Peshawar, OCT 11: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on Saturday confirmed to have received the resignation of Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur.

The KP governor — in a post on X — said that his office received Gandapur’s handwritten resignation, dated October 11, at 2:30pm.

“After thorough scrutiny and legal formalities as per the Constitution [and] relevant laws, subject resignation will be processed in due course of time,” Kundi added.

Gandapur — a firebrand Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader — stepped down from the post of KP CM on October 8, hours after party leaders announced Sohail Afridi’s nomination for the post.

“In respectful compliance of the orders of my leader, and founding PTI chairman, Imran Khan, it is my honour to tender my resignation from the Office of the Chief Minister, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” he wrote in a post on X at the time.

Brigadier (retd) Muhammad Musaddiq Abbasi, special assistant to the chief minister on anti-corruption, delivered Gandapur’s resignation to the Governor House.

Governor Kundi had previously said that Gandapur’s resignation could be returned if any constitutional or legal ambiguity is found in it.