Imran Khan’s party nominates Umar Ayub Khan, grandson of ex-military dictator Ayub Khan, as PM candidate

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Separately, PTI top leader Gohar Khan also confirmed that Umar Ayub Khan was nominated as PM by Imran Khan himself..

The prime ministerial candidate nominated by jailed former prime minister Imran Khans party on Thursday declared that his first priority would be to get Khan and other party leaders out of jail...

Umar Ayub Khan, 54, who is the party secretary general, is the grandson of former military dictator Ayub Khan..

I will try my utmost to come up to the expectations of Prime Minister Imran Khan sahib, PTI members and the people of Pakistan, he posted on his official X handle, both in English and in a separate post in Urdu...

I am hopeful that Umar Ayub Khan will be elected as Prime Minister, former PTI speaker Asad Qaiser said while talking to media persons after meeting Khan in the Adiala Jail at Rawalpindi, where he has been lodged since September last year...

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