Pakistan

PM grants 2 days to submit cabinet nominations

The new cabinet is likely to consist of 20 ministers.

Express February 07, 2011

ISLAMABAD: Allied parties of the government asked Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Monday to grant them two more days for nominating their members for the new cabinet.

The Prime Minister is not only in touch with allied parties over formation of a new cabinet but he is also in close consultation with Nawaz Sharif and Chaudhary Shujaat Hussain of the opposition leadership, said sources.

The new cabinet is likely to consist of 20 ministers.

Sources also said that Gilani is likely to announce the new cabinet on Wednesday this week and has scheduled the first meeting for the new cabinet on the same day.

Earlier last week, the top decision-making body of the ruling Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) decided to dissolve the cabinet, a concession to the opposition unlikely to help win its support for wholesale economic reform as demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

COMMENTS (2)

Syed A. Mateen | 13 years ago | Reply National Government is in the making with the help of opposition parties. The Head of the Government will remain PPP leader. There will be no more opposition in the country. Members of National Assembly belonging to government as well from the opposition will be on treasury benches enjoying the pay and perks, minus the people of Pakistan, who one way or the other, have to pay taxes according to the wishes and desire of World Bank and the IMF.

AJ | 13 years ago | Reply Seeing is believing!

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