The
caretaker administration in the Centre was denotified on Saturday soon after Prime Minister Imran Khan took the oath of his office.
In two back-to-back notif
ications, the Cabinet Secretariat r
elieved
caretaker PM Nasirul Mulk and h
is cabinet of their constitutional duties. The outgoing
caretaker cabinet comprised Abdullah Hussain Haroon, Syed Ali Zafar, Muhammad Azam Khan, Mian Misbah-ur-Rehman, Muhammad Yusuf Shaikh, retired Lt Gen Naeem Khalid Lodhi, Roshan
Khursheed Bharucha and Shamshad Akhtar.
Later in the day, through a third notif
ication, Mohammad Azam, a grade 21 officer of the Pakistan Administrative Service, was appointed as the secretary to the PM ‘with immediate effect and until further orders’.
Azam, who belongs to Mardan district, had joined the civil services in 1989. He has served as the additional secretary of the States and Frontier Regions Division in the past, and has worked closely with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government.
Published in Daily Times, August 19th 2018.
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