Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Wednesday appointed four Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) parliamentarians to the federal cabinet.
The number of cabinet members now increases to 51 while previous Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) cabinet consisted of ‘half-century’ of members.
The new cabinet members include Muhammad Junaid Anwar, Hafiz Abdul Karim, Sheikh Fayyaz-ud-Din and Romina Khurshid Alam. They will join the federal cabinet as special assistants to the prime minister.
These members will enjoy privileges and powers equivalent to Ministers of State. Anwar will head the Prime Minister’s Complaint Cell while Sheikh Fayyaz-ud-Din has been appointed as the coordinator for South Punjab.
PM Shehbaz’s 51-member federal cabinet includes 34 federal ministers, four state ministers and three advisers, and now eight special assistants.
Of these, 14 ministers are from the PML-N, nine from the coalition partner Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), four from the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazl (JUI-F), two from the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P), and one each from the JWP and BAP.
Earlier, Syed Tariq Fatemi, Mohammad Sadiq, Syed Fahad Hussain and Shaza Fatima were appointed as PM’s special assistants.
