Muhammad Khan Achakzai on Thursday took oath as the Balochistan governor in Quetta.
Balochistan High Court Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Isa administered oath to him. The new governor is one of the most prominent Pashtun political families of the province. His father, Abdul Samad Khan Achakzai, was an eminent personality of the province.
He is the elder brother of Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Chairman Mehmood Khan Achakzai.
Muhammad Khan Achakzai has served as a senior bureaucrat and economist in the federal government.
He got his early education at his hometown Gulistan and later moved to Quetta from where he got secondary education from the St Francis Grammar School (senior Cambridge). Later, he got his higher education from Howard Kennedy School (master’s in public administration), US, and University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland (MSc Economics).
He is also the member of the Pakistan Red Crescent Society.
He is fluent in Pashtu, Persian, Urdu besides English. His appointment as governor has been a part of the power-sharing formula among the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz, the National Party and the PkMAP under which the provincial government was formed and announcement to that effect had been made by PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif in Murree.
The PML-N chief had then announced Dr Abdul Malik Baloch as a consensus candidate for the CM’s slot. He had also announced that the next governor of Balochistan would be from PkMAP.
