PM Abbasi’s bloated cabinet sworn in
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi on Friday shaped a forty three-member cabinet with 27 federal ministers and 16 ministers of country, besides creating 5 new ministries and their divisions.
A few adjustments were made within the cabinet with induction of recent faces, whilst former indoors minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan did now not end up a part of the new high minister’s team, as he had already introduced.
Mr Abbasi ordered that federal ministers and secretaries in their ministries would no longer travel abroad on the same time and would have to tell his workplace previous to occurring overseas visits.
President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to forty three cupboard individuals at a ceremony attended with the aid of prime Minister Abbasi, country wide meeting Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, PM’s personal Secretary Fawad Hassan Fawad, diplomats and senior bureaucrats.
Following the oath-taking rite, the top minister chaired the first assembly of his cabinet and made some essential choices.
Portfolios have so far been provided to 39 cabinet contributors — 26 federal ministers and 13 ministers of kingdom.the brand new cupboard is larger than the final one, which had 36 contributors.
in keeping with the 18th charter Amendment, the size of the federal cabinet should be no longer greater than eleven in keeping with cent of the full electricity of the country wide assembly and Senate, this means that that the maximum wide variety is forty seven, no longer leaving much choice for the new prime minister for in addition inductions.
The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) controlled to get two federal ministries inside the new cabinet against one inside the remaining. Maulana Ameer Zaman is the second one leader of the birthday celebration inducted into the cabinet with the Ministry of Postal services. Akram Khan Durrani is the Housing Minister.
Absence of Daniyal Aziz within the ceremony turned into observed as his call become at the listing of ministers of state issued via the presidency. It became learnt that he became eyeing a full ministry and did now not agree to just accept the slot of Minister of country for Kashmir Affairs provided to him.
The call of ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) MNA Mumtaz Ahmed Tarar became replaced with Sardar Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari. the earlier respectable list carried the call of Mr Tarar, however no longer Mr Leghari’s. but, the oath as a member of the cupboard became taken by using Mr Leghari. Mr Tarar become supplied the Ministry of technological know-how and technology however, in keeping with the notification issued later, his name become not in the listing of ministers. He instructed sunrise that he had declined the ministry presented to him.
it’s far believed that Mr Leghari’s call changed into included in a bid to have a stronghold of the N-League in south Punjab by securing more seats of the countrywide assembly from the location within the wellknown elections scheduled next yr.
Within the 43-member cabinet, 11 belong to south Punjab — Awais Leghari, Syed Javed Ali Shah, Muhammad Baleeghur Rehman, Riaz Hussain Pirzada and Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan as federal ministers and Abdul Rehman Khan Kanju, Mohsin Shahnawaz Ranjha, Haji Muhammad Akram Ansari, Sardar Muhammad Arshad Khan Leghari and Muhammad Junaid Anwar Chaudhry as ministers of country.
Even though no legit listing of cabinet members with their portfolios was issued, it become to be had on the authentic website of the national meeting.according to the listing, Ishaq Dar, who has grow to be pretty arguable after the very best court sent his case to the national accountability Bureau for being concerned in the Panama Papers case, retained his office as Finance Minister.
Khawaja Asif, who served as defence minister in ousted high minister Nawaz Sharif’s cabinet, became foreign Minister. he’s the primary foreign minister on this authorities because the ministry was in advance overseen through Mr Sharif.Ahsan Iqbal took the oath as interior Minister and his previous ministry — making plans and improvement — will paintings at once under the high minister.
Mushahidullah Khan, who had been removed from the federal cupboard through Mr Sharif over his debatable feedback in opposition to the navy establishment, rejoined the cabinet as federal Minister for climate trade.Khurram Dastgir was given the ministry of defence and become replaced via Pervez Malik as commerce Minister.
Baleeghur Rehman, who was the minister of kingdom for indoors and training within the remaining cupboard, was accelerated as federal training Minister.A newcomer inside the cupboard, Hafiz Abdul Kareem, changed into given the portfolio of communications ministry and retired Lt Gen Abdul Qadir Baloch retained the ministry of States and Frontier areas.Sheikh Aftab and Akram Durrani also retained their ministries of parliamentary affairs and housing, respectively. Rana Tanvir Hussain will serve the Defence production Minister.
Ghulam Murtaza Jatoi will appearance after the ministry of industries and production and Riaz Pirzada will hold his previous ministry of inter-provincial coordination.
PML-N criminal wizard Zahid Hamid will stay law minister, while Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo and Khawaja Saad Rafiq will keep the ministries of posts and delivery and railways. Sardar Muhammad Yousuf will maintain non secular Affairs Minister.
Saira Afzal Tarar, who turned into minister of nation for countrywide fitness services and coordination in the last cabinet, wads made federal minister Marriyum Aurangzeb changed into given her preceding venture of Minister of kingdom for facts and Tariq Fazal Chaudhry of Minister of country for Capital management and development.Shahnawaz Ranjha, a former parliamentary secretary, changed into made a minister of nation.
Talal Chaudhry, another new induction, changed into appointed Minister of kingdom for indoors.
throughout the primary cupboard meeting, Mr Abbasi issued several directives to the ministers regarding the functioning in their ministries.
He stated the federal ministers won’t seek permission for travel abroad only if the go to became required inside the line of the overall performance in their duties related to their ministries and divisions. He stated the ministers should tell the top Minister office approximately the dates on which their authentic travel changed into required.
He said the ministers might have complete authority for allowing the ministers of kingdom and all officers working in their ministries, divisions, connected departments and self sufficient our bodies under their manipulate, however as a be counted of policy, a federal minister and secretary have to no longer travel at the same time except truly important, in which case the top minister have to be informed earlier.
