ISLAMABAD – Imran Khan likely cabinet members include PTI leader Asad Umerwho has come forward as a strong candidate for Finance minister post.

Shah Mehmood Qureshi is being considered for Foreign Minister.

Shireen Mazari is also interested for the post however possibilities existof her being made the Defence Minister.

Shafqat Mehmood is a contender for interior minister while the slot ofspeaker will be given to Sindh or Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Dr Arif Alvi is a top choice for speaker National Assembly while MalikAmeen Aslam will be the minister or advisor for environment.

Fawad Chaudhry will possibly become the Information Minister whereas theparty is considering giving Ministry of Railways to Awami Muslim LeagueChairperson Sheikh Rashid Ahmed.——————————

On July 25, millions of Pakistanis voted to elect a new government andprime minister in a peaceful elections held in free, fair and transparentmanner.

Around 800,000 police and military forces were stationed at more than85,000 polling stations across the country as the voting took place.

Pakistan is a country of approximately 207 million people, out of which thenumber of registered voters are about 106 million.

The voting for the Pakistan election, which took place between 8:00 amlocal time (8:30 am IST) and 6:00 pm (6:30 pm IST), saw more than 3,000candidates contesting for 272 general seats of the National Assembly, whilesome 8,000 candidates ran for 577 general seats of the four provincialassemblies – Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and Balochistan.

The PTI had taken the decisive lead by winning 116 seats against formerPrime Minister Nawaz Sharif s Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) andformer President Asif Zardari s Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) which won 64and 43 seats, respectively.