Islamabad: Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf took oath as the country`s 25th Prime Minister on Tuesday.
President Asif Ali Zardari administered oath to the newly elected prime minister at Aiwan-e-Sadr at an impressive ceremony attended by ex-prime minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and high-ranking military and civil personalities.
On the occasion Chief Ministers of Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhua, Chairman and Deputy Chaiman of the Senate, Speaker National Assembly Fehmida Mirza, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain and Rehman Malik were also present at the ceremony.
The 38 members of Federal cabinet, including 27 ministers and 11 ministers of state, also took oath of their post at the occasion.
The ministers who took oath include Rana Farooq Saeed‚ Sardar Al-Haj Muhammad Umar Gorgage‚ Firdous Ashiq Awan‚ Hina Rabbani Khar‚ Samina Khalid Ghurki‚ Makhdoom Shahabuddin‚ Syed Naveed Qamar‚ Farzana Raja‚ Engineer Shaukatullah‚ Syed Khursheed Shah‚ Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani‚ Babar Khan Ghauri‚ Israrullah Zehri‚ Arbab Alamgir‚ Ghulam Ahmad Bilour‚ Qamar Zaman Kaira‚ Farooq H. Naek‚ Ch. Pervaiz Elahi‚ Makhdoom Amin Faheem‚ Abdul Hafeez Shaikh‚ Ch. Ahmad Mukhtar‚ Mian Manzoor Watto‚ Nazar Muhammad Gondal‚ Dr. Farooq Sattar‚ Haji Khuda Bakhsh Rajar‚ Maula Bakhsh Chandio and Changez Jamali.
The ministers of state who took oath are Tasneem Ahmad Qureshi‚ Chaudhary Imtiaz Safdar Warraich‚ Abbas Khan Afridi‚ Dost Muhammad Mazari‚ Saleem Haider Khan‚ Nawabzada Malik Ammad Khan‚ Moazzam Ali Jatoi‚ Malik Azmat Khan‚ Syed Samsam Ali Bukhari‚ Dr. Nadeem Ahsan and Raheela Baloch.
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