ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan has allotted Defence MinisterKhurram Dastgir Khan the additional portfolio of Foreign Ministry on Friday.
The post of foreign minister had been vacated following Khawaja Asif’sdisqualification on April 26. The former foreign minister was disqualifiedby the Islamabad High Court under Article 62 (1)(f) of the Constitution forfailing to disclose his employment in a UAE company and the monthly salaryhe was receiving.
Dastgir was given the post of defence minister in August 2017 when PrimeMinister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi formed a new cabinet following Nawaz Sharif’souster.link>link>
The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) lawmaker from Gujranwala served asthe minister for commerce from 2014 to 2017.
Dastgir studied engineering at California Institute of Technology andeconomics at Bowdoin College before being elected to National Assembly in2008.