The fresh inductees included Umar Ayub Khan, Ali Zaidi, Muhammadmian Soomro and Murad Saeed.
It
further said that Umar Ayub Khan will be given the portfolio of Energy,
Ali Zaidi will take the charge of Maritime Affairs, and former chairman
Senate Muhammadmian Soomro will be the Minister for Privatisation while
Murad Saeed’s portfolio would be announced later.
Sources
in the government informed that Murad Saeed would be given the status
of state minister and his portfolio would be decided later by the prime
minister.
With the fresh induction,
the federal cabinet would now swell to 23 while still the PTI government
has plenty of space for induction of new members in it.
Under
the constitution, Prime Minister Imran Khan could have a federal
cabinet comprising 10 percent of the parliament’s strength and the upper
limit of the cabinet size is 49 including five advisers and five
special assistants.
Prime Minister
Imran Khan was still keeping some very important ministerial portfolios
with him including the interior and some insiders in the government
informed that he would be inducting more ministers in coming days.
Recently
Prime Minister’s Adviser on Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan had
resigned after filing of a corruption reference against him by the
National Accountability Bureau.
In
his resignation, Babar Awan said that he would first get his name
cleared from the NAB case and then would hold any public office. Prime
Minister Imran Khan had appreciated his decision and accepted the
resignation.
PTI’s Naeemul Haq and
Iftikhar Durrani have been appointed as special assistant to the Prime
Minister on political affairs and media affairs respectively.
The Punjab government has decided expand the provincial cabinet.
PUNJAB---Nine
ministers with 5 advisers and assistants in the cabinet are to be added
just a day after it notified portfolios of five ministers. The
new ministers include Syed Saeed-ul-Hassan Shah, Meher Muhammad Aslam,
Syed Hassnain Gardezi, Muhammad Ajmal Cheema, Muhammad Ikhlaq, Ashfa
Riaz, Shaukar Lalika, Zawar Hussain Warraich, and Ijaz Masih. Abdul Hae Dasti, Faisal Hayat Jabwaba and Muhammad Haneef have been appointed advisers. Moreover, five special assistants have also been made part of the cabinet. They are Syed Rafaqat ali Gilani, Ameer Muhammad Khan, Khurram Khan Leghari, Umar Farooq, and Muhammad Sulman.
The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government last month announced 23 member provincial cabinet after Prime Minister Imran Khan conducted interviews of at least 40 aspirants at his Bani Gala residence.
