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Pakistan: Prime Minister Khan Took Oath, Announces 20 Members Cabinet

By
M Ashraf Siddiqui
18/08/2018
in

Islamabad                                                                                                                                                                                            18 Aug. 2018

Newly elected Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Ahmad Khan, who took oath from the hands of President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain this morning Saturday 18th August 2018, announced this afternoon his 20 members cabinet team.

Federal cabinet consists of 15 ministers and five advisers will take oath at the Presidency in Islamabad on Monday morning as per Pakistani media reporting.

Following are the names of the Federal Cabinet members and their ministries:

Shah Mahmood Qureshi , Ministry of Foreign Affairs,               Asad Umar, Ministry of Finance,                             Pervez Khattak, Ministry of Defence,                                             Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Ministry of Petroleum              Zubaida Jalal, Ministry of Defence Production,                           Shafqat Mahmood, Ministry of Education                  Fawad Ahmed, Ministry of Information,                                       Farogh Naseem, Ministry of Law and Justice            Aamir Mehmood Kiyani, Ministry of Health,                               Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, Ministry of Railways, Fehmida Mirza, Ministry of Inter Provincial Coordination,     Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Ministry of IT                        Noor ul Haq Qadri, Ministry of Religious Affairs,                       Tariq Bashir Cheema, Minister of Safron                Shireen Mazari, Ministry of Human Rights

Following are appointed as Advisors

Abdul Razzak Dawood, Commerce, Textile, Industry, Production & Investments                                                              Mohammad Shehzad Arbab, Advisor -Establishment                                                                                                              Ishrat Hussain, Institutional Reforms and Austerity                                                                                                        Amin Aslam,   Climate Change and                                                                                                                                                Zaheer Uddin Babar Awan.  Parliamentary Affairs

Earlier this morning, President of Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath of Prime Minister at around 1000 AM at the Islamabad Presidency. There was no relative of Imran Khan and members of opposition parties who attended the ceremony. Imran khan is single brother of three sisters, none of the sisters were present on this occasion.

Among guests present on the occasion included Bushra Bibi, wife of Imran Khan, caretaker Prime Minister Nasirul Mulk, National Assembly Speaker Asad Qaiser, Army Chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, Air Chief Marshal Mujahid Anwar Khan, Navy Chief Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi, newly elected Punjab Assembly Speaker Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, former National Assembly speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza, singers Salman Ahmed and Abrarul Haq, actor Javaid Sheikh, 1992 champion cricket team, former cricketer Wasim Akram and cricketer-turned-commentator Rameez Raja,  Indian Cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu were also invited.

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