Ashtar Ausaf, the Attorney General of Pakistan (AGP), has resigned from his position. According to sources, he left his position due to health reasons.
Ashtar Ausaf has been directed by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to continue working until a replacement is found. According to the sources, the government has begun the search for a new attorney general.
Earlier, the federal government named advocate him as Pakistan’s new Attorney General. The notification was issued following Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s approval of the appointment.
Ashtar Ausaf will take over for Khalid Jawed Khan, who resigned following the change in government.
After serving as Pakistan’s Attorney-General for two years, Khalid Javed Khan resigned last month following Imran Khan’s ouster as Prime Minister of Pakistan via a no-confidence motion.
Ashtar Ausaf, the Attorney General, resigns on ‘health grounds.’
Previously, from 2016 to 2018, Advocate Ashtar Ausaf served as AGP and also as a law adviser to former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
In 1993, he successfully defended the Sharif administration before the Supreme Court, which overturned the late president Ghulam Ishaq Khan’s dissolution of parliament. He previously worked as Punjab’s Advocate General for the PML-N government.
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