ISLAMABAD – The 19-member federal cabinet of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Monday took oath amid political and economic challenges.
Newly-elected President Asi Ali Zardari administered the oath to the federal cabinet members at a ceremony, which was held at the President House.
The premier has decided to start working with the limited cabinet in the first phase and it will be expanded in the second phase.
Federal and State Ministers
Those who have taken oath as the federal state ministers are following:
Khawaja Asif
Ahsan Iqbal
Rana Tanveer Hussain
Azam Nazir Tarar
Attaullah Tarar
Chaudhry Salik Hussain
Abul Aleem Khan
Jam Kamal Khan
Amir Muqam
Sardar Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari
Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui
Qaiser Ahmed Sheikh
Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada
Ahad Cheema
Muhammad Aurangzeb
Ishaq Dar
Mohsin Naqvi
Shaza Fatima
The premier is yet to announce the portfolios to be given to the ministers. He has called a meeting of the cabinet for later today.
HBL CEO Aurangzeb Khan is expected to oversee the Ministry of Finance while the interior ministry would be given to Mohsin Naqvi.
Reports said former finance minister Ishaq Dar would be given the Ministry of Foreign Affairs while Tariq Fatemi would also be named as a special assistant to the prime minister on foreign affairs.
Khawaja Asif will be given the Defence Ministry, Attaullah Tarar, information ministry and PML-N Senator Azam Tarar will be oversee the Ministry of Law.
Shaza Fatima will be named as minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication while the portfolio of the Petroleum Ministry would be given to Musadik Malik.
Former bureaucrat Ahad Cheema, former Balochistan chief minister Jam Kamal and PML-Quaid’s Chaudhry Salik Hussain would also be inducted into the cabinet.
Istehkam-e-Pakistan Party (IPP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) would also be given share in the cabinet.
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