Islamabad (Manend News) PPP’s Amjad Hussain on Monday was sworn in as the chief minister of Gilgit-Baltistan in a ceremony attended by his party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari.
Advocate Hussain was for the role on June 22 following the , in which the PPP emerged as the largest party, with 12 seats in the 24-member GB assembly.
Addressing the ceremony after being sworn in, Hussain said the PPP emerged as the “largest party” in the elections.
The PPP had that it would form a government in GB with the support of the PML-N. However, they agreed that the PML-N would sit in the opposition.
The swearing-in ceremony at Chinar Bagh, initially set for July 1, had been as Bilawal went to Iran to attend supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral.