New cabinet takes oath: Khawaja Asif foreign minister, Ahsan Iqbal interior minister

Members of the new cabinet took oath at a ceremony organised at the Presidency in Islamabad on Friday morning. President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath to 44 members of Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s cabinet comprising mostly old faces but with some reshuffled portfolios. The cabinet comprises 28 federal ministers and 18 state ministers. The names of the cabinet members and their portfolios were finalised by PM Abbasi after six-hour-long consultations with his predecessor Nawaz Sharif and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in Murree on Thursday. Khawaja Muhammad Asif, earlier the defence…

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