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 on 17th May 2019 in Lala Musa in an attempt to save a motorcyclist, losing control of the car and crashing into a nearby tree.