ISLAMABAD: Federal Government has decided to make Federal Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin a senator to ensure his continuity as the minister.
While talking to media persons here on Wednesday, Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said that government has approved the election of finance minister Shaukat Tarin as a senator.
The finance minister has only two weeks to get elected as a senator, a prerequisite to continue as finance minister as the six months’ time limit to elect him a member of parliament is going to expire on October 16, 2021.
If the government had not decided to elect him senator till the deadline, he would have to become an adviser to PM on finance. In such a scenario, the government would have to choose a political face for this key position.
It is worthy to be mentioned here that during last three years tenure of Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf (PTI) changed four finance ministers while two of them were elected as senator after naming finance minister.
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