Firdous Awan takes charge as special assistant on information & broadcasting
Secretary Information and Broadcasting Shafqat Jalil and senior officials of the ministry received D
ISLAMABAD(APP) - Special Assistant to Prime on Information and Broadcasting Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan on Friday took charge of Ministry of Information and Broadcasting replacing Fawad Chaudhry.
Secretary Information and Broadcasting Shafqat Jalil and senior officials of the ministry received Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan.
Firdous Ashiq Awan expressed gratitude towards PM Imran Khan on twitter.
I welcome prime minister @ImranKhanPTI decision to appoint me as a Federal Minister for information and Broadcasting. I am truly humbled. #PakistanZindabad
— Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan (@firdous_awan) April 19, 2019
The Secretary Information gave the Special Assistant a briefing on the working of the ministry.
Firdous Awan started her political career in 1990 directed towards aiding the healthcare system in Pakistan.
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Later in her career she joined Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) as an Information Minister before joining Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in 2017, two years later.
Awan’s appointment comes after Asad Umar’s resignation, and several cabinet portfolio reshuffles under Imran Khan’s administration including appointments of Awan, Nadeem Babar, Zafarullah Mirza and Abdul Hafeez Shaikh.
In Dunya News programme Ikhtilafi Note , she said that former information minister Fawad Chaudhry did not lose the trust of PM Imran Khan. PM would not have reallocated him to another ministry if he had lost faith in him.
“Cabinet does not reshuffle on the news of media”, she said. “There has been reshuffling in every government”.
PPP and Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) government were also associated with technocrats therefore they are required for every government, she told Dunya News.
Information special assistant expressed that every field has different challenges. Relevant institutions were taken into confidence while talks with International Monetary Fund (IMF) were in session.
She asserted, “every individual has a specific role in the team and I believe in team work.”
“I am thankful to PM Imran Khan for showing confidence in me. It is his right to appoint someone a position”, she added.
