Anwaar-ul Haq Kakar, has been named the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan, days after the assembly was dissolved.

• A senator from Balochistan, Mr Kakar was born in 1971 in Muslim Bagh, Balochistan.
• He received his primary education from St. Francis School, Quetta and later enrolled in Cadet College Kohat. He has a Master's in political science and sociology from the University of Balochistan. 
• Mr Kakar will be the second person from Balochistan to assume the role of Pakistan's interim prime minister.
• He began his political career with the PML-N but left it after the end of the Nawaz government as a result of a military coup by the late General Pervez Musharraf in 1999.