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Imran appoints close aide as special assistant
Prime Minister Imran Khan has appointed his close aide Zulfiqar Hussain Bukhari as his special assistant on overseas Pakistanis and human resource development. Bukhari will get the status of a minister of state in his role as the special assistant, it was announced on Tuesday. A notification issued by the cabinet division stated, “The Prime […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan has appointed his close aide Zulfiqar Hussain Bukhari as his special assistant on overseas Pakistanis and human resource development.
Bukhari will get the status of a minister of state in his role as the special assistant, it was announced on Tuesday.
A notification issued by the cabinet division stated, “The Prime Minister has been pleased to appoint, with effect from [Sept 14, 2018]], Sayed Zulfiqar Abbas Bukhari as Special Assistant on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development, with the status of minister of state.”
As his close aide, Bukhari was in charge of the PTI chairman’s campaign in NA-53 for the July 25 election. He is a dual British-Pakistani national, who first came to the limelight when he was stopped by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) at Nur Khan Airbase while accompanying Khan to Saudi Arabia because his name was on the interior ministry’s blacklist. However, the ministry later allowed him to travel abroad.
Apparently, his name was placed on the Exit Control List (ECL) by the Interior ministry in August on a request of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). The decision was taken to aid investigation in a case of alleged offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands. He was also accused of owning assets beyond his known sources of income.
Published in Daily Times, September 19th 2018.
