16 dignitaries of former government part of PM Khan's cabinet
Muhammad Mian Soomro had served as the chairman of the Senate from 2003 to 2009 in Musharrafs rule.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – At least 16 dignitaries of previous governments have been included in the 47-member federal cabinet headed by Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan.
Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, the new advisor to the PM for finance after the cabinet reshuffle, and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi were federal ministers in the tenure of Pakistan Peoples Party’s (PPP) government from 2010 to 2013, and from 2008 to 2011, respectively.
Federal Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed was a member of federal cabinets of former premier Nawaz Sharif and former president Pervez Musharraf.
Furthermore, Fawad Chaudhary had been a spokesperson of the PPP and Musharraf.
Federal Minister for Federal Education and Professional Training, and Federal Minister for National History and Literary Heritage Shafqat Mahmood served as provincial minister of Punjab for Information from 1999 to 2000 during Musharraf’s military rule.
Besides, he had also served as Federal Minister for Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, Ministry of Environment, Urban Affair Forestry and Wildlife and Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development in the federal cabinet of Prime Minister Malik Meraj Khalid from November 1996 to February 1997.
The incumbent Federal Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination Fahmida Mirza served as the 18th and only women Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan from March 2008 to June 2013.
Muhammad Mian Soomro had served as the chairman of the Senate from 2003 to 2009 in Musharraf’s rule.
Azam Khan Swati was a member of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) party in the tenure of PPP.
The current Federal Minister for Power, Omar Ayub Khan, and the current Federal Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms, Khusro Bakhtiar had also served in the federal cabinet of Musharraf.
Ghulam Sarwar Khan was a member of the National Assembly from 2002 to 2007 in Musharraf rule, and again from June 2013 to May 2018 from PPP’s side.
Moreover, Firdous Ashiq Awan had served as a Minister of Information and Broadcasting between 2011 and 2013 in Zardari’s rule.
The current Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Inter-faith Harmony, Noor-ul-Haq Qadri, in November 2008, was inducted into the federal cabinet of then prime minister Yousaf Raza Gillani and was appointed as Federal Minister for Zakat and Ushr where he continued to serve until December 2010. He remained a member of the federal cabinet without portfolio from December 2010 to February 2011.
Zubaida Jalal Khan, the current Minister for Defence Production of Pakistan, was in the cabinet of Prime Minister Shaukat AziZ. From 2002–07, she was the minister of Minister of Education (MoEd) and unsuccessfully contested for general elections held in 2008 on a PML(Q) platform.
The current Federal Minister for Narcotics Control, Ali Mohammad Mahar, had served as the 25th Chief Minister of Sindh from 2002 to 2004.
Nadeem Afzal Chan, spokesperson of the PM Imran Khan, was elected to the National Assembly from Constituency NA-64 as a candidate of PPP.
