PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Friday appointed 18 more law officers, mostly affiliated with the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, including 10 assistant and seven additional advocates general and an advocate-on-record.

A notification to this effect was issued by the secretary law under section 3 (1) of the KP Appointment of Law Officers Act, 2014.

The freshly appointed additional advocates general include Mohammad Pervez Khan Tanoli (for Supreme Court Islamabad), Altaf Khan, Nadeem Shah, Syed Sikander Shah, Asad Jan Durrani, Taimoor Haider and Malik Amjad Inayat.

The assistant advocates general are Khanzeb, Naseeruddin Shah, Farhan Qadeer, Waqar Orakzai, Umar Khan, Irshad Ahmad Khan (for PHC Bannu bench), Wajahat Hussain Shah and Arbab Ifrahim (Abbottabad bench) and Imran Khan and Samiullah (Mingora bench).

Similarly, Faridullah Kundi has been appointed as advocate-on- record.

The present government has already appointed around 40 law officers in the advocate general’s office since it assumed power in Mar this year.

Published in Dawn, August 31st, 2024