Pakistani provincial caretaker chief minister dies at 89

Azam Khan became caretaker chief minister of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in January this year

By Islamuddin Sajid

ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province's caretaker Chief Minister Azam Khan passed away on Saturday, according to an official statement.

Khan, 89, was admitted to a local hospital in the provincial capital Peshawar last night, where he died on Saturday morning, his office said.

Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar described his death as "sad news" and said he was an honest man.

"The sad news of the death of the Caretaker Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Azam Khan was received. He was certainly an honest and good person," Kakar said on X while in Saudi Arabia for an extraordinary joint Arab-Islamic summit.

Khan took office as caretaker chief minister in January of this year, following the dissolution of the provincial assembly by former Prime Minister Imran Khan's party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

He was a bureaucrat and served as the province’s chief secretary from 1990 to 1993.

Khan also served as caretaker interior minister in the federal Cabinet in 2018 and as provincial caretaker finance minister in 2007.

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