ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has appointed four Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) parliamentarians to the federal cabinet.
With the latest additions, the cabinet has reached a whopping 51 members. The new cabinet members include Muhammad Junaid Anwar, Hafiz Abdul Karim, Sheikh Fayyazuddin, and Romina Khurshid Alam.
They will join the federal cabinet as special assistants to the prime minister and will receive 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.
Anwar thanked PM Shehbaz for his confidence in appointing him as a special assistant. He pledged to fulfill his assigned duties with diligence and address public complaints from across the country.
PM Shehbaz Sharif federal cabinet includes 34 federal ministers, four state ministers and three advisers, and now eight special assistants as per the National Assembly website.
This includes14 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.
