The government on Friday included five new federal ministers and 10 ministers of state in the federal cabinet.
With the induction of new ministers the Federal cabinet comprises of 34 federal ministers, 14 state ministers and six special advisors, whereas few new faces would be added to the Federal Cabinet soon.
Reliable sources disclosed that Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Firdous Aashiq Awan was being replaced by the former Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture Nazar Mohammad Gondal.
The sources said that even the newly selected ministers were not aware of the fact till the eleventh hour that they were being chosen for the federal cabinet, and were informed suddenly.
All the 11 newly inducted federal ministers and ministers of state in the Cabinet belonged to the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and coalition partners including Awami National Party (ANP) and Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) were given no share.
President Asif Ali Zardari administered oath to the newly inducted cabinet members here at a ceremony.
The new ministers would be allotted portfolios later on.
Qamar Zaman Kaira, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Farzana Raja, Rana Farooq Saeed and Nazar Gondal took oath as federal ministers while Raheela Baloch, Abbas Khan Afridi, Mozzam Ali Jatoi, Malik Ammad Khan, Tasnim Ahmad Qureshi, Syed Samsam Ali Bokhari & Malik Azmat Khan took oath as ministers of state.
Earlier, the federal cabinet comprised 29 federal ministers including Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi. Makhdoom Amin Faheem, Arbab Almagir, Ahmad Mukhtar, Hina Rabbani Khar, Faisal Saleh Hayat, Wajahat Hussain, Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Hazar Khan Bajarani, Firdous Ashiq Awan, A Rehman Malik, Mian Manzoor Wattoo, Farooq Naek, Khuda Bux Rajar, Israrullah Zehri, Samina Khalid Ghurki, Farooq Sattar, Dr. Asim Hussain, Babar Ghauri, Muhammad Umar Gorgage, Ghous Bux Mehar, Anwar Ali Cheema, Riaz Hussain Pirzada, Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, Syed Khurshid Shah, Changez Khan Jamali, Shaukat Ullah, Makhdoom Shahabuddin and Syed Naveed Qamar.
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