Interim federal cabinet will assume power Tuesday after being sworn in by President Zardari. PHOTO: APP/FILE
The cabinet was selected by caretaker prime minister Justice (retd) Mir Hazar Khan Khoso and consists of people whom the caretaker personally knows or has worked with in the past.
President Asif Ali Zardari will travel to Islamabad tomorrow to administer their oaths to be sworn into office.
The interim cabinet includes:
1. Arif Nizami
2. Shahzada Jamal
3. Shahzada Ahsan Ashraf Shaikh
4. Abdul Malik Kasi
5. Dr Sania Nishtar
6. Feroze Jamal Shah Kakakhel
7. Malik Habib
8. Ahmer Bilal Soofi
9. Dr Musaddaq Malik
10. Maqbool H H Rahmatoolah
11. Asadullah Mandokhel
12. Dr Younis Soomro
13. Dr Mushtaq Khan
14. Sohail Wajahat H Siddique
15. Mir Hassan Dhomki
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Wow..Sohail Wajahat. Brought back memories. I knew him when he was Field Service Engineer in Siemens. He ended up being the first Pakistani MD of Siemens. People had different opinions about. Not the sharpest or super intelligent type, but certainly knew how to climb the corporate ladder..using any means available.
Hopefully, he will get the power ministry. Definitely knows more about generation and distribution than our ex Raja Rental.
Hmm.. Previous governement was overly critisized from time to time for having a large cabinet but this is also not a small one by any means. Even being a caretaker cabinet the number looks far more greater. Having such a large cabinet increases my fear of what many other people also say that eletions may be delayed and this caretaker setup would be in power till the negotiations with IMF and departuture of US from Afghanistan. I hope this is not true and does not become true as we badly need this democratic transition to occur smoothly and on time. For a better Pakistan!!
Ziauddin Saheb was so right about this new brand of journalists, who have used this profession to assume role of lobbyists for business houses, facilitating them in return for adequate compensation. Now they even join the cabinet, although everybody knows that they are not neutral.
These are the people I was able to find out about...pretty good selection by Mr. Khoso by the looks of it:
Arif Nizami - Former Editor The Nation, Founder and Editor of Pakistan Today. Sohail Wajahat H Siddique - CEO Siemens Pakistan Dr Younis Soomro - Sindhi nationalist, Orthopedic Surgeon. Dr Mushtaq Khan - Vice President Citibank Pakistan, Former Chief Economic Adviser SBP. Ahmer Bilal Soofi - Advocate Supreme Court of Pakistan. Shahzada Jamal Nazir - Lawyer, son of Pir of Mohra Sharif, acted as adviser for National Regulations and Services in previous govt. Dr. Abdul Malik Kasi - Ex-Federal Health Minister. Dr Sania Nishtar - Pakistan's first female cardiologist, founder of Heartfile - a Pakistani health policy watchdog. Feroz Jamal Shah Kakakhel - A barrister of law.
It would be nice to know what qualifications and experience they possess to warrant their appointments.
Who has verified whether these people qualify under articles 62 & 63 of theConstitution? The same level of scrutiny should be performed for the caretakers as is being performed on the electoral candidates by the ECP. They aren't above the law
Dear ET, it would be nice if you could publish a short profile of all these people. Names mean nothing to us .... We need to know the people.