Raja Pervaiz Ashraf sworn in along with his cabinet
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. Â 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.
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