Cabinet of Pakistan
Shehbaz Sharif ministry | |
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2022-present | |
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People and organisations | |
Head of government | Shehbaz Sharif |
Member party | Pakistan Muslim League (N) Coalition Partners: PPP MMA MQM-P BAP BNP-M PML-Q JWP Confidence and supply: ANP Independent |
Status in legislature | National Assembly Coalition government 174 / 342 (51%) |
Opposition party | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf |
Opposition leader | Raja Riaz Ahmad Khan |
History | |
Election(s) | 2018 |
Predecessor | Imran Khan ministry |
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The Cabinet of Pakistan (Urdu: کابینہ پاکستان, Kābīnā-e-Pākistān) is a formal body composed of senior government officials chosen and led by the Prime Minister.[1] All cabinet members sworn in are designated Minister, and are seated at their respective ministries located in the Pakistan Secretariat.
The Cabinet Secretary of Pakistan serves as the administrative head of the Cabinet Division and reports directly to the Prime Minister.[2] According to the Constitution of Pakistan, the Prime Minister may dismiss members of the cabinet, but must do so in writing, and new appointees must again be approved by the Parliament. The cabinet meets weekly in Islamabad. The cabinet is granted constitutional power under Article 81D of the Constitution of Pakistan.[3] The existence of the cabinet dates back to Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan, who appointed civil servants and statesmen to his first cabinet. On April 10, 2022 Shehbaz Sharif's ministry was formed after Sharif was elected as Prime Minister by the National Assembly of Pakistan.[4][5]
Constitutional powers[edit]
There shall be a Cabinet of Ministers, with the Prime Minister at its head, to aid and advise the President in the exercise of his functions. The Cabinet, together with the Ministers of State, shall be collectively responsible to the Senate and the National Assembly. A Minister who for any period of six consecutive months is not a member of the National Assembly shall, at the expiration of that period, cease to be a Minister and shall not before the dissolution of that Assembly be again appointed a Minister unless he is elected a member of that Assembly: Provided that nothing in this clause shall apply to a Minister who is a member of the Senate. Provided that the number of Federal Ministers and Ministers of State who are members of the Senate shall not at any time exceed one-fourth of the number of Federal Ministers
— Article 81C-96D: The Federation of Pakistan; Part-III, Chapter 3: Federal Government, The Constitution of Pakistan[6]
Cabinet[edit]
Federal Ministers[edit]
Portfolio | Name | Party | Assumed office | Left office |
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Prime Minister
All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister. |
Mian Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif | PMLN | 11 April 2022 | Incumbent |
Minister of Defence | Khawaja Muhammad Asif | PMLN | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent |
Ahsan Iqbal Chaudhary | PMLN | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Rana Sanaullah Khan | PMLN | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Rana Tanveer Hussain | PMLN | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Minister of Information & Broadcasting | Marriyum Aurangzeb | PMLN | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent |
Khawaja Saad Rafique | PMLN | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Miftah Ismail | PMLN | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Azam Nazeer Tarar | PMLN | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Sardar Ayaz Sadiq | PMLN | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Khurram Dastgir Khan | PMLN | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Riaz Hussain Pirzada | PMLN | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Murtaza Javed Abbasi | PMLN | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Federal Minister | Mian Javed Latif | PMLN | 22 April 2022 | Incumbent |
Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah | PPP | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Syed Naveed Qamar | PPP | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Sherry Rehman | PPP | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Minister of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination |
Abdul Qadir Patel | PPP | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent |
Shazia Atta Marri | PPP | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Makhdoom Syed Murtaza Mehmood | PPP | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Minister of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development |
Sajid Hussain Turi | PPP | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent |
Ehsan ur Rehman Mazari | PPP | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Abid Hussain Bhayo | PPP | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari | PPP | 27 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Maulana Asad Mehmood | MMA | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Maulana Abdul Wasay | MMA | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Mufti Abdul Shakoor | MMA | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Muhammad Talha Mahmood | MMA | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Syed Aminul Haque | MQM-P | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Faisal Subzwari | MQM-P | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Muhammad Israr Tareen | BAP | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Nawabzada Shahzain Bugti | JWP | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Tariq Bashir Cheema | PMLQ | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Chaudhry Salik Hussain | PMLQ | 22 April 2022 | Incumbent | |
Agha Hassan Baloch | BNPM | 22 April 2022 | Incumbent |
Advisors[edit]
Advisors to the Prime Minister | |||||
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Name | Party | Portfolio | Status | Assumed office | Left office |
Qamar Zaman Kaira | PPP | Kashmir Affairs And Gilgit-Baltistan | Federal Minister | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent |
Amir Muqam | PMLN | Political and Public Affairs | Federal Minister | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent |
Aun Chaudhry | Independent | Tourism and sports | Federal Minister | 19 April 2022 | Incumbent |
Ahad Cheema | PMLN | Advisor for Establishment | Federal Minister | 9 June 2022 | Incumbent |
Special Assistants[edit]
Special Assistants to the Prime Minister | |||||
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Name | Party | Portfolio | Status | Assumed office | Left office |
Syed Fahd Husain | Technocrat | Public Policy & Strategic Communications | Federal Minister | 13 May 2022 | Incumbent |
Tariq Fatemi | PMLN | Foreign Affairs | Minister of state | 20 April 2022 | Incumbent |
Hanif Abbasi | PMLN | Federal Minister | 27 April 2022 | 2 June 2022 | |
Attaullah Tarar | PMLN | Narcotics control | 27 July 2022 | Incumbent | |
Muhammed Sadiq | Technocrat | Special Representative for Afghanistan | Minister of State | 27 April 2022 | Incumbent |
References[edit]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 February 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
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- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20091110133919/http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/part3.ch3.notes.html#81D Article 81D
- ^ "Pakistan to Vote in New PM as Ousted Khan Rallies Supporters". Bloomberg News. 11 April 2022.
- ^ Shahzad, Asif; Hassan, Syed Raza (11 April 2022). "Political change in Pakistan as Shehbaz Sharif seeks to become PM" – via www.reuters.com.
- ^ "Chapter 3: Chapter:3 The Federal Government". Retrieved 3 January 2013.
- ^ "PM Shehbaz Sharif's 37-member cabinet takes oath". Dawn. 19 April 2022.
- ^ "President Alvi administers oath to 4 new members of PM Shehbaz's cabinet". Dawn. 22 April 2022.
- ^ "Bilawal takes oath as federal minister". Dawn. 27 April 2022.