ISLAMABAD – A sixteen-member federal cabinet has taken oath.
President Mamnoon Hussain administered oath to the new ministers of theiroffices at a simple but impressive ceremony at Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabadthis morning.
The ceremony was attended, among others, by Prime Minister Imran Khan,Speaker National Assembly Asad Qaiser, Advisors, leaders of PakistanTehreek-e-Insaf, and other prominent political and social personalities.
The new federal ministers and their portfolios are: Shahd Mehmood Qureshi,Minister for Foreign Affairs; Asad Umar, Minister for Finance Revenue andEconomic Affairs; Pervez Khattak, Minister for Defence; Fawad Chaudhry,Minister for Information and Broadcasting; Shafqat Mahmood, Minister forEducation and National History and Literary Heritage; Shirin Mazari,Minister for Human Rights; Amir Mehmood Kiyani, Minister for NationalHealth Services; ; Khusro Bakhtiar, Minister for Water Resources; NoorulHaq Qadri, Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony; FaroghNaseem, Minister for Law and Justice; Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Minister forInformation Technology and Telecommunication; Chaudhry Tariq Bashir Cheema,Minister for States and Frontier Regions; Ghulam Sarwar Khan, PetroleumDivision; Zubaida Jalal, Minister for Defence Production; Sheikh RashidAhmed, Minister for Railways; and Fehmida Mirza, Minister forInter-Provincial Coordination.
The cabinet also includes five advisors. They are: Muhammad Shehzad Arbab,Advisor on Establishment; Abdul Razak Dawood, Commerce, Textile andIndustry; Dr. Ishrat Hussain, Institutional Reforms and Austerity; AminAslam, Climate Change; and Babar Awan, Advisor on Parliamentary Affairs.