Sixteen ministers from Prime Minister Imran Khan’s 21-strong Cabinet were sworn-in on Monday as the formation of Pakistan’s federal Government was completed after the general elections.
President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to the 16 federal ministers. Newly sworn-in Prime Minister Khan was by his side.
The new Cabinet has 16 federal ministers and five advisers to the Prime Minister, most of them previously held key posts in the regime of former dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.
The ministers who took the oath include Shah Mehmood Qureshi as the Foreign Minister, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Finance Minister Asad Umer, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood, Health Minister Amir Kiani, Religious Minister Nooru Haq Qadri and Railway Minister Sheikh Rashid.
Other Ministers are Khusro Bakhtiar as Minister for Water Resources, Farogh Naseem Minister for law, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication, Chaudhry Tariq Bashir Cheema Minister for States and Frontier Regions and Ghulam Sarwar Khan Petroleum.