KP  Suffers Tragic Loss

APP

Peshawar: Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) former Secretary Kanwar Dilshad informed that the provincial cabinet has been dissolved after the death of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister and all the powers have been transferred to KP Governor Ghulam Ali.

Caretaker Chief Minister Muhammad Azam Khan died due to cardiac arrest at a local hospital on Saturday. His funeral prayer will be offered at Prang in Charsadda district at 3:30 p.m. today and will be laid to rest in his native town.

According to doctors and his family sources, Azam Khan was brought to a local hospital in Peshawar the other day after feeling severe pain in his chest and expired during the treatment process at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).

Khan took the oath as interim CM of KP on January 21,2023, following the dissolution of the KP Assembly in the same month by the then Chief Minister Mahmood Khan.

CM was nominated to lead the province by the opposition parties and his name was unanimously approved by the outgoing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government as well.

Azam Khan was a retired bureaucrat and Pakistan Administrative Officer who served in various key positions.He had served as minister of interior, capital administration, and development in the interim cabinet of former caretaker prime minister Nasir-ul-Mulk in 2018.

He was highly qualified and was a barrister-at-law from Lincoln’s Inn, London.

From October 2007 to April 2008, Azam Khan served as a finance, planning, and development minister in KP in the cabinet of CM Shamsul Mulk.

From September 1990 to July 1993, he also served as the Chief Secretary of KP and was also chairman of the Pakistan Tobacco Board.

The politicians and civil society have condoled the death of Azam Khan and prayed for his eternal peace.