Farogh Naseem takes oath as federal minister again

President Arif Alvi administers the oath to Farogh during a ceremony at the President House

ISLAMABAD: MQM-Pakistan lawmaker Farogh Naseem was sworn in again as the law minister on Friday during a ceremony at the President House.

President Dr Arif Alvi administered the oath.

Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday had decided to reappoint Naseem as his government’s law minister, two days after he resigned from his post to represent army chief General Qamar Bajwa before the Supreme Court in a case regarding an extension in his tenure.



The Supreme Court on Thursday approved a conditional extension in army chief’s tenure for an additional six months.

A three-judge bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa in a short order said it was granting the COAS a conditional extension of six months, giving parliament time to clarify the constitutional guidelines under which an army chief’s tenure could be prolonged.

Earlier the same day, the MQM-P barrister refuted ‘rumours’ that PM Imran had reprimanded the government’s legal team for mishandling the matter of army chief’s extension.

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“I want to clarify that no one asked me to resign… neither Prime Minister Imran Khan nor General Bajwa…I resigned, for my country voluntarily,” he had claimed.

PM Imran in the past had hailed the senior lawyer as one of his ‘favourite’ ministers in the federal cabinet.