Raja Maqpoon takes promise as 6th Gilgit Baltistan governor

Justice Javed Iqbal, behaving arch of a Supreme Appellate Court, administered a oath. Maqpoon, who has now turn a 6th administrator of a region, is a provincial boss of a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI).

On Friday, Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan had quiescent from a governorship of Gilgit-Baltistan. Khan, who belongs to a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), tendered his abdication to President Arif Alvi.

At present, a segment is ruled by a PML-N supervision and a GB assembly’s tenure will finish in 2020.

Media reports suggested that a few days ago a deputy of a sovereign supervision had hold a assembly with Governor Khan and asked him to renounce from his post. Khan had motionless to renounce from his post to equivocate any controversy.

According to a GB Order 2018, a chairman comparison for a post of GB administrator should be a internal resident.

Maqpoon was degraded by PML-N claimant Akbar Khan Taban in a GB Assembly choosing from a Skardu subdivision in 2015 by one vote.

Earlier while articulate to Dawn, Maqpoon had pronounced that in a assembly hold in Islamabad final week he was asked to assume a GB governor’s office. However, he added, he had suggested that another chairman from a celebration should be deliberate for a post.

According to him, PTI comparison personality Jahangir Khan Tareen wanted him to be a GB governor.

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