Peshawar (Web Desk): The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government and the opposition have unanimously nominated former bureaucrat Azam Khan as the caretaker chief minister of the province.
The consensus on Azam Khan was reached in a meeting of the government and opposition committees held in the provincial capital after which Governor Haji Ghulam Ali Saturday appointed former provincial chief secretary as the interim chief minister in the province.
As per the notification, the governor appointed as the caretaker chief minister in terms of Clause (IA) of the Article 224 of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan 1973.
The notification added that PTI’s outgoing CM Mahmood Khan and the Leader of the Opposition in the KP Assembly and Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan-Fazal (JUI-F) leader Akram Khan Durrani were requested to hold consultations with the provincial governor regarding the appointment and both agreed on Azam as the nominee, it added.
Addressing a joint press conference along with PTI KP President Pervez Khattak and Chief Minister Mahmood Khan Akram Khan Durrani said we have chosen a person who is acceptable to all.
Azam Khan, who belongs to Charsadda, has previously served as K-P finance minister from October 24, 2007, to April 1, 2008. He also remained the secretary of the ministry of petroleum and natural resources in Islamabad and the chief secretary in K-P from September 1990 to July 1993.
Khan completed his education at the University of Peshawar and later obtained his Bar at Law degree from the Lincoln's Inn, London.
