Little-known senator Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar set to sworn in Monday as Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister to see the country through to an election due in months.
Kakar, 52, takes charge of a country that has wracked by political and economic instability for months, with Imran Khan — Pakistan’s most popular politician — in jail and disqualified from elections for five years.
He will sworn in on the country’s Independence Day on Monday afternoon in a ceremony carried live on TV.
Kakar’s first task will to choose a cabinet to run the country as it heads into an election period that could last for months.
There has speculation for months that a vote would delayed as the establishment struggles to stabilise a country facing overlapping security, economic and political crises.
The country has in political turmoil since Khan has dismissed as premier by a no-confidence vote in April 2022, culminating in him jailed last weekend for three years for graft.