Profile: Sikandar Sultan Raja, the new Chief Election Commissioner
(WorldNews Pakistan)

A parliamentary panel agreed on Tuesday to ex-bureaucrat Sikandar Sultan Raja as the new Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP). After months of deadlock between the government and the opposition on the new CEC’s appointment, the panel unanimously agreed to appoint Raja to the post. The commissioner’s appointment is a crucial one considering allegations of rigging marred the previous election from which the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) emerged as the largest party. PM Imran wrote a letter to Leader of the Opposition Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday. Out of the three names proposed to the PML-N president, Raja’s was one of them. Both...