Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s (PML-N) senior vice president Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan have been appointed as the new governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday.
President Mamnoon Hussain appointed Sardar Mehtab on the advice of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. The cabinet division has also issued a notification for the appointment of Sardar Mehtab.
Earlier on Tuesday, Mehtab had tendered his resignation from the KP assembly seat after his nomination by the federal government as governor of the province.
He succeeded outgoing governor Engineer Shaukatullah who resigned from the post on Tuesday. Sardar Mehtab is likely to take oath of office in Peshawar tomorrow.
Hailing from Abbottabad District, Sardar Mehtab is the Senior Vice President of PML-N. He was KP’s former chief minister from 1997 to 1999 and Railways federal minister in the 2008 PM Yousaf Raza Gillani cabinet. He has served as a senator from March 2003, but resigned on March 17, 2008, when he won the NA-17 Abbottabad-I National Assembly seat in the 2008 general election, held on February 18, 2008.
Whilst, US officials have toned down the number of civilian deaths and have stressed the number of militants killed, the residents of the tribal areas tell a different version of the statics.
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