PM Shehbaz Sharif appoints eight more special assistants

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has appointed eight more special assistants including Raza Rabbani, Irshad Ahmed Khan, Faisal Karim Kundi and others, ARY News reported on Tuesday.

The premier appointed eight more special assistants including Iftikhar Ahmed Khan, Raza Rabbani, Irshad Ahmad Khan, Mahesh Kumar Malani, Faisal Karim Kundi, Sardar Salim Haider, Tasneem Ahmed Qureshi and Muhammad Ali Shah Bacha.

After the latest induction, the number of special assistants to the prime minister (SAPMs) will be increased from 17 to 25.

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In April, PM Shehbaz Sharif had inducted three more federal ministers and a state minister into his 37-member federal cabinet.

PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain’s son Chaudhry Salik Hussain, PML-N’s Mian Javed Latif and  Balochistan National Party-Mengal’s Agha Hassan Baloch, Hashim Notezai had taken oath as ministers.

President Arif Alvi had administered the oath to the newly inducted federal ministers in the swearing-in held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr. PM Shehbaz Sharif was also present on the occasion.

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With the inclusion of these lawmakers – belonging to BNP-M and PML-Q – the federal cabinet had become 39-strong.

It is worth mentioning that 37 ministers took oath in the first phase cabinet. Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani had administered the oath to the PM Shehbaz Sharif’s 37-member cabinet.