- Daniyal Aziz, Mir Dostain, Ayaz Sherazi and Mumtaz Tarar did not attend the oath taking ceremony
- Chaudhry Nisar is not part of the Cabinet
ISLAMABAD, August 4: President Mamnoon Hussain administered the oath of office to 27 Federal Ministers and 16 Ministers of State at an impressive and dignified ceremony held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, Islamabad on Friday. Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbassi was also present on the occasion.Those sworn in as Federal Ministers included Mohammad Ishaq Dar, Kamran Micheal, Muhammad Pervaiz Malik, Hafiz Abdul Kareem, Engineer Khurram Dastgir Khan, Syed Javed Ali Shah, Rana Tanveer Hussain, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Akram Khan Durrani, Ghulam Murtaza Khan Jatoi, Riaz Hussain Pirzada, Chaudhry Ahsan Iqbal, Lt. General (R) Salahuddin Tirmizi, Chaudhry Muhammad Barjees Tahir, Zahid Hamid, Mushahid Ullah Khan, Sardar Awais Ahmed Khan Leghari, Pir Syed Sadaruddin Shah Rashidi, Mir Hasil Khan Bizenjo, Khawaja Muhammad Saad Rafique, Sardar Muhammad Yousaf, Lt. General (Retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch, Saira Afzal Tarar, Sikandar Hayat Khan Bosan, Sheikh Aftab Ahmed, Muhammad Balighur Rehman and Maulana Ameer Zaman.
Meanwhile Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, Haji Muhammad Akram Ansari, Muhammad Junaid Anwaar Chaudhry, Chaudhry Abid Sher Ali, Mir Jam Kamal Khan, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Anusha Rahman Khan, Dr. Darshan, Muhammad Tallal Chaudhry, Barrister Mohsin Shahnawaz Ranjha, Barrister Usman Ibrahim, Abdul Rehman Khan Kanju, Chaudhry Jaffar Iqbal, Sardar Muhammad Arshad Khan Leghari, Pir Muhammad Amin Ul Hasnat Shah and Ghalib Khan took oath as Ministers of State. Meanwhile former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan is not part of the cabinet Daniyal Aziz, Mir Dostain Domki, Ayaz Sherazi and Mumtaz Ahmed Tarar did not attend the oath taking ceremony due to absence from Islamabad. Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Deputy Speaker NA Murtaza Javed Abbasi, Chairman PML-N Raja Muhammad Zafarul Haq, parliamentarians, senior politicians, diplomats and high level civil officials attended the oath-taking ceremony. The entire oath taking ceremony was administered in national language.-Sabah
