"You can't fire me! I quit!"
"Mahmoud, help him on with his coat!" |
President Pervez Musharraf has formally accepted NWFP Governor Lt Gen (r) Syed Iftikhar Hussian Shah's resignation and appointed Khalilur Rehman, deputy chairman of the Senate, the new governor of the province. Shah handed in his resignation in the first week of March and the president accepted it on Friday, according to an official press release. It said that President Musharraf had asked Shah to continue in his office till the new governor took charge of his duties. Shah had citied personal reasons for his resignation. |