{"id":13518,"date":"2023-01-20T18:11:06","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=13518"},"modified":"2023-01-20T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T18:11:06","slug":"azam-khan-unanimously-named-caretaker-kp-cm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/azam-khan-unanimously-named-caretaker-kp-cm\/","title":{"rendered":"Azam Khan unanimously named caretaker KP CM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Azam Khan unanimously named caretaker KP CM. In a surprising development, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and the opposition have reached an agreement on the name for the interim chief minister in the province.<\/p>\n<p>The name of former KP chief secretary Azam Khan was unanimously agreed upon in the meeting held to finalise the appointment of the province\u2019s caretaker CM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAzam Khan is our consensus candidate for the post of caretaker chief minister. We have chosen a person who is acceptable to all,\u201d said Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Pakistan-Fazal (JUI-F) leader Akram Khan Durrani.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/cm-khan-signs-summary-to-dissolve-kp-assembly.html\">CM Mahmood Khan signs summary to dissolve KP Assembly<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the development, KP Chief Minister Mahmood Khan said the name of a caretaker chief minister was unanimously agreed upon for the first time in &#8220;history&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe agreed on Azam Khan in consultation with our leader,\u201d Khan said revealing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI\"> Imran Khan<\/a>\u2019s nod for the candidate.<\/p>\n<p>The nominee has held the office of federal secretary for the ministries of religious affairs and petroleum. He had obtained his Bar at Law degree from the Lincoln&#8217;s Inn, London.<\/p>\n<p>While the KP Assembly\u2019s dissolution took place much later than the Punjab Assembly, the unanimous decision of naming the caretaker chief minister was done more rapidly in the northwestern province.<\/p>\n<p>In Punjab, meanwhile, the government and opposition remain at loggerheads over finalising the name of the interim chief minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Azam Khan unanimously named caretaker KP CM. In a surprising development, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and the opposition have reached an agreement on the name for the interim chief minister in the province. The name of former KP chief secretary Azam Khan was unanimously agreed upon in the meeting held to finalise the appointment of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[1164,8159,8160,3319,580,8109,1108,960],"class_list":["post-13518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-azam-khan","tag-cm-kpk","tag-jamiat-ulema-e-islam-pakistan-fazal","tag-jui-f","tag-khyber-pakhtunkhwa","tag-kp-assembly","tag-london","tag-punjab-assembly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}