Islamabad (August 4, 2017): The federal cabinet is scheduled to take oath shortly. President Mamnoon Hussain will administer the oath to members of the cabinet at a ceremony at President House here.
According to the details, new federal cabinet going to take oath today. The new cabinet includes 27 federal ministers and 17 ministers of state, according to sources. Apart from retaining most members of the previous cabinet, the new cabinet includes five new federal and 10 state ministers.
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The new cabinet of Prime Minister Khaqan Abbasi has been finalized. Chaudhary Nisar who will not be a part of the cabinet will be replaced by Ahsan Iqbal.
According to details, Mushahid Ullah Khan has made his return in the cabinet and will be the Environment Minister.
The following are the names of just a few expected cabinet members:
Khawaja Asif: Foreign Minister, Ahsan Iqbal: Interior Minister
Khurram Dastgir: Defence Minister, Ishaq Dar: Finance Minister
Pervez Malik: Trade, Marriyum Aurangzeb: Information Minister
Tariq Fazal Chaudhary: Minister for CADD, Saad Rafique: Railways Minister while ministry for Petroleum will remain continue with PM Shahid Khanqan Abbasi.
Rana Tanveer: Water and power, Mushahidullah: Minister for Environment
Saira Afzal Tarar will continue hold the Health ministry.
Talal Chaudhary, Danyal Aziz, Junaid Anwar Chaudhary, Abudur Rehman Kanju, Khusro Bukhtiar will enjoy the slots of state ministers.
Arshad Laghari, Akram Durrani and Aijazul Haq will also be part of the federal cabinet.
The latest development comes hours after the PML-N’s top brass held two back-to-back consultative meetings at Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif’s Donga Gali residence.
The federal cabinet was dissolved after Sharif stepped down following a landmark Supreme Court ruling on the Panama Papers case.
The court in its July 28 concluded that Sharif had been ‘dishonest’ by not declaring in his nomination papers for the 2013 General Election ─ as required under Section 12(2)(f) of the Representation of the People Act (ROPA), 1976 ─ a salary of 10,000 dirhams receivable as chairman of the board of Dubai-based company Capital FZE owned by his son Hassan Nawaz.
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