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Pak PM Imran Khan unveils 21-member Cabinet

<span style="color: #222222;">Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has unveiled his 21-member Cabinet, most of whom previously held key posts in the Pervez Musharraf regime. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) spokesman Fawad Chaudhry has said that out of the 21 names announced, 16 will be ministers while five others will be advisers to Khan.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to the list shared by Chaudhry on his Twitter account, veteran politician Shah Mahmood Qureshi will be the foreign minister.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Qureshi, the vice president of the party, was the foreign minister from 2008 to 2011 under the Pakistan Peoples Party government when the 2008 Mumbai terror attack took place. He was in New Delhi when 10 Pakistan-based LeT terrorists attacked India's financial capital.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Pervaiz Khattak has been appointed the defence minister while Asad Umer will be the finance minister. Khattak served as the chief minister of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province from 2013-18.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Asad Umer is the son of former Lt Gen Mohammad Umer who was part of the Pakistan Army during 1971 war with India.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The newly-announced Cabinet is expected to take oath tomorrow at the President's House.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">At least 12 members of Khan's Cabinet served under General (retd) Musharraf, The News reported.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The new Cabinet includes a former spokesperson of Musharraf, his attorney and several members of his cabinet and core team, the paper said. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The Cabinet members who served under Musharraf in various capacities include Farogh Naseem, Tariq Bashir Cheema, Ghulam Sarwar Khan, Zubaida Jalal, Fawad Chauhdry, Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Shafqat Mehmood, Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar, Abdul Razak Dawood, Dr Ishrat Hussain and Amin Aslam, the paper said.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Five of the new Cabinet members, including Khattak and Qureshi, had served as ministers in past Pakistan Peoples Party governments, it added.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Sheikh Rashid from Rawalpindi has been appointed as the railway minister. He previously held the same portfolio under the Musharraf regime.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Three women including Shireen Mazari, Zubaida Jalal and Fehmida Mriza are also part of Khan's Cabinet.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The five advisors who have the status of ministers include known faces like former banker Ishrat Hussain, businessman Abdul Razzak Dawood and Babar Awan.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">       </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">According to Pakistan's Constitution, the size of the federal cabinet should be not more than 11 per cent of the total strength of the National Assembly and Senate.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">       </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Khan, the chairman of PTI, was administered the oath of office by President Mamnoon Hussain at a simple ceremony held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr (the President House) in Islamabad yesterday.</span><br />

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