Today (Thursday), the next chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) will be elected.
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) have declared their support for Haji Gulbar Khan of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) forward bloc for the post, while three members of the PTI like-minded group who submitted their nomination papers for the post of chief minister late at night have declared their intention to boycott the election.
At 12 p.m., the chief minister will be elected. Candidates have till 10 a.m. today (Thursday) to withdraw their nomination papers. According to a PTI ally in the GB Assembly, the majority in the assembly was forcedly changed into a minority.