37-member Punjab cabinet takes oath
Pakistan
37-member Punjab cabinet takes oath
LAHORE (Dunya News) - Punjab Governor Balighur Rehman on Sunday administered the oath to the newly elected Punjab cabinet after a drama that ended with Chaudhry Parvez Elahi’s shock defeat in the contest for the slot as provincial assembly Deputy Speaker Dost Mazari decided not to count the votes of PML-Q lawmakers.
The oath-taking ceremony was held at Governor House which started with the recitation of the Holy Quran.
When Governor Baligh-ur-Rehman administered the oath, the venue reverberated
with political slogans.
The ministers are: Rana Muhammad Iqbal Khan, Mehr Ijaz Ahmad, Siddique Khan Baloch, Muhammad Kazim Pirzada, Chaudhry Shafique, Malik Nadeem Kamran, Yawar Zaman, Col (retd) Ayub, Chaudhry Iqbal Gujjar,
Mansha Ullah Butt, Tanvir Islam Sethi, Jehangir Khanzada, Rana Mashood Ahmad, Mian Mujtaba Shuja ur Rehman, Khawaja Imran Nazir, Bilal Yasin, Malik Saif ul Malock Khokhar, Fida Hussain Watto,
Rana Ijaz, Uzma Zahid Bukhari, Khalil Tahir Sindhu, Ghulam Qasim Hunjra, Rana Muhammad Tariq, Zaheer Iqbal, Zeshan Rafique, Sania Ashiq, Syed Hassan Murtaza, Syed Ali Haider Gillani,
Bilal Asghar Warriach, Qasim Langah, Malik Asad Khokhar, Ahmad Ali Aulakh, Sibtain Bukhari, Saba Sadiq, Ashraf Ansari, Imran Khalid Butt and Rana Liaqat Ali.
The ceremony was attended by a number of legislators, their relatives and friends and others.
According to sources, the members above 41 could not be the part of the Punjab cabinet. In order to adjust another four MPAs in the cabinet, four of the senior PML-N leaders have sacrificed over not becoming the part of the cabinet.
These four MPAs will be made ministers. They could not managed to take oath today as they could not make it to the Governor House on time, sources added.
Furthermore, in connection with law, oath could be administered to four more ministers.
