ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 26 (UPI) -- Pakistan's ruling party nominated a new interim prime minister, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, hours after the resignation of the incumbent premier, Saturday.
The Pakistan Muslim League party also announced in Islamabad that Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz has been chosen as the new prime minister.
The Pakistani constitution requires a regular prime minister to be elected within 90 days after the departure of an incumbent leader.
Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali resigned earlier Saturday after a meeting with President Pervez Musharraf.
An official announcement issued in Islamabad said Musharraf has accepted the resignation, but Jamali denied he gave his resignation to the president and said he submitted the resignation letter to the head of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League party.
Jamali also announced he has dissolved the federal Cabinet and all members of the Cabinet will submit their resignations by Sunday evening.
Aziz will now have to resign from the upper house of Parliament within a week and then run for a seat in the National Assembly. A prime minister must be a member of the National Assembly.
