An 18-member cabinet of Punjab Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz took the oath of their offices at the Governor House on Wednesday.
The swearing-in ceremony for the Punjab cabinet took place in Lahore.
Punjab Governor Muhammad Baligh Ur Rehman administered the oath to the newly appointed Punjab ministers, marking the formal beginning of their duties in the provincial government.
Who’s who in Punjab cabinet?
The ministers include who took the oath include Marriyum Aurangzeb, Syed Muhammad Ashiq Hussain Shah, Muhammad Kazim Pirzada, Rana Sikandar Hayat, Khawaja Imran Nazeer, Khawaja Salman Rafique, Zeeshan Rafique, Bilal Akbar Khan, Sohaib Ahmed Malik, Azma Zahid Bukhari, Bilal Yasin, Ramesh Sindh Arora, Khalil Tahir, Faisal Ayub, Shafay Hussain, Sher Ali Gorchani, Sohail Shoukat Butt and Mujtaba Shujaur Rehman.
Among those present at the ceremony was Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz.
Maryam Nawaz – the first-ever woman CM of Punjab
For the first time in Pakistan’s political scene, the province of Punjab welcomed its first woman Chief Minister, Maryam Nawaz, leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N). The daughter of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, took the office of Punjab Chief Minister in the end of February.
Securing her victory by defeating the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-backed candidate from Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), Rana Aftab Ahmad Khan — who failed to collect a single vote — Maryam beat her political opponent by 220 votes.
