Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan Abbasi taking oath as Governor of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa at Governor House Peshawar. PHOTO: APP
Chief Justice Peshawar High Court Mazhar Alam Miankhel administered the oath.
Abbasi had been appointed as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s new governor on April 10.
He replaces Shaukatullah Khan who, according to sources, had submitted his resignation from the post to President Mamnoon Hussian on April 8. Khan was appointed by former president Asif Ali Zardari on February 9, last year.
PML-N Central Secretary General Iqbal Zafar Jhagra and Major (retd) Amir, who was part of the first government peace talks committee, were also running for the post.
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Shame..a poor country having so many officials. We call ourselves Muslims yet follow british law. While the American are using the Islamic system of governance.