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

No.	Ministry		Incumbent	Party		Term Began
1	Prime Minister All important policy issues and all other portfolios not allocated to any Minister.		Imran Khan		PTI	18 August 2018
2	Federal Minister for Aviation		Ghulam Sarwar Khan		PTI	April 2019
3	Federal Minister for Communication and Postal Services		Murad Saeed		PTI	17 December 2018
4	Federal Minister for Defence		Pervez Khattak[5]		PTI	20 August 2018
5	Federal Minister for Defence Production		Zubaida Jalal Khan		BAP	20 August 2018
6	Federal Minister for Economic Affairs		Khusro Bakhtiar		PTI	10 July 2019
7	Federal Minister for Education & Professional Training and National History & Literary Heritage		Shafqat Mahmood[5]		PTI	20 August 2018
8	Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs		Shah Mehmood Qureshi[6]		PTI	20 August 2018
9	Federal Minister for Housing and Works		Tariq Bashir Cheema		PML Q	6 September 2018
10	Federal Minister for Human Rights		Shireen Mazari		PTI	20 August 2019
11	Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication		Syed Amin Ul Haque		MQMP	6 April 2020
12	Federal Minister for Interior		Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed		AMLP	11 December 2020
13	Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination		Fahmida Mirza		GDA	20 August 2018
14	Federal Minister for Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan		Ali Amin Gandapur		PTI	5 October 2018
15	Federal Minister for Law & Justice		Farogh Naseem		MQMP	20 August 2018
16	Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs		Ali Haider Zaidi[7]		PTI	11 September 2018
17	Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research		Syed Fakhar Imam		PTI	5 October 2018
18	Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs		Babar Awan		PTI	17 September 2018
19	[8] Federal Minister for Planning, Development, Reforms and Special Initiatives		Asad Umar		PTI	19 November 2019
20	Federal Minister for Power and Petroleum		Omar Ayub Khan		PTI	11 September 2018
21	Federal Minister for Privatisation		Muhammad Mian Soomro		PTI	October 5, 2018
22	Federal Minister for Railways		Azam Khan Swati		PTI	11 December 2020
23	Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Inter-faith Harmony		Noor-ul-Haq Qadri		PTI	20 August 2018
24	Federal Minister for Science and Technology		Fawad Chaudhry		PTI	18 April 2019
25	Federal Minister for States and Frontier Regions		Sahabzada Mehboob Sultan		PTI	19 November 2019
26	Federal Minister for Water Resources		Muhammad Faisal Vawda		PTI	5 October 2018
27	Minister of State for Climate Change		Zartaj Gul		PTI	5 October 2018
28	Minister of State for Housing and Works		Shabbir Ali Qureshi		PTI	4 October 2018
29	Minister of State for States and Frontier Regions and Narcotics Control		Shehryar Khan Afridi		PTI	18 April 2019
30	Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs		Ali Muhammad Khan		PTI	17 September 2018
31	Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting		Shibli Faraz		PTI[9]	28 April 2020
32	Federal Minister for Finance and Revenue		Abdul Hafeez Shaikh		Independent	11 December 2020[10]

Advisers to the Prime Minister

No.	Office		Incumbent	Term
1	Adviser on Climate Change		Malik Amin Aslam	August 20, 2018
2	Adviser on Commerce & Textile Industry, Industries & Production, and Investment		Abdul Razak Dawood	20 August 2018
3	Adviser on Establishment		Shehzad Arbab[11]	August 20, 2018
4	Adviser on Institutional Reforms & Austerity		Ishrat Hussain	27 August 2018

Special Assistants to the Prime Minister

No.	Office	Incumbent
1	Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Social Protection & Poverty Alleviation	Sania Nishtar
2	Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Accountability, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Interior, Chief of the Asset Recovery Unit	Mirza Shahzad Akbar
3	Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Media	Iftikhar Durrani
5	Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Overseas Pakistanis & Human Resource Development, Chairman National Tourism Coordination Board, Chairman PTDC	Sayed Zulfiqar Abbas Bukhari
6	Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Coordination of Marketing & Development of Mineral Resources	Shahzad Syed Qasim
7	Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Capital Development Authority Affairs	Ali Nawaz Awan
8	Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Youth Affairs	Muhammad Usman Dar
9	Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Media Affairs	Yousaf Baig Mirza
10	Spokesperson to the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Coordination	Nadeem Afzal Gondal
11	Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on activities pertaining to Ministries of Water Resources, Power and Petroleum in Balochistan	Sardar Yar Muhammad Rind
12	Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services, Regulations, and Coordination	Dr. Faisal Sultan
13	Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Information & Broadcasting Division[12][13]	Lt Gen (r) Asim Saleem Bajwa
14	Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Petroleum Division	Nadeem Babar

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