Nasir Mahmood Khosa

Nasir Mahmood Khosa is a retired Pakistani bureaucrat from Dera Ghazi Khan who belonged to the Pakistan Administrative Service and served in BPS-22 grade, the highest attainable rank for a serving officer. He was promoted to the rank of Federal Secretary in 2010.[1]

Khosa has an outstanding civil service record, having held the most coveted bureaucractic assignments in the country. He served as the 22nd Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, as well as the administrative boss of two provinces as Chief Secretary Punjab and Chief Secretary Balochistan. Khosa also served as executive director at the World Bank from 2013-2017.[2]

Khosa is the brother of Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, a senior judge at the Supreme Court of Pakistan and Tariq Khosa, former director general of the Federal Investigation Agency.

Nomination for chief ministership

On 28 May 2018, Khosa was nominated to become the caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab ahead of the 2018 general elections.[3] He was nominated by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to which Shehbaz Sharif agreed but PTI withdrew his name on 30 May 2018,[4] followed by Khosa opting out and excusing himself from assuming the responsibilities of caretaker chief minister.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Profile: Nasir Mahmood Khosa". www.geo.tv.
  2. ↑ "Nasir Khosa does Pakistan proud as Chairman HR Committee of World Bank". The News. 2018-12-24. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  3. ↑ "Nasir Khosa nominated Punjab caretaker chief minister". Dawn. 2018-05-28. Retrieved 2018-05-30.
  4. ↑ "PTI's change of heart over Punjab interim set-up invites rivals' ire - The Express Tribune". tribune.com.pk. 30 May 2018. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
  5. ↑ Malik, Arif (31 May 2018). "Nasir Khosa recuses himself from Punjab caretaker CM post; PTI tables new names". dawn.com. Retrieved 31 May 2018.
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