Induction of five new ministers in cabinet: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government yet to issue notifications

Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf-led (PTI) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is yet to issue notifications of five newly inducted ministers after the cabinet was reshuffled on April 2. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government had inducted five new ministers and reshuffled the departments of two other cabinet members in a decision taken by the PTI core committee chaired by Imran Khan.
In the reshuffle, Shahram Khan Tarakai, who was holding the portfolio of minister for agriculture, was given the charge of Health department, while Shaukat Yousufzai, the health minister, was made the Minister for Industries. The sources privy to the development said both the ministers were in a catch-22 situation as they were verbally informed about their new ministries by the chief minister but they had not yet received notifications of their new portfolios.
Sources revealed that after the meeting between Imran Khan and about 22 disgruntled party workers, who had threatened to create a forward block, the notifications of the newly inducted ministers were stopped by Imran Khan. They said though Imran succeeded in wooing the enraged party workers, he was yet to break the ice for delaying the issuance of notifications of the new cabinet members, which he had approved a day before meeting the dissidents.
Some party insiders claim that Imran was told about some ministers interfering in transfers despite tall claims of the party that this practice would be abandoned. One of the examples given was that of the newly inducted Health Minister Shahram Tarakai who is yet to receive the notification of his new ministerial position, but who appointed one of his blue-eyed as medical superintendent district headquarter hospital Mansehra by removing a senior doctor.
They said Dr Niaz was removed by new Health Minister Taraki on the directives of PTI leader Muhammad Azam Khan Swati and replaced with a junior doctor. This correspondent tried to contact Tarakai and Azam Swati to get their views on the allegation but received no reply till the filing of this report. Provincial Minister for Information Shah Farman could also not be contacted despite repeated attempts to give his version on the inordinate delay in issuing the notifications of the new ministers.