Imran Khan ministry

The Imran Khan ministry is the current government of Pakistan

which was formed by Imran Khan following his successful election
as Prime Minister of Pakistan by the National Assembly. The
Cabinet has 25 Federal Ministers, 5 Ministers of state and 5
Advisors most of whom assumed office on 20 August
2018.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] The cabinet saw a reshuffle on 18 April
2019.[10]
 Imran Khan ministry

cabinet of Pakistan

2018-present

Date formed 20 August 2018

People and organisations

Head of state Mamnoon Hussain (August 2018 -

September 2018)
Arif Alvi (September 2018 - present)

Head of government Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi

Member party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf

Coalition partners:
MQM-P
BAP
GDA
AML
PML (Q)
Confidence and supply:
BNP-M
 JWP
Independent

Status in legislature Majority coalition

Opposition party Pakistan Muslim League (N)

Opposition leader Shehbaz Sharif

History

Election(s) 2018

Legislature term(s) 15th Parliament of Pakistan

Predecessor Mulk caretaker ministry

Cabinet
 Federal ministers

Name Party Portfolio Assumed Office

Imran Khan PTI Prime Minister 18 August 2018

Shah Mehmood Qureshi PTI Minister for Foreign Affairs 20 August 2018

Pervez Khattak PTI Minister for Defence 20 August 2018

Minister for Interior 18 April 2019

Ijaz Shah PTI
Minister for Parliamentary Affairs 2 April 2019 - 18 April 2019

Khusro Bakhtiar PTI Minister for Planning, Development and Reforms[11] 20 August 2018

Hammad Azhar PTI Minister of Economic Affairs 10 July 2019

Omar Ayub Khan PTI Minister for Energy 11 September 2018

Ghulam Sarwar Khan PTI Aviation Division (Pakistan) 19 April 2019 - present

Ali Haider Zaidi PTI Minister for Maritime Affairs 11 September 2018

Minister for Communications

Murad Saeed PTI 17 December 2018
Minister for Postal Services

Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad AML Minister for Railways 20 August 2018

Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training

Shafqat Mehmood PTI Minister for National History, and Literary Heritage 20 August 2018
Division

Minister for Science and Technology 18 April 2019

Fawad Chaudhry PTI
Minister for Information and Broadcasting 20 August 2018 - 18 April 2019

Farogh Naseem MQM(P) Minister for Law and Justice 20 August 2018

Minister for Information Technology and

Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui MQM(P) 20 August 2018
Telecommunication

Tariq Bashir Cheema PML(Q) Minister for Housing and Works 20 August 2018

Zubaida Jalal BAP Minister for Defence Production 20 August 2018

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

Shireen Mazari PTI Minister for Human Rights 20 August 2018

Ali Ameen Gandapur PTI Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit Baltistan 5 October 2018

Fehmida Mirza GDA Minister for Inter-provincial Coordination 20 August 2018

Ali Muhammad Khan Mahar PTI Narcotics Control 11 September 2018 - 21 May 2019

Faisal Vawda PTI Minister for Water Resources 5 October 2018

Minister for Parliamentary Affairs 18 April 2019

Azam Swati PTI 5 October 2018 - 5 December
Minister for Science and Technology
2018

Muhammad Mian Soomro PTI Minister for Privatisation 5 October 2018

Mohammad Mehboob
PTI Minister of National Food Security and Research 5 October 2018
Sultan

Ministers of State
Shehryar Khan Afridi PTI Narcotics Control 11 June 2019

States and Frontier Regions 18 April 2019

Interior 31 August 2018 - 18 April 2019

Hammad Azhar PTI Revenue 11 September 2018 - 9 July 2019

Muhammad Shabir Ali PTI Housing and Works 11 September 2018

Ali Muhammad Khan PTI Parliamentary Affairs 17 September 2018

Zartaj Gul Wazir PTI Climate Change 5 October 2018

Advisers to the Prime Minister

Abdul Hafeez Shaikh Technocrat Finance, Revenue and Economic Affairs 18 April 2019

Pakistan Tehreek-e-
Usman Dar Youth Affairs 3 Dec 2018
Insaf

Dr. Ishrat Hussain Technocrat Institutional Reforms and Austerity 20 August 2018

Malik Amin Aslam PTI, Technocrat Climate Change 20 August 2018

Abdul Razak Dawood Technocrat Commerce, Textile, Industry & Production, and Investment 20 August 2018

Shehzad Arbab PTI, Technocrat Establishment Division 20 August 2018

Special Assistants
Special Assistants to the Prime Minister[12][13]

Naeemul Haque PTI Political Affairs 20 August 2018

Iftikhar Durrani PTI Media 20 August 2018

Mirza Shehzad Akbar Technocrat Accountability 20 August 2018

Sayed Zulfiqar Bukhari PTI Overseas Pakistanis 18 September 2018

Shahzad Qasim Technocrat Power Sector 26 October 2018

Ali Nawaz Awan PTI Capital Development Authority Affairs 7 November 2018

Nadeem Afzal Chan PTI Political Affairs 7 November 2018

Yousaf Baig Mirza Media Affiars 7 December 2018

Firdous Ashiq Awan PTI Information & Broadcasting 18 April 2019

Nadeem Babar PTI Petroleum 18 April 2019

Zafarullah Mirza National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination 18 April 2019

Ministries with No Federal Ministers or Ministers of State

Such ministries are held by the Prime Minister and on his policies
they are run by members of the Civil Service, known as Federal
Secretaries.

