Sindh cabinet inducts six new members

CM appoints four new ministers, two more advisers

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah expanded his cabinet on Sunday by inducting four new ministers and two advisers, raising the number of ministers to 18.

Provincial Governor Imran Ismail administered the oath to the newly-appointed provincial ministers, Syed Nasir Hussain Shah, Abdul Bari Pitafi, Ikram Dharejo and Sohail Anwar Siyal in a ceremony held at the Darbar Hall of Governor House.

After the oath-taking ceremony, Chief Secretary Mumtaz Ali Shah announced that the CM has also approved the appointment of two advisers, Nisar Ahmed Khuhro and Syed Aijaz Shah Shirazi, bringing the number of his advisers to four with existing advisers, Barrister Murtaza Wahab for information, law and anti-corruption, and Mumtaz Ali Jakhrani with the portfolio of the prison department.

Former Livestock and Fisheries minister Pitafi and former Works and Services minister Nasir Shah had handed in their resignations prior to the Ghotki by-election when the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) nominated them to lead the campaign for the PPP candidate in the by-polls. They have now been inducted to the cabinet again with their new portfolios yet to be announced.

Whereas new adviser Khuhro, the president of PPP's Sindh chapter, had been disqualified from the general elections in 2018 as an election tribunal rejected his nomination form for PS-11 Larkana.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 5^th, 2019.