PESHAWAR: Senior Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader and former chief minister Sardar Mehtab Ahmad Khan would take oath as the governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa today.Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel will administer the oath to the new governor at the palatial Governor s House at 5pm. Sardar Mehtab has replaced Engineer Shaukatullah, who held the coveted post for almost 14 months.
A large number of PML-N activists are expected to attend the ceremony as they are very excited about the appointment of their party leader as KP governor.Sardar Mehtab would be the 24th governor after restoration of the provincial status of the province in July 1971 as it was dissolved on 14 October 1955 and replaced by the single province unit of West Pakistan.
Earlier, seven governors served the province from August 15 to October 14, 1955.
Sardar Mehtab will be the PML-N nominee in the Governor s House after Miangul Aurangzeb who was replaced in 1999 following the dismissal of the Nawaz Sharif government by Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf.Sardar Mehtab was also removed as chief minister at the time. Belonging to Abbottabad district, Sardar Mehtab is a seasoned politician and a loyalist of Nawaz Sharif.
He is a law graduate and remained the chief minister from 1997 to October 12, 1999. He also served as provincial and federal minister and senator. He returned to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly in the 2013 general election and became the opposition leader. He resigned as member of the provincial assembly after his nomination as governor.
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