Federal Secretaries
Department Name

National Security Division Iftikhar Babar

Aviation Division Muhammad Saqib Aziz

Cabinet Division Fazal Abbas Maken

CDA Division Aurangzeb Haque

Statistics Muhammad Ayub Sheikh

Cabinet composition of Khan ministry

Party Number
PTI 24
MQM(P) 2
BAP 1
PML(Q) 1
Adviser 7
Special
11
Assistants

Analysis
Khan announced his cabinet soon after taking oath, he kept
ministry of interior to himself. His choice for ministries was
criticized as he came into power on the slogan of Change and New
Pakistan but most of his appointees were previously ministers
during the era of Pervez Musharraf and some served in PPP
government which followed Musharraf era.[14][15][16][17][18][19] He was
criticized by supporters and critics for settling for "Diet Reform" as
Musharraf pursued rather than the real change that was embodied
by the PTI.[20] Some supporters defended Khan since the PTI was in
a coalition government and needed "electables" to win the election.

Khusro Bakhtiar served as a minister during Musharraf's regime, as

well as an MNA in the PML-N coalition government[21] Shafqat
Mehmood was a member of the PPP from 1990 until he joined
Musharraf regime soon after 1999 coup and became provincial
minister.[22] Farogh Naseem has been part of Musharraf's legal
team representing him against treason charges which aroused
speculation on PTI's stance on if Pervez Musharraf will be tried for
treason.[23] Tariq Bashir Cheema has been minister in a past PPP
government.[24] Fehmida Mirza has been Speaker of the National
Assembly of Pakistan in a PPP government.[25] Sheikh Rasheed
Ahmad served as a minister during the Musharraf era as well as a
former MNA of the PML-N.[26] Ghulam Sarwar Khan also served as
a minister during Musharraf regime.[27] Zubaida Jalal Khan was a
minister and held the same portfolio during Musharraf era.[28]
Fawad Chaudhry was media coordinator in the political party
formed by Musharraf as well a special Assistant to Prime Minister
Yousuf Raza Gilani.[29] Shah Mehmood Qureshi held the same
portfolio in a PPP government.[30] Babar Awan also served in a past
PPP government.[31] Malik Amin Aslam held same portfolio under
Musharraf government but is more of a technocrat than a
politician.[32] Abdul Razak Dawood was commerce minister for
Musharraf as well.[33] Omar Ayub Khan was the minister of state for
finance in Shaukat Aziz's cabinet during the Pervez Musharraf
regime.[34] Ali Muhammad Mahar was the former Chief Minister of
Sindh during the Musharraf regime.[35] Firdous Ashiq Awan, also
served as Federal Minister of information in PPP Government

On 2 November 2018, the Government of Pakistan under the

administration of Imran Khan and the Tehreek-e-Labbaik political
party, the latter of which encouraged protests against Asia Bibi,
came into an agreement that barred Asia Bibi from leaving the
country, in addition to releasing Tehreek-e-Labbaik protesters who
were under arrest.[36][37][38][38][39] The deal included expediting a
motion in the court to place Asia Noreen on Pakistan's no fly list,
known officially as the Exit Control List (ECL).[37] Due to pressure
from Tehreek-e-Labbaik, Pakistani authorities did not release Asia
Noreen until the Supreme Court made a review of the verdict.[40]
This agreement between the Government of Pakistan and Tehreek-
e-Labbaik has led to "allegations [that] the government was
capitulating to extremists".[41] Pakistani Information Minister Fawad
Chaudhry responded to these allegations, saying that "We had two
options: either to use force, and when you use force people can be
killed. That is not something a state should do... We tried
negotiations and (in) negotiations you take something and you
leave something."[41] Asia Noreen's lawyer Saif-ul-Mulook called the
agreement between the Government of Pakistan and the Islamists
"painful", stating that "They cannot even implement an order of the
country's highest court".[42] Feeling that his life was threatened,
Mulook fled to Europe in order "to stay alive as I still have to fight
the legal battle for Asia Bibi."[42] British Pakistani Christian
Association chairman Wilson Chowdhry stated that “I am not
surprised that Imran Khan's regime has caved in to extremists”.[43]
Jemima Goldsmith, an ex-wife of Imran Khan, similarly "said that
Pakistan's government caved in to extremist demands to bar Asia
Bibi from leaving the country", opining "Not the Naya Pakistan we'd
hoped for. 3 days after a defiant & brave speech defending the
judiciary, Pakistan's gov caves in to extremist demands to bar
#AsiaBibi from leaving Pak, after she was acquitted of blasphemy-
effectively signing her death warrant."[44]

See also
Prime Ministership of Imran Khan

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