ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Muhammad Mian Soomrorefused to take the oath as state minister on Tuesday.
Upset over being inducted state instead of federal minister, the PTI leaderreturned to Karachi from the capital without taking the oath as cabinetmember.
The federal government had decided to induct Soomro as the Federal Ministerfor Privatisation.
However, sources said that Soomro was informed a few hours before theoath-taking ceremony that he was being inducted as state minister.
Sources close to Soomro said, “He has served on top posts such as formercaretaker prime minister and former Senate chairman and feels it is notappropriate that he be appointed state minister.”
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Earlier today, six new ministers — three federal and three state — weresworn in to the cabinet.
Umar Ayub Khan, Ali Muhammad Khan Mehar and Syed Ali Haider Zaidi took theoath as federal ministers while Muhammad Shabir Ali, Murad Saeed andMuhammad Hammad Azhar were inducted as state ministers.
