Cabinet of Pakistan
The Cabinet of Pakistan (Urdu: کابینہ پاکستان, Kābīnā-e-Pākistān) is a formal body composed of senior government officials chosen and led by the Prime Minister.[1] All cabinet members sworn in are designated Minister, and are seated at their respective ministries located in the Pakistan Secretariat.
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The Cabinet Secretary of Pakistan serves as the administrative head of the Cabinet Division and reports directly to the Prime Minister.[2] According to the Constitution of Pakistan, the Prime Minister may dismiss members of the cabinet, but must do so in writing, and new appointees must again be approved by the Parliament. The cabinet meets weekly in Islamabad. The cabinet is granted constitutional power under Article 81D of the Constitution of Pakistan.[3] The existence of the cabinet dates back to Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan, who appointed civil servants and statesmen to his first cabinet.
Constitutional powers
There shall be a Cabinet of Ministers, with the Prime Minister at its head, to aid and advise the President in the exercise of his functions. The Cabinet, together with the Ministers of State, shall be collectively responsible to the Senate and the National Assembly. A Minister who for any period of six consecutive months is not a member of the National Assembly shall, at the expiration of that period, cease to be a Minister and shall not before the dissolution of that Assembly be again appointed a Minister unless he is elected a member of that Assembly: Provided that nothing in this clause shall apply to a Minister who is a member of the Senate. Provided that the number of Federal Ministers and Ministers of State who are members of the Senate shall not at any time exceed one-fourth of the number of Federal Ministers
— Article 81C-96D: The Federation of Pakistan; Part-III, Chapter 3: Federal Government, The Constitution of Pakistan[4]
Current Cabinet
Cabinet Ministers
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| No. | Office | Incumbent | Term | |
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| 1 | Adviser on Climate Change |
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Malik Amin Aslam |
August 20, 2018 |
| 2 | Adviser on Commerce & Textile Industry, Industries & Production, and Investment |
Abdul Razak Dawood |
20 August 2018 | |
| 3 | Adviser on Establishment |
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Shehzad Arbab[10] |
August 20, 2018 |
| 4 | Adviser on Institutional Reforms & Austerity |
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Ishrat Hussain |
27 August 2018 |
| 5 | Adviser on Finance and Revenue |
Abdul Hafeez Shaikh |
18 April 2019 |
| No. | Office | Incumbent |
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| 1 | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection & Poverty Alleviation |
Sania Nishtar |
| 2 | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Interior, Chief of the Asset Recovery Unit |
Mirza Shahzad Akbar |
| 3 | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Media |
Iftikhar Durrani |
| 5 | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis & Human Resource Development, Chairman National Tourism Coordination Board, Chairman PTDC |
Sayed Zulfiqar Abbas Bukhari |
| 6 | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Coordination of Marketing & Development of Mineral Resources |
Shahzad Syed Qasim |
| 7 | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Capital Development Authority Affairs |
Ali Nawaz Awan |
| 8 | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Youth Affairs |
Muhammad Usman Dar |
| 9 | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Media Affairs |
Yousaf Baig Mirza |
| 10 | Spokesperson to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Coordination |
Nadeem Afzal Gondal |
| 11 | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on activities pertaining to Ministries of Water Resources, Power and Petroleum in Balochistan |
Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind |
| 12 | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination |
Dr. Zafar Mirza |
| 13 | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information & Broadcasting Division[11][12] |
Lt Gen (r) Asim Saleem Bajwa |
| 14 | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Petroleum Division |
Nadeem Babar |
[13] References
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 February 2018. Retrieved 1 February 2018.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Home Page". cabinet.gov.pk.
- https://web.archive.org/web/20091110133919/http://www.pakistani.org/pakistan/constitution/part3.ch3.notes.html#81D Article 81D
- "Chapter 3: Chapter:3 The Federal Government". Retrieved 3 January 2013.
- Pakistan. "PM Imran Khan approves 20-member federal cabinet | Pakistan". bthenews.com.pk. p. k. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- "Expected federal ministers in new government of PTI - Pakistan - Dunya News". Dunyanews.tv. 16 August 2018. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- Abb Takk News. "Maritime Minister Ali Zaidi Visits Navel Headquarter | Abb Takk News". Abbtakk.tv. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
- "National Assembly of Pakistan". www.na.gov.pk. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
- Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
- Abbas Shabbir (20 June 2014). "PM finalises names for 20-member federal cabinet". Samaa.tv. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- International The news
- tribune Media/
- "Hammad Azhar relieved of Revenue Division portfolio in a day, given economic affairs charge". 10 July 2019.
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