Pakistan’s northwest assembly votes today to elect new provincial chief minister

ISLAMABAD: Lawmakers in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa are voting today, Monday, to elect a new chief minister after the resignation of Ali Amin Gandapur who stepped down last week amid reports of internal party restructuring and rising militancy in the region. Sohail Afridi, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party’s nominee for the top provincial post, filed his nomination papers on Sunday along with three opposition candidates representing the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F).

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