Qamar Zaman Kaira

Dienstag, 05. Januar 1960

Qamar Zaman Kaira (Urdu: قمر زمان کائرہ; 5 January 1960) is the former Minister of Information and Mass-Media Broadcasting in the Government of Pakistan. Before heading the ministry of Information, Kaira was the minister of the ministry of Kashmir and Northern Areas and later ascended as acting Governor of Gilgit–Baltistan in 2009. His career in the national politics started in 2002 on a platform of Pakistan Peoples Party and has pioneered many articles on political philosophy and raised a voice for democracy in the country. After succeeding Sherry Rehman as minister of information in 2009, he lost his ministry in 2011 to Firdous Ashiq Awan. However, in 2012, he was again reappointed in the ministry of information after a cabinet reshuffle.His son Osama Zaman Kaira died in a road accident