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Caretaker PM Anwaarul Haq Kakar presented guard of honour at PM House

ISLAMABAD, August 14 (SABAH): Newly appointed Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar was presented guard of honour on his arrival at the Prime Minister House, Islamabad on Monday.

Caretaker Prime Minister Amwaarul Haq Kakar inspected the guard of honour. National anthem was also played on the occasion.

Earlier, outgoing Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was also given guard of honour. He reviewed the guard of honour as the contingents of the armed forces presented a salute to him. Anwaarul Haq Kakar bid farewell to the departing prime minister.

It is worth mentioning here that Anwaarul Haq Kakar took oath of office as the 8th caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan on Monday.

He was elected as an independent senator from Balochistan province for tenure of March 2018 to March 2024. He is also one of the founding members of Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and was appointed as the central spokesperson of the party in 2018. While serving as Senator, he was the chairman of Senate Standing Committee on Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development and as a member of the Business Advisory Committee, Finance and Revenue, Foreign Affairs, and Science and Technology.

Earlier, he served as spokesman for the government of Balochistan from December 2015 to January 2018.

An avid intellectual, with keen insight on the issues faced by Pakistan, particularly Balochistan province, Anwaarul Haq Kakar has been sharing his perspective at academic and policy making platforms, both nationally and internationally. These include interactions with students and faculty members at Pakistan’s top-ranking universities, closed door sessions with the country’s policy makers, briefings to the country’s political and military elite, sessions on building the Balochistan narrative with the diplomatic corps based in Islamabad, as well as a significant number of nationally televised political talk shows.

Born in 1971, he hails from Muslim Bagh, Killa Saifullah district of Balochistan. Anwaarul Haq Kakar holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Balochistan. He is an alumnus of the prestigious National Security Workshop from the National Defence University, Islamabad. He is also Patron-in-Chief of the Voice of Balochistan, an independent perception building initiative he masterminded. Anwaarul Haq Kakar is fluent in English, Urdu, Persian, Pashto, Balochi and Brahvi.