AmjadHussain Zaidiof the Pakistan Tehreelei-Insaf (PTI) was elected speaker of the Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly and Nazir Ahmed of the same party deputy speaker through secret voting on November 26, 2020.
PTIcandidate Zaidisecured 18 votes while Ghulam Mohammad, joint candidate of the PPP, PML-N, JUI-F and Balawaristan National Front-Naji for the post of speaker, obtained eight votes.
Pakistan Tehreek-I-Insaf’s Parliamentary Secretary for Law and Justice Barrister Maleeka Bokhari has been selected as the World Economic Forum Young Global Leader for five years.
The Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum is a dynamic community consisting of 1400 members from 140 countries.
Pakistan-born scientist Asifa Akhtar has become the first international female vice president of the biology and medicine section at Germany`s prestigious Max Planck Society.
Thefederal government on November 27, 2020appointed retired Flight Lieutenant KhaganMurtaza as director general of the Civil Aviation Authority, a high-profile position that was vacant for quite some time.
MrMurtaza is currently working as principal secretary to the Sindh governor.
PTI Senator Faisal Javed on October 29, 2020 resigned as the head of Pak-French Parliamentary Friendship Group to protest the French president’s support to the publication of blasphemous sketches of the Holy Prophet (SAW).
