Background discussions with senior PML-N leaders indicate that the PPP too is eyeing the slot. Reportedly, the PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari wants his son, the PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, elevated as the PAC chief. “The PPP is supporting the demand that the PAC chairman should be from the opposition benches but for its own sake. A PML-N senator said the PML-N lately reached out to the PPP leadership and Shehbaz also met the PPP stalwart Khursheed Shah seeking the PPP’s support for Shehbaz’s appointment as PAC chief. On Tuesday, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry told some reporters that the government intended to have the PAC chairman appointed from the treasury benches.

Source: The Express Tribune September 27, 2018 19:07 UTC