Adviser to KP CM on information Ajmal Wazir resigns after audio leak
“I am unable to dispense my duties as the information adviser, therefore I am resigning from my post,” Wazir had said.
PESHAWAR: KP adviser to the chief minister on information, Ajmal Wazir Khan, resigned on Saturday, a day after an alleged conversation involving the adviser leaked to the internet in which it seemed as if he was accepting a commission from an advertising agency.
Kamran Khan Bangash has been given the additional charge of the portfolio of Information and Public Relations in addition to his office of Special Assistant to the Chief Minister on Local Government, Elections and Rural Development.
Geo News had earlier reported that Wazir had resigned due to ‘personal reasons’.
, adding that he had already forwarded his resignation to Chief Minister Mahmood Khan.
Another notification from the provincial government stated that the chief minister had ordered an inquiry into the audio leak. “I am unable to dispense my duties as the information adviser, therefore I am resigning from my post,” Wazir had said
“Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has desired to process a case for a fact-finding inquiry into the recently surfaced audiotape of Ajmal Khan Wazir, former advisor to the chief minister for information and public relation,” the notification read.
Wazir hails from the Shakai valley in South Waziristan and had joined the PTI just before the General Elections in July 2018. He was previously the central vice-president of the PML-Q.
Wazir took the leading role in KP when it came to addressing the coronavirus pandemic in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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