Caretaker Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mohammad Azam Khan passed away on Saturday, a hospital spokesperson said. He was 89, according to Khan’s nephew Muhammad Ahmed Khan.
Rehman Medical Complex spokesperson Shabbir Shah confirmed the development to Dawn.com. The chief minister’s nephew said his uncle had invited him yesterday and discussed a plan to visit Charsadda University next Monday and was “absolutely fine”.
“I was making the arrangements [to visit the university], meanwhile news of his death arrived,” Ahmed told Dawn.com.
He added that the former bureaucrat was admitted to an intensive care unit last night after he fell unwell a day ago.
Khan took oath as the KP chief minister in January this year after the dissolution of the provincial assembly after PTI chief Imran Khan decided to quit the KP and Punjab assemblies where he was in power.
He was a Barrister-at-Law from Lincoln’s Inn, London, and had earlier served as minister for interior, capital administration and development in the caretaker cabinet of ex-premier Nasir-ul-Mulk in 2018.
He had also remained the provincial minister for finance, planning and development in the KP caretaker cabinet of CM Shamsul Mulk from October 2007 to April 2008 and served in key positions in the federal and provincial governments.
Before these stints, he had served as chief secretary from September 1990 till July 1993. He has also remained chairman of the Pakistan Tobacco Board.
Condolences
Sindh Governor Kamran Khan Tessori expressed his grief on the CM’s death and prayed for the deceased’s ranks.
PPP leader Faisal Karim Kundi said he was “deeply saddened by the loss” and sent his prayers to Khan’s family.
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