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Nasir Mahmood Khosa is a retired Pakistani

civil servant The civil service is a collective term for a sector of government composed mainly of career civil servants hired on professional merit rather than appointed or elected, whose institutional tenure typically survives transitions of political leaders ...

from

Dera Ghazi Khan Dera Ghazi Khan (), abbreviated as D.G. Khan, is a city in the southwestern part of Punjab, Pakistan. It is the 19th largest city of Pakistan by population. Lying west of the Indus River, it is the headquarters of Dera Ghazi Khan District and ...

who belonged to the

Pakistan Administrative Service The Pakistan Administrative Service, or PAS ( ur, ) (previously known as the District Management Group or DMG before 1 June 2012) is an elite cadre of the Civil Services of Pakistan. The Pakistan Administrative Service over the years has emerg ...

and served in BPS-22 grade, the highest attainable rank for a serving officer. He was promoted to the rank of

Federal Secretary The federal secretary (also referred to as the secretary to the Government of Pakistan) is the highest-ranking position in the Government of Pakistan, occupied by the most senior civil servant in a specific ministry or division. The secretary is ...

in 2010. Khosa has an outstanding civil service record, having held the most coveted bureaucratic assignments in the country. He served as the 22nd Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, as well as the administrative boss of two provinces as

Chief Secretary Punjab The Chief Secretary Punjab (Urdu: ), also referred to as CS Punjab, is the bureaucratic chief and highest-ranking official of the Government of Punjab, Pakistan. The appointment of the Chief Secretary is made directly by the Prime Minister of Pakis ...

and

Chief Secretary Balochistan Chief Secretary of Balochistan (Urdu: ), also referred to as CS Balochistan, is the bureaucratic chief and highest-ranking official of the Government of Balochistan, Pakistan. The appointment of the Chief Secretary is appointed directly by the Prim ...

. Khosa also served as executive director at the

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from 2013-2017. Khosa is the brother of former Chief Justice

Asif Saeed Khosa Asif Saeed Khan Khosa ( ur, ; born 21 December 1954) is a Pakistani jurist who served as the 26th Chief Justice of Pakistan from 18 January 2019 to 20 December 2019. He joined the Supreme Court as a judge on 18 February 2010 and prior to that ...

and Tariq Khosa, former director general of the

Federal Investigation Agency The Federal Investigation Agency ( ur, ; reporting name: FIA) is a border control, criminal investigation, counter-intelligence and security agency under the control of the Interior Secretary of Pakistan, tasked with investigative jurisdictio ...

. He is also the maternal cousin of former Governor Punjab

Latif Khosa Muhammad Latif Khosa (Punjabi language, Punjabi and ur, ) is a politician representing Pakistan People's Party who has been the Governor of Punjab, Pakistan, Governor of Punjab from 2011 until 2013. He is a lawyer by profession, having been ...

Nomination for chief ministership

On 28 May 2018, Khosa was nominated to become the caretaker Chief Minister of Punjab ahead of the 2018 general elections. He was nominated by

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI; ur, , ) is a political party in Pakistan. It was founded in 1996 by Pakistani cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The PTI is one of the thre ...

(PTI) to which

Shehbaz Sharif Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif (Urdu, Punjabi: , ; born 23 September 1951) is a Pakistani politician and businessman who is currently serving as the 23rd Prime Minister of Pakistan, in office since 11 April 2022. He is the current president of ...

agreed but PTI withdrew his name on 30 May 2018, followed by Khosa opting out and excusing himself from assuming the responsibilities of caretaker chief minister.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Khosa, Nasir Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Pakistani civil servants Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of Pakistan People from Dera Ghazi Khan District Baloch people

Nomination for chief ministership

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