{"id":78136,"date":"2020-11-27T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T14:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/?p=78136"},"modified":"2020-11-27T19:22:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T14:22:22","slug":"who-is-khalid-khurshid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/2020\/11\/27\/who-is-khalid-khurshid\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Khalid Khurshid?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u0413\u0438\u043b\u0433\u0438\u0442:<\/strong> Prime Minister Imran Khan has finalized a candidate for the slot of Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan, according to a tweet shared by Senator Saifullah Khan Niazi.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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How much do you know about the future Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan?<\/div>\n
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Here’s a short profile of the the Chief Minister-designate, Barrister Muhammad Khalid Khurshid Khan, compiled by Chilas based journalist Shahabuddin Ghauri.<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Born on November 17, 1980 in Rattu area of Shounter Tehsil in Astore District.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Matriculated from Public School and College, Gilgit.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Graduated from Faisalabad.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Received degree in law from the Queen Mary University of London, England<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Lost his first election for Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly as an independent candidate in 2009.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Lost his second election in 2015.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on July 28, 2018.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Appointed President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Astore-Diamer Division.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Won the 2020 election on PTI ticket from GBA 13, Astore 1, by a margin of 1,719 votes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Khalid Khurshid belongs to a well-known political family of Astore district.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 His father Muhammad Khurshid Khan had won an election held in 1971.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Haji Inayat, uncle of CM-designate Khalid Khurshid, served as the chairman of Astore-Diamer district council for three consecutive terms from 1981 to 1994.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u2022 Khalid Khurshid’s father Muhammad Khurshid Khan retired as Chief Judge of Gilgit-Baltistan in 2005.<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GILGIT: Prime Minister Imran Khan has finalized a candidate for the slot of Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan, according to a tweet shared by Senator Saifullah Khan Niazi. How much do you know about the future Chief Minister of Gilgit-Baltistan? Here’s a short profile of the the Chief Minister-designate, Barrister Muhammad Khalid Khurshid Khan, compiled by …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gilgit-baltistan"],"better_featured_image":{"id":78137,"alt_text":"","caption":"Khalid Khursheed, standing fifth from the left, during an election campaign (wearing dark-blue Shalwar Kameez) ","description":"","media_type":"image","media_details":{"width":960,"height":720,"file":"2020\/11\/Khalid-Khurshid.jpg","sizes":{"medium":{"file":"Khalid-Khurshid-450x338.jpg","width":450,"height":338,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Khalid-Khurshid.jpg?fit=450%2C338&ssl=1"},"large":{"file":"Khalid-Khurshid-600x450.jpg","width":600,"height":450,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Khalid-Khurshid.jpg?fit=600%2C450&ssl=1"},"thumbnail":{"file":"Khalid-Khurshid-260x250.jpg","width":260,"height":250,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Khalid-Khurshid.jpg?resize=260%2C250&ssl=1"},"medium_large":{"file":"Khalid-Khurshid-768x576.jpg","width":768,"height":576,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Khalid-Khurshid.jpg?fit=768%2C576&ssl=1"},"covernews-slider-center":{"file":"Khalid-Khurshid-936x720.jpg","width":936,"height":720,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Khalid-Khurshid-936x720.jpg"},"covernews-medium":{"file":"Khalid-Khurshid-720x380.jpg","width":720,"height":380,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Khalid-Khurshid-720x380.jpg"},"covernews-medium-square":{"file":"Khalid-Khurshid-675x450.jpg","width":675,"height":450,"mime-type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Khalid-Khurshid-675x450.jpg"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]}},"post":78136,"source_url":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Khalid-Khurshid.jpg"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pamirtimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Khalid-Khurshid.jpg?fit=960%2C720&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78141,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78136\/revisions\/78141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pamirtimes.net\/tg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}