Cabinet to take oath today

31 Mar, 2008

The new federal cabinet will take oath in a special ceremony at Aiwan-e-Sadar on Monday. President Pervez Musharraf will administer the oath to cabinet members. The PPP-led coalition has finalised the names of cabinet members.
According to PPP sources, there will be eleven ministers from the Pakistan Peoples Party, who include Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Syed Khursheed Ahmad Shah, Sherry Rehman, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Syed Naveed Qamar, Farooq H Naik, Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Najamuddin Khan, Nazar Mohammad Gondal and Humayun Aziz.
The PML-N has nominated Chaudhary Nisar Ali Khan, Ishaq Dar, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Ahsan Iqbal, Rana Tanveer Hussain, Sardar Mehtab Abbasi, Shahid Khaqaan Abbassi, Khawaja Saad Rafiq and Tehmina Daultana for the federal ministries.
ANP's, Ghulam Ahmad Bilour and Khawaja Muhammad Khan Hoti, and Talha Mahmood from JUI-F and Hameed Khan Afridi from Fata will be incorporated in the cabinet.

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