*ISLAMABAD – The federal minister Tariq Bashir Cheema has been given a newimportant portfolio by the PTI government.*
Tariq Bashir Cheema’s portfolio has been changed from Federal Minister forStates and Frontier Regions (SAFRON) to Federal Minister of Housing andWorks.
Cheema had sworn in in the cabinet of Prime Minister Imran Khan on August20, as the Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions, who will nowserve as the Federal Minister of Housing and Works.
PM Imran’s 21-strong cabinet includes 16 federal ministers.
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The ministers inducted into PM Imran’s cabinet include Mohammad FaroghNaseem (Minister of Law and Justice); Pervez Khattak (Minister of Defence);Shah Mehmood Qureshi (Minister of Foreign Affairs); Asad Umar (Minister ofFinance, Revenue and Economic Affairs); Shiekh Rashid Ahmed (Minister forRailways); Zubaida Jalal (Minister of Defence Production);
Fawad Chaudhry (Minister of Information, Broadcasting and NationalHeritage); Fahmida Mirza (Minister of Inter Provincial Coordination);Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui (Minister of Information Technology andTelecommunication); Shireen Mazari (Minister of Human Rights); ShafqatMahmood (Minister of Federal Education and Heritage); Aamir Mehmood Kiyani(Minister of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination);Noor-ul-Haq Qadri (Minister of Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony);Ghulam Sarwar Khan (Minister of Petroleum Division); and Makhdoom KhusroBakhtiar (Minister for Water Resources).
