minister would be from the PPP, while the governor of GB, as well as the leader of the opposition, will be from the PML-N. According to an official statement shared on X, “Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has decided to appoint PPP’s provincial president, Advocate Amjad Hussain, as the chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan.” It added that the PPP chairman also had a telephonic conversation with Hussain. “The PPP chairman issued instructions to Advocate Amjad regarding government formation and the implementation of the constitutional and economic rights of the people,” th...