ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday appointed PML-Q MNA Chaudhry Salik Hussain as China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Authority chairman, ARY News reported.
Chaudhry Salik Hussain has replaced Khalid Mansoor as CPEC authority chief.
The appointment comes after PML-Q parliamentarian on Friday morning took as federal cabinet minister.
Those members who took oath as ministers include 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.
President Arif Alvi administered the oath to the newly inducted federal ministers in the swearing-in held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was also present on the occasion.
It is pertinent to mention here that Chaudhry Salik Hussain is the son of Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, President of PMLQ, a former allied party of the Imran Khan government.
Former president Asif Ali Zardari, a day earlier, met Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain to seek his consent for inclusion of his son in the federal cabinet.
Following are the names of the cabinet members:
- Khawaja Muhammad Asif, MNA
- Ahsan Iqbal Chaudhary, MNA
- Rana Sana Ullah Khan, MNA
- Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, MNA
- Rana Tanveer Hussain. MNA
- Khurrum Dastagir Khan, MNA
- Marriyum Aurangzeb, MNA
- Khawaja Saad Rafique, MNA
- Mian Javed Latif, MNA
- Mian Riaz Hussain Pirzada. MNA
- Murtaza Javed Abbasi, MNA
- Miftah Ismail
- Azam Nazeer Tarar, Senator
- Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, MNA
- Syed Naveed Qamar, MNA
- Sherry Rehman, Senator
- Abdul Qadir Patel, MNA
- Shazia Marri, MNA
- Syed Murtaza Mahmud, MNA
- Sajid Hussain Turi, MNA
- Ehsan ur Rehman Mazari, MNA
- Abid Hussain Bhayo, MNA
- Asad Mahmood, MNA
- Abdul Wasay, MNA
- Mufti Abdul Shakoor, MNA
- Muhammad Talha Mahmood, Senator
- Syed Amin-ul-Haque, MNA
- Syed Faisal Ali Subzwari, Senator
- Muhammad Israr Tareen, MNA
- Nawabzada Shazain Bugti, MNA
- Chaudhary Tariq Bashir Cheema, MNA
- Chaudhry Salik Hussain, MNA
- Agha Hassan Baloch, MNA
Ministers of state
- Dr. Aisha Ghaus Pasha, MNA
- Hashim Notezai
- Hina Rabbani Khar, MNA
- Abdul Rehman Khan Kanju, MNA
Advisers to the PM
- Awn Chaudhry
- Amir Muqam
- Qamar Zaman Kaira
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