New cabinet take oath in Pakistan

Pakistan’s new federal cabinet members took oath on 4th August morning at the President House in Islamabad.

President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to 46 members of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's cabinet comprising mostly old faces but with some reshuffled portfolios.

The cabinet is comprised of 28 federal ministers and 18 state ministers. Khawaja Muhammad Asif will serve as the country’s new foreign minister whereas Ahsan Iqbal will be in charge of the interior ministry. PML-N top leadership failed to convince Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan to join Abbasi’s cabinet.

Ishaq Dar will continue as finance minister whereas Pervez Malik will be the new minister for commerce in place of Khurram Dastagir Khan, who will take charge of the defence ministry.

Daniyal Aziz from Narowal, Talal Chaudhry from Faisalabad, Arshad Leghari from Rahim Yar Khan and Junaid Anwar Chaudhry from Toba Tek Singh are among the newcomers in the cabinet.

Marriyum Aurangzeb, Zahid Hamid and Dr Tariq Fazal Chaudhry are expected to retain their previous portfolios, as Information and Law ministry respectively.

PMl-N's information secretary Mushahidullah Khan returned to the cabinet as minister of climate change.