Pakistan, April 20 -- Brigadier (r) Ijaz Shah has been appointed as the new interior minister by Prime Minister Imran Khan in his major cabinet reshuffle. Shah was given the ministry three weeks after getting a position in the PM's cabinet.
Earlier, he took oath as the minister for parliamentary affairs. He is one of several people accused by the late Benazir Bhutto of planning her assassination.
A career military officer, Shah retired in 2004 after a 38-year career that saw him rise to the rank of brigadier while serving with the 15 Punjab Regiment and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
He served as the director general of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) during the regime of military dictator General (r) Pervez Musharraf. From 2004 to ...