Imran Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), has given the go-ahead for party worker and former governor Omar Sarfraz Cheema to serve as the chief minister of Punjab’s adviser on domestic issues.
Cheema had already advised the CM on information. On Twitter, Omar Cheema announced the news and praised the PTI chairman for choosing him for the position.
The choice to hire Cheema was made a day after Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, the chief minister of Punjab, received a letter of resignation from Col. (ret.) Hashim Dogar, the former provincial home minister. According to sources, Omar Cheema would be handed by the province administration all the authority of the home minister.
Shahbaz Gill, a close aide to Imran Khan, recently questioned the performance of the home departments of Punjab and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, claiming that containers had been arriving in the federal capital from the two provinces for the purpose of obstructing roads to prevent Imran Khan’s proposed long march. He had questioned why the home ministers of these provinces had not stopped the transit of containers towards Islamabad. Later, Hashim Dogar, the home minister for Punjab, submitted his letter of resignation, and Imran Khan approved Omar Sarfraz Cheema’s appointment as a home affairs adviser.
