MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 11: The AJK government on Thursday appointed former minister and ruling party leader Raja Farooq Haider Khan the chairman of the implementation commission. His rank and status will be equivalent to an AJK minister.

A notification, issued by the S&GAD department, said the government had accorded approval to the shifting of the officers and junior staff of the prime minister’s inspection commission to the implementation commission.

Raja Farooq Haider, who was twice elected legislative assembly member in 1985-90 and 1991-96, however, lost the recent poll to People’s Party’s senior leader Sahibzada Mohammad Ishaq Zafar.

He is considered a confidant of Prime Minister Sikandar Hayat Khan and also remained the secretary-general of the Sardar Sikandar-led faction of the Muslim Conference.

MILITARY SECRETARY: Lt-Col Khalid Baig was appointed military secretary to AJK President Maj-Gen (retired) Muhammad Anwar Khan, here on Thursday.