The newly formed 21-member federal cabinet of Prime Minister Imran Khan will take oath of their portfolios today (Monday). President Mamnoon Hussain would administer the oath to the federal cabinet here at the presidency which would be attended by lawmakers and other senior government officials.
According to PTI spokesman, the 21-member cabinet includes 16 ministers and five advisers. Among the cabinet members, Asad Umar has been given the portfolio of minister for finance, revenue and economic affairs, Shah Mehmood Qureshi minister for foreign affairs, Fawad Chaudhry minister for information & broadcasting, Pervez Khattak as defence minister, Noorul Haq Qadri as minister for religious affairs & interfaith harmony, Amir Mehmood Kayani as minister for health services, Shafqat Mehmood as ministry of federal education, professional training and heritage division, Dr Shireen Mazari as minister for human rights and Ghulam Sarwar Khan as minister for petroleum.
Moreover, Sheikh Rashid has been given the portfolio of minister for Railways, Dr Zubaida Jalal as minister for defence production, Fehmida Mirza as minister for inter-provincial coordination, Dr Farogh Nasim as minister for law, Tariq Bashir Cheema as minister for states & frontier regions, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui as minister for information technology and telecommunication, Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar as minister for water resources.
Among the five advisers to the prime minister, Dr Ishrat Hussain has been nominated as adviser on institutional reforms & austerity, Abdul Razzaq Dawood would be adviser for commerce, textiles, industry, investment & production, Arbab Shehzad would be adviser on establishment, Amin Aslam for climate change and Dr Babar Awan would be adviser on parliamentary affairs.