ISLAMABAD: Raja Pervaiz Ashraf took oath as the new Prime Minister (PM) Pakistan late on Friday.

President Asif Ali Zardari administered the oath ceremony of newly appointed PM.

The ceremony took place at the President’s House in Islamabad.

Following the PM’s oath, Minister’s of the cabinet were sworn in. The 38 member Cabinet included 27 Federal Ministers and 11 State Ministers. The Federal Ministers are as follows:

1. Farooq Naek

2. Ahmed Mukhtar

3. Mola Bux Chandio

4.  Khurshid Shah

5. Ghulam Ahmed Bilour

6. Pervaiz Ellahi

7. Naveed Qamar

8. Farooq Sattar

9. Nazar Mohammad Gondal

10. Babar Ghori

11. Changaiz Khan Jamali

12. Mir Hazar Khan Bijrani

13. Makhdoom Amin Fahim

14. Rana Mohammad Farooq Saeed

15. Firdaus Ashiq Awan

16. Israrullah Zehri

17. Qamar Zaman Kaira

18. Makhdoom Shahabuddin

19. Engineer Shaukatullah

20. Haji Khuda Bux Rajar

21. Hina Rabbani Khar

22. Samina Ghurki

23. Sardar Umar Gorgage

24. Mian Manzoor Watto

25. Hafeez Shiekh

26. Arbab Alamgir

27. Farzana Raja

The State Ministers included:

1. Abbas Khan Afridi

2. Dost Mohammad Mazari

3. Sardar Saleem Haider

4. Malik Emaad

5. Samsaam Bukhari

6. Imtiaz Safdar Warraich

7. Malik Azmat Khan

8. Muazzam Khan Jatoi

9. Raheela Baloch

10. Dr. Nadeem Ahsaan

11. Tasneem Ahmed Quershi

President Zardari specially thanked all the coalition partners and stated that the PM’s election was a democratic victory. The President further lauded the efforts National Assembly Speaker, Fehmida Mirza, for swiftly running the election proceedings. Zardari was also full of praise for former PM Yousuf Raza Gilani as he stated that Gilani had to face several hurdles for maintaining the democracy.