Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has unveiled his 21-member Cabinet, most of whom previously held key posts in the Pervez Musharraf regime.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesman Fawad Chaudhry has said that out of the 21 names announced, 16 will be ministers while five others will be advisers to Khan.
The newly announced cabinet is expected to take oath at the Aiwan-i-Sadr on Monday.
Ministers
- Law and Justice: Dr. Muhammad Farogh Naseem
- States and Frontier Regions: Chaudhary Tariq Bashir Cheema
- Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony: Noorul Haq Qadri
- Human Rights: Dr Shireen Mazari
- Petroleum Division: Ghulam Sarwar Khan
- Defence Production: Zubaida Jalal
- Information and Broadcasting Division: Fawad Chaudhry
- National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination: Aamir Mehmood Kiyani
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Shah Mahmood Qureshi
- Ministry of Defence: Pervez Khattak
- Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs: Asad Umer
- Ministry of Railways: Sheikh Rashid Ahmed
- Inter-provincial Coordination: Fehmida Mirza
- Information Technology and Telecommunication: Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui
- Federal Education and Professional Training; National History and Literary Heritage Division: Shafqat Mahmood
- Water Resources Ministry: Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar
Advisers
- Establishment Division: Mohammad Shehzad Arbab
- Commerce, Textile, Industry & Production and Investment: Abdul Razak Dawood
- Institutional Reforms and Austerity: Ishrat Hussain
- Climate Change: Amin Aslam
- Parliamentary Affairs: Babar Awan
According to the 18th Constitution Amendment, the size of the federal cabinet should be not more than 11 per cent of the total strength of the National Assembly and Senate.
Imran Khan and his cabinet face a myriad of challenges including militant extremism, water shortages, and a rapidly growing population negating growth in the developing country, among others.
