ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday chaired the primary assembly of his Cabinet all through which strategies to shape the brand new Pakistan government's insurance policies were mentioned, hours after the President administered oath to his 21-member workforce.
Khan, who used to be sworn-in as Pakistan's 22nd Prime Minister on Saturday has vowed to initiate large financial and tax reforms, launch an austerity drive to cut deficit, curb corruption and produce back laundered money.
The 65-year-old cricketer-turned-politician chaired the primary assembly of his Cabinet on the Prime Minister's Office.
The Cabinet mentioned strategies to shape the brand new government's insurance policies, state-run Radio Pakistan reported.
Following the Cabinet assembly, Khan met with Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Zubair Mahmood Hayat on the PMO, the record stated.
Earlier, 16 ministers from Prime Minister Khan's 21-strong Cabinet were sworn-in by way of President Mamnoon Hussain, who administered the oath to them.
The new Cabinet has 16 federal ministers and 5 advisers to the prime minister, most of them previously held key posts within the regime of former dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.
The ministers who took the oath include Shah Mehmood Qureshi as the Foreign Minister, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Finance Minister Asad Umer, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood, Health Minister Amir Kiani, Religious Minister Nooru Haq Qadri and Railway Minister Sheikh Rashid.
Other ministers are Khusro Bakhtiar as Minister for Water Resources, Farogh Naseem Minister for Law, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication, Chaudhry Tariq Bashir Cheema Minister for States and Frontier Regions and Ghulam Sarwar Khan Minister for Petroleum.
Three women ministers together with Fehmida Mirza minister for inter-provincial coordination, Zubaida Jala defence production and Shireen Mazari human rights minister also took the oath.
Qureshi, the vp of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf birthday party, used to be the foreign minister from 2008 to 2011 below the Pakistan Peoples Party government when the 2008 Mumbai terror attack came about.
He used to be in New Delhi when 10 Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists attacked India's monetary capital.
Finance Minister Umer is the son of former Lt Gen Mohammad Umer who used to be part of the Pakistan Army all through 1971 warfare with India.
After taking the oath, Umer instructed media that government will deal with instant issues like present account deficit but also take long term measures to mend all problems.
"We will bring structural changes so that recurrent crises are avoided," he stated.
Defence Minister Khattak stated the Cabinet will paintings 12 hours on a daily basis to satisfy the schedule set out by way of Prime Minister Khan.
"We will bring peace in the country by working day and night," he stated.
Information minister Chaudhry stated that primary adjustments will be introduced in state media to make it impartial.
Those who've been appointed as advisers to the prime minister are former regulation minister within the PPP government Babar Awan (parliamentary affairs); former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief secretary Shehzad Arbab (established order department); former minister within the regime of Gen Musharraf Abdul Razzak Dawood (trade, textile, industry amd production and investment); Ishrat Husain (institutional reforms and austerity) and Amin Aslam (climate change).
At least 12 members of Khan's Cabinet served below General (retd) Musharraf.
Khan, the Chairman of PTI, used to be administered the oath of place of business by way of President Hussain at a easy ceremony in Islamabad on Saturday.
Khan's government is the third consecutive democratic government in Pakistan since 2008 when Gen Musharraf introduced elections after serving as president from 2001 to 2008 following a cold coup in 1999.
The PPP formed the federal government in 2008, adopted by way of the PML-N led by way of jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in 2013.
Pakistan's tough army has dominated the rustic thru more than a few coups for just about half of the rustic's history since independence in 1947.
Khan, who used to be sworn-in as Pakistan's 22nd Prime Minister on Saturday has vowed to initiate large financial and tax reforms, launch an austerity drive to cut deficit, curb corruption and produce back laundered money.
The 65-year-old cricketer-turned-politician chaired the primary assembly of his Cabinet on the Prime Minister's Office.
The Cabinet mentioned strategies to shape the brand new government's insurance policies, state-run Radio Pakistan reported.
Following the Cabinet assembly, Khan met with Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Zubair Mahmood Hayat on the PMO, the record stated.
Earlier, 16 ministers from Prime Minister Khan's 21-strong Cabinet were sworn-in by way of President Mamnoon Hussain, who administered the oath to them.
The new Cabinet has 16 federal ministers and 5 advisers to the prime minister, most of them previously held key posts within the regime of former dictator General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.
The ministers who took the oath include Shah Mehmood Qureshi as the Foreign Minister, Defence Minister Pervez Khattak, Finance Minister Asad Umer, Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry, Education Minister Shafqat Mehmood, Health Minister Amir Kiani, Religious Minister Nooru Haq Qadri and Railway Minister Sheikh Rashid.
Other ministers are Khusro Bakhtiar as Minister for Water Resources, Farogh Naseem Minister for Law, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication, Chaudhry Tariq Bashir Cheema Minister for States and Frontier Regions and Ghulam Sarwar Khan Minister for Petroleum.
Three women ministers together with Fehmida Mirza minister for inter-provincial coordination, Zubaida Jala defence production and Shireen Mazari human rights minister also took the oath.
Qureshi, the vp of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf birthday party, used to be the foreign minister from 2008 to 2011 below the Pakistan Peoples Party government when the 2008 Mumbai terror attack came about.
He used to be in New Delhi when 10 Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists attacked India's monetary capital.
Finance Minister Umer is the son of former Lt Gen Mohammad Umer who used to be part of the Pakistan Army all through 1971 warfare with India.
After taking the oath, Umer instructed media that government will deal with instant issues like present account deficit but also take long term measures to mend all problems.
"We will bring structural changes so that recurrent crises are avoided," he stated.
Defence Minister Khattak stated the Cabinet will paintings 12 hours on a daily basis to satisfy the schedule set out by way of Prime Minister Khan.
"We will bring peace in the country by working day and night," he stated.
Information minister Chaudhry stated that primary adjustments will be introduced in state media to make it impartial.
Those who've been appointed as advisers to the prime minister are former regulation minister within the PPP government Babar Awan (parliamentary affairs); former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa chief secretary Shehzad Arbab (established order department); former minister within the regime of Gen Musharraf Abdul Razzak Dawood (trade, textile, industry amd production and investment); Ishrat Husain (institutional reforms and austerity) and Amin Aslam (climate change).
At least 12 members of Khan's Cabinet served below General (retd) Musharraf.
Khan, the Chairman of PTI, used to be administered the oath of place of business by way of President Hussain at a easy ceremony in Islamabad on Saturday.
Khan's government is the third consecutive democratic government in Pakistan since 2008 when Gen Musharraf introduced elections after serving as president from 2001 to 2008 following a cold coup in 1999.
The PPP formed the federal government in 2008, adopted by way of the PML-N led by way of jailed former prime minister Nawaz Sharif in 2013.
Pakistan's tough army has dominated the rustic thru more than a few coups for just about half of the rustic's history since independence in 1947.
Imran Khan's 16-member Cabinet sworn-in, first meeting held
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