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  "textContent": "ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Monday secured the formal backing of the Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party (IPP) to form a coalition government in Gilgit-Baltistan, following a telephonic contact with Aleem Khan.\n\nDuring the phone call, Bilawal formally invited IPP President Aleem Khan to join the regional government and sought his party's support for the upcoming votes for the region's top legislative slots.\n\nAleem Khan accepted the offer, confirming that the IPP's six lawmakers would vote alongside the PPP.\n\n\"We will support the PPP in the elections for the chief minister, speaker, and other constitutional positions,\" Aleem Khan said, describing the discussion with Bilawal as positive and pleasant.\n\n\"We will ensure these candidates are elected with a heavy majority.\"\n\nThe development cements the PPP's position hours before the Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly votes to elect its new leadership.\n\nEarlier on Monday, 30 newly elected members of the 33-seat region's sixth assembly were sworn in by outgoing Speaker Nazir Ahmed Advocate during a morning session.\n\nThe legislature was subsequently adjourned until 3 pm to conduct the leadership elections.\n\nThe results of three constituencies — one in Skardu and two in Diamer — remain legally contested, leaving those seats temporarily vacant.\n\nFollowing the June 7 regional polls, the PPP emerged as the largest party with 13 seats, followed by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) with nine, and the IPP with six. The Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) and a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed independent hold one seat each.\n\nWith the combined support of the PML-N and the IPP, the PPP-led coalition commands a comfortable majority in the house. Under the power-sharing arrangement, the PPP has nominated Amjad Hussain Advocate for Chief Minister and Imran Nadeem for Speaker, while PML-N’s Malik Kifayat has been slotted for the Deputy Speaker position.\n\nThe post IPP’s Aleem Khan backs PPP in G-B govt formation after talks with Bilawal appeared first on HUM News English.",
  "title": "IPP’s Aleem Khan backs PPP in G-B govt formation after talks with Bilawal"
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