Islamabad (Staff Report): Brigadier (retd) Ijaz Shah, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) MNA from NA-118, Nankana Sahib-II constituency, has been appointed as the federal minister for parliamentary affairs, said Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry.
“President Arif Alvi has approved the summary sent by the PM and appointed Shah as the federal minister for parliamentary affairs,” confirmed Fawad Chaudhry in a tweet on Friday.
Shah was a close aide of former military dictator Pervez Musharraf and served as director general of the Intelligence Bureau from 2004 to 2008.
Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto had named Shah as one of the five people who should be investigated if she were assassinated.