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PTI's Mehmood Khan elected KP CM
August 16, 2018
PESHAWAR, Aug 16 (INP): Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Mehmood Khan was elected as new Chief Minister of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) for next five year on Thursday.
During the session under the supervision of newly-elected Speaker Mushtaq Ghani, members of provincial assembly confidentially cast the votes for their favorite candidate.
[timed-content-server show="08/17/2018 01:00 Asia/Karachi"]After the counting, PTI nominee Mehmood Khan was declared victorious with 77 votes while opposition’s candidate Mian Nisar Gul of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal faced defeat with 33 votes. Mehmood Khan was born in Matta Tehsil of Swat in 1972. He got early education from Government Primary School Matt and then obtained certificate of Matriculation from Peshawar Public School. He did his masters from Agriculture University of Peshawar. From 2007 to 2012, he had been Nazim Union Council Khariri of Tehsil Matta. He is a prominent politician from Swat who elected as MPA on PK 8 in 2013. He held portfolios of sports, culture, and irrigation in the cabinet of Pervaiz Khattak. He has also been KP irrigation and home minister but for a very brief period of time. In general election 2018, he bagged 25,697 votes from PK-8. He is the President of PTI Malakand Division. INP/LK/AJ[/timed-content-server]Related Articles