Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani has administered the pledge to civil ministers and ministers of state, who’ll form the press of recently tagged Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif.
The pledge- taking form began with the enumeration of the Holy Quran at the President House. Thirty-one civil ministers and three ministers of state took the pledge.
Shehbaz has also appointed three counsels, taking the total strength of the press to 37 members.
In a tweet, PM Shehbaz said that the civil press was formed after” thorough consultations”with PML-N supremo Nawaz Sharif and the government’s coalition abettors.
“It’s my hot stopgap that civil ministers, ministers of state and counsels will give leadership, and resolve the problems of the people. Work, work and only work is our aphorism,”he said.
According to Radio Pakistan, PML-N’s Marriyum Aurangzeb and Azam Nazir Tarar have been appointed the information and law minister, independently.
Ahsan Iqbal, also from the PML-N, has been appointed the planning and development minister.
Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan’s (MQM-P) Aminul Haque has taken charge as the information technology and telecommunications minister, APP reports. Haque had also held the same portfolio under the former PTI government.
Farther, PPP’s Hina Rabbani Khar was appointed the state minister for foreign affairs while PML-N’s Rana Sanaullah was given the interior ministry. PML-N’s Miftah Ismail and Aisha Ghaus Pasha were appointed as finance minister and state minister for finance, independently.
Federal ministers
- Khawaja Muhammad Asif (PML-N)
- Ahsan Iqbal (PML-N)
- Rana Sanaullah (PML-N)
- Sardar Ayaz Sadiq (PML-N)
- Rana Tanveer Hussain (PML-N)
- Khurram Dastgir Khan (PML-N)
- Marriyum Aurangzeb (PML-N)
- Khawaja Saad Rafique (PML-N)
- Miftah Ismail (PML-N)
- Javed Latif (PML-N)
- Riaz Hussain Pirzada (PML-N)
- Murtaza Javed Abbasi (PML-N)
- Azam Nazeer Tarar (PML-N)
- Syed Khursheed Shah (PPP)
- Syed Naveed Qamar (PPP)
- Sherry Rehman (PPP)
- Abdul Qadir Patel (PPP)
- Shazia Marri (PPP)
- Syed Murtaza Mahmud (PPP)
- Sajid Hussain Turi (PPP)
- Ehsan Ur Rehman Mazari (PPP)
- Abid Hussain (PPP)
- Asad Mahmood (MMA)
- Abdul Wasay (MMA)
- Abdul Shakoor (MMA)
- Muhammad Talha Mahmood (JUI)
- Aminul Haque (MQM-P)
- Faisal Sabzwari (MQM-P)
- Muhammad Israr Tareen (BAP)
- Shahzain Bugti (JWP)
- Tariq Bashir Cheema (PML-Q)
Ministers of state
- Aisha Ghaus Pasha (PML-N)
- Abdul Rehman Khan Kanju (PML-N)
- Hina Rabbani Khar (PPP)
Advisor to the PM
- Qamar Zaman Kaira (PPP)
- Amir Muqam (PML-N)
- Awn Chaudhry (PTI’s Tareen group)
The form was listed to be held on Monday, but it occurred that President Arif Alvi had refused to administer the pledge to the lawgivers, compelling the government to defer the form to Tuesday ( moment).
Before, a Dawn report, citing sources, had said President Arif Alvi was anticipated to go on leave on Tuesday over reported illness so that Sanjrani could administer the pledge. Preliminarily, the chairman had also excused himself to administer the pledge to Sharif on health grounds after which Sanjrani had taken over the responsibility.
On the other hand, some government abettors were said to be “ unsatisfied” over the demands they had extended to the government regarding distribution of ministries and other economic positions.
It was learnt that the Balochistan National Party (BNP) and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) would not join the press on Tuesday, as the BNP has indicted the government of not precluding violent incidents in the fiefdom, similar as the recent blasting on protesters in Chagai.
Also, JUI-F principal Maulana Fazlur Rehman has demanded immediate general choices after being annoyed over thenon-fulfillment of his demands regarding distribution of ministries and some indigenous posts like the services of the chairman and Senate president.
