PESHAWAR: Senior bureaucrat Abid Saeed is likely to be appointed as the new chief secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as the provincial government has agreed on his name, official sources said on Wednesday.

An official said the provincial government had received a panel of three names from the federal government, of which the name of Mr Saeed, a grade 22 officer presently serving as federal secretary ministry of Kashmir affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan, was approved.

The post had fallen vacant on Sept 20 after the federal establishment division had notified the repatriation of the then chief secretary Amjid Ali Khan on the request of the provincial government. The additional chief secretary, Mohammad Azam Khan, was assigned the charge of acting chief secretary in the meantime.

An official said that the decision of giving approval to the name of Abid Saeed as chief secretary was taken during the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan`s visit to the provincial capital on Wednesday. Bureau Report