{"id":61790,"date":"2024-03-11T13:37:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=61790"},"modified":"2024-03-11T13:37:20","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T08:37:20","slug":"pm-shehbaz-proposes-19-member-cabinet-to-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/pm-shehbaz-proposes-19-member-cabinet-to-president\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Shehbaz proposes 19-member cabinet to president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has suggested newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari to appoint a 19-member cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>According to a letter written by the premier to Zardari, the cabinet includes 12 MNAs and 3 senators as federal ministers, as well as Shaza Fatima Khawaja as a minister of state.<\/p>\n<p>Familiar faces returning include ex-defence minister Khawaja Asif, former finance minister Ishaq Dar, ex-planning minister Ahsan Iqbal, former law minister Azam Nazeer Tarar and ex-state minister for petroleum Musadik Malik.<\/p>\n<p>Istehkam-i-Pakistan Party leader Aleem Khan and Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan\u2019s Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui are also among the names for federal ministers.<\/p>\n<p>New faces to serve in the federal cabinet include former caretaker Punjab chief minister Mohsin Raza Naqvi, who is also the Pakistan Cricket Board chief currently.<\/p>\n<p>Other names for federal ministers include PML-N\u2019s Jam Kamal Khan, Amir Muqam, Sardar Awais Leghari, Attallah Tarar, Qaiser Ahmed Sheikh and Riaz Hussain Pirzada, as well as the PML-Q\u2019s Chaudhry Salik Hussain.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad Aurangzeb, presumably the HBL chief, and former PM\u2019s aide Ahad Khan Cheema have also been suggested as federal ministers. The appointment of ex-PM\u2019s aide on youth affairs Shaza Fatima Khawaja as a minister of state has been advised too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has suggested newly elected President Asif Ali Zardari to appoint a 19-member cabinet. According to a letter written by the premier to Zardari, the cabinet includes 12 MNAs and 3 senators as federal ministers, as well as Shaza Fatima Khawaja as a minister of state. Familiar faces returning include ex-defence minister &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61791,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61790\/revisions\/61791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}