ISLAMABAD: Lt-General (rtd) Muhammad Alam Khattak has been appointed as new Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has signed a summary, approving the appointment of Khattak as new governor.
Lieutenant General Muhammad Alam Khan Khattak, HI(M), TBt, was a Pakistan Army general who was the Commander of Southern Command based at Quetta.
He took over the command in October 2011 after staying as Chief of Logistics Staff (CLS) at the Army GHQ for two years.
He was previously in charge of the Frontier Corps as its Inspector-General and led it most notably in the War in North-West Pakistan from 2006 to 2008. Before that, he led the Quetta Infantry Division in the ongoing insurgency in Balochistan from 2004 to 2006.
Khattak will resign from the post of Defence Secretary after his appointment as the governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Khattak has replaced veteran PML-N leader Sardar Mehtab Abbas who resigned earlier this week citing health reasons. NNI