President Alvi accepts resignation of Gilgit Baltistan Governor Raja Maqpoon
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President Dr Arif Alvi has accepted the resignation of Gilgit-Baltistan Governor Raja Jalal Hussain Maqpoon, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
In a tweet uploaded on Saturday, President Arif Alvi said that he has accepted the resignation of Gilgit-Baltistan Governor Raja Jalal Hussain Maqpoon.
The President also nominated Gilgit-Baltistan Assembly Speaker Syed Amjad Ali as the new governor till the appointment of the new governor.
https://twitter.com/PresOfPakistan/status/1540618951062872065
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Raja Jalal Hussain Maqpoon had been appointed governor Gilgit-Baltistan on September 27 2018.
Maqpoon was the Gilgit-Baltistan chief of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).
The senior PTI leader from G-B will become the sixth governor of the northern administrative territory.
The post was vacated after Mir Ghazanfar Ali Khan had resigned as GB governor earlier in September, following a controversy triggered by an alleged leaked video.
Reporter Awais Kiyani