ISLAMABAD, Aug 27: Former federal minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said on Friday that the new cabinet of prime minister-elect Shaukat Aziz would be inducted by Wednesday (Sept 1).

He was talking to newsmen at the Parliament House after the election of Shaukat Aziz as the Leader of the House in the National Assembly. He said the newly elected Leader of the House had granted remission of three months to prisoners, while he had also approved a one-month salary for the staff of the National Assembly Secretariat.

He said Mr Aziz would take the oath of the Prime Minister of Pakistan on Saturday at 11am here at the Aiwan-i-Sadr. Commenting on the opposition's boycott from the special proceedings of the National Assembly during as certainment of the Leader of the House, he said the opposition knew that they did not enjoy the support of majority thus they opted for the boycott. -APP