Owais Ahmed Ghani
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Haider Khan Hoti
Mohammad Saleh Bhootani
Owais Ahmed Ghani | |
|---|---|
| 27th Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | |
| In office 7 January 2008 – 9 February 2011 | |
| Chief Ministers | Shamsul Mulk Haider Khan Hoti |
| Preceded by | Ali Jan Aurakzai |
| Succeeded by | Syed Masood Kausar |
| 18th Governor of Balochistan | |
| In office 11 August 2003 – 5 February 2008 | |
| Chief Ministers | Jam Mohammad Yousaf Mohammad Saleh Bhootani |
| Preceded by | Abdul Qadir Baloch |
| Succeeded by | Zulfiqar Ali Magsi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 5 February 1951 Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan |
| Relations | Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar (uncle) Abdul Waheed Kakar (cousin) Safwat Ghayur (cousin) |
| Occupation | Politician Mechanical engineer |
Owais Ahmed Ghani (Urdu: اویس غنی احمد) is a Pakistani politician who served as the governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan in 2008-2011, having previously governed the southwestern province of Balochistan for four and a half years (2003-2008).
He is a mechanical engineer by profession.[1]
Ghani belongs to the Pashtun-Kakar tribe of and was born on 5 February 1951 in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. He is the nephew of Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, one of the founding fathers of Pakistan, son of his brother Sardar Abdul Ghani who was a career police officer. He is the cousin of General Abdul Waheed Kakar, former Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan as well of the martyred Commandant of the Frontier Constabulary, Safwat Ghayur.
He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Peshawar, graduating in 1971.
