Mahmood Khan inducts two unelected figure in his cabinet
PESHAWAR
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Mahmood Khan on Monday effected sweeping changes to his government, inducting a new set of faces on key roles in his cabinet.
According to a notification issued by the establishment department cabinet wing, Kamran Bangash, who had been promoted as provincial minister a few weeks earlier, has been given the portfolio of higher education archives, and libraries.
The chief minister also assigned Member Provincial Assembly (MPA) from Haripur district Arshad Ayub as provincial minister for irrigation.
Arshad Ayub is the brother of Akbar Ayub, the latter was also a minister in the provincial cabinet until July 2021 when he was asked to resign.
Zakat & Ushr minister Anwar Zeb Khan was given the department of the Zakat Ushr & Social Welfare Special Education and Women Empowerment.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister appointed Faisal Amin Gandapur as minister of local government election & rural development. Mr Faisal is the brother of federal minister Ali Amin Gandapur.
The chief minister changed the portfolio of his special assistant on energy and power Taj Muhammad Tarand to revenue & estate and assigned the Energy & Power department to Sahibzada Saeed Ahmad as special assistant to CM-KP.
Mr Sahibzada Saeed is a retired bureaucrat and presently serving as head of public strategic support unit at chief minister secretariat.
Meanwhile, a former senator from Muttahida Qaumi Moverment (MQM), Barrister Muhammad Ali Saif, who has joined the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), named the special assistant on information &public relation to Chief Minister Mahmmod Khan.
CM-KP has included two unelected figures in his cabinet, of these a former bureaucrat Sahibzada Saeed Ahmad and Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif.
