KPK govt reshuffles provincial cabinet
Five new ministers have been inducted into the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Cabinet.
PESHAWAR (Web Desk) - The Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa government has announced reshuffle in the provincial cabinet.
Addressing a press conference here on Friday, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa information minister Shah Farman said that Mushtaq Ghani, Qalandar Khan Lodhi, Ikramullah Khan Gandapur and Ziaullah Afridi have been inducted into the provincial cabinet.
The portfolios of the new ministers are:
Qalandar Khan Lodhi: Food
Mushtaq Ghani: Higher Education
Ikramullah Khan Gandapur: Irrigation
Mian Jamshed-ud-Din: Excise and Taxation
Ziaullah Afridi: Mines and Mineral.
All new ministers belong to the ruling party Pakistan-Tehreek-e-Insaf. Qalandar Lodhi and Mushataq Ghani were elected members of PTI from Hazara Division, Ikramullah Khan Gandapur belongs to Dera Ismail Khan, Mian Jamshed-ud-Din from Nowshera while Ziaullah Afridi was elected from Peshawar.
Meanwhile, three members of KPK Assembly have also been appointed as advisor to the CM.
The advisers include Amjad Afridi, Shakeel Khan and Akbar Ayoub.
Four members of KPK Assembly including Ishtiaq Armar, Arif Yusuf, Mohibullah and Abdul Muneeb Khan, have been appointed as special adviser to the CM
Moreover, the KPK government has also decided to reshuffle the provincial cabinet.
Shahram Khan Tarakai has been assigned portfolio of health who, before this was Minster of Information Technology while Shukat Yousafzai has been assigned the Ministry for Industries.
The decisions were taken after the approval of party chief Imran Khan during a meeting of the PTI’s core committee two days earlier.
