Sardar Mehtab Abbasi appointed KP Governor

PESHAWAR: Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan Abbasi has been appointed as new Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

President Mamnoon Hussain signed the summary of Sardar Mehtab as new governor moved by Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif.

On Tuesday, Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan Abbasi had resigned from his provincial assembly seat.

Sardar Mehtab replaces Engineer Shaukatullah who resigned from the post on April 8.

Former president Asif Ali Zardari had appointed Shaukatullah on February 11, 2013 by removing Barrister Masood Kauser.