Raja Pervez is PPP’s candidate for the Pakistan’s PM

Former IT Minister Raja Parvez Ashraf has been nominated as the candidate for the post of Prime Minister by the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). Earlier, Pakistan’s court had issued an arrest warrant for PPP’s first choice for the post of PM, Makhdoom Shahabuddin over a drugs scandal. Raja Parvez Ashraf served as the information technology minister of Pakistan until the Supreme Court dismissed Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. The Lower House of the Pakistani Parliament has been summoned to vote for the new PM.