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.
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
 Term
No. Office Incumbent Party
Began

18 August
1 Prime Minister PTI
2018
All important policy issues and all other
portfolios not allocated to any Minister.
Imran Khan

2 Ghulam PTI April 2019

Federal Minister for Aviation
Sarwar Khan

17
3 Federal Minister for Communication and PTI December
Murad Saeed
Postal Services 2018

20 August
4 Pervez PTI
2018
Khattak [5]
Federal Minister for Defence

20 August
5 BAP
Federal Minister for Defence Production 2018

Zubaida Jalal
Khan

Muhammad 10 July
6 PTI
Federal Minister for Economic Affairs Hammad 2019
Azhar
7 PTI 20 August
Federal Minister for Education & Professional Shafqat 2018
Training and National History & Literary Mahmood [5]
Heritage

20 August
8 PTI
2018
Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Shah
Mehmood
Qureshi [6]

6
9 Tariq Bashir PML Q September
Cheema 2018
Federal Minister for Housing and Works

20 August
10 Shireen PTI
Federal Minister for Human Rights 2018
Mazari

Khalid 20 August
11 Federal Minister for Information Technology MQMP
Maqbool 2018
and Telecommunication
Siddiqui

18 April
12 Ijaz Ahmed PTI
Federal Minister for Interior 2019
Shah

13 GDA 20 August
Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial 2018
Coordination
 Fahmida
Mirza

5 October
14 Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Ali Amin PTI
2018
Gilgit-Baltistan Gandapur

20 August
15 Farogh MQMP
Federal Minister for Law & Justice 2018
Naseem

11
16 Ali Haider PTI September
Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs
Zaidi [7] 2018

Khusro 5 October
17 Federal Minister for National Food Security PTI
Bakhtiar 2018
and Research

18 April
18 PTI
Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs 2019

Azam Khan
Swati

[8]
20 August
19 Federal Minister for Planning, Development Asad Umar PTI
2018
and Reform

11
20 Omar Ayub PTI September
Federal Minister for Power and Petroleum
Khan 2018

21 PTI October 5,
Federal Minister for Privatisation Muhammad 2018
 Mian Soomro

Awami Muslim
Sheikh 20 August
22 League
Federal Minister for Railways Rasheed 2018
(Pakistan)
Ahmad

20 August
23 Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Noor-ul-Haq PTI
2018
Inter-faith Harmony Qadri

18 April
24 Fawad PTI
Federal Minister for Science and Technology 2019
Chaudhry

19
Sahabzada
25 Federal Minister for States and Frontier PTI November
Mehboob
Regions 2019
Sultan

5 October
26 Muhammad PTI
Federal Minister for Water Resources 2018
Faisal Vawda

5 October
27 PTI
Minister of State for Climate Change Zartaj Gul 2018

4 October
28 Shabbir Ali PTI
Minister of State for Housing and Works 2018
Qureshi

18 April
29 Minister of State for States and Frontier Shehryar PTI
2019
Regions and Narcotics Control Khan Afridi

17
Ali
30 PTI September
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Muhammad
2018
Khan
 31 Minister of Planning and Special Initiatives PTI 19
November
2019

Asad Umar

Advisers to the Prime Minister

No. Office Incumbent Term

August
1 Malik Amin
Adviser on Climate Change 20, 2018
Aslam

20 August
2 Adviser on Commerce & Textile Industry, Industries Abdul Razak
2018
& Production, and Investment Dawood

August
3 Adviser on Establishment Shehzad
20, 2018
Arbab [9]

27 August
4 Ishrat
Adviser on Institutional Reforms & Austerity 2018
Hussain

18 April
5 Abdul Hafeez
Adviser on Finance and Revenue 2019
Shaikh
Special Assistants to the Prime Minister
No. Office Incumbent

1 Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection & Poverty

Sania Nishtar
Alleviation

2 Mirza Shahzad
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability
Akbar

3
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Media Iftikhar Durrani

4 Naeemul
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Political Affairs
Haque

5 Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis & Human Sayed Zulfiqar
Resource Development, Chairman NTCB, Chairman PTDC Abbas Bukhari

6 Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Coordination of Marketing & Shahzad Syed
Development of Mineral Resources Qasim

7 Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Capital Development Authority Ali Nawaz
Affairs Awan

8 Muhammad
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Youth Affairs
Usman Dar

9 Yousaf Baig
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Media Affairs
Mirza

10
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Coordination Nadeem Afzal
 Gondal

Sardar Yar
11 Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on activities pertaining to
Muhammad
Ministries of Water Resources, Power and Petroleum in Balochistan
Rind

12 Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services,

Dr. Zafar Mirza
Regulations, and Coordination

13 Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information & Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq
Division Awan

14
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Petroleum Division Nadeem Babar

15 Shamshad
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Public Private Partnership
Akhtar

[10]References

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2. "Home Page" . cabinet.gov.pk.
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kistan/constitution/part3.ch3.notes.ht
ml#81D Article 81D
4. "Chapter 3: Chapter:3 The Federal
Government" . Retrieved 3 January
2013.
5. Pakistan. "PM Imran Khan approves
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 Pakistan - Dunya News" .
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7. Abb Takk News. "Maritime Minister Ali
Zaidi Visits Navel Headquarter | Abb
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9. Abbas Shabbir (20 June 2014). "PM
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 10. "Hammad Azhar relieved of Revenue
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