Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has appointed five more special assistants(SAPMs) taking the number of cabinet members to 83.
All the five special assistants to prime minister will enjoy the status ofminister of state. New SAPMs have not been assigned any portfolio. Theywill work on honourary basis without getting any salary. The actual numberof SAPMs included in the federal cabinet has now swelled to 38.
Those who have been appointed as SAPMs include Member National Assembly RaoAjmal, Shaista Pervaiz, Qaisar Ahmad Sheikh, Muhammad Hamid Hameed andMalik Sohail Khan.
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Now, federal cabinet comprises 34 federal ministers, 7 ministers of stateand 4 advisors