New Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif’s 37-member cabinet takes oath

Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani has administered the oath to federal ministers and ministers of state, who will form the cabinet of newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. Thirty-one federal ministers and three ministers of state and as many advisers to the PM took the oath. The oath-taking ceremony began with the recitation of the Holy Quran at the President House.

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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)
Advisers to the PM
Qamar Zaman Kaira (PPP)
Amir Muqam (PML-N)
Awn Chaudhry (PTI’s Tareen group)

The ceremony was scheduled to be held on Monday, but it transpired that President Arif Alvi had refused to administer the oath to the lawmakers, compelling the government to postpone the ceremony to Tuesday (today).

Source: Dawn