-Photo courtesy Zahir Shah Sherazi

PESHAWAR: Ministers of Khyber Pakhtunkhawa caretaker cabinet took oath at 5 pm, Sunday, March 24, at the Governor’s House. KPK Governor Engineer Shaukatullah Khan administered oath to the new ministers.

The nine names finalised after consultation with the stake holders by the caretaker Chief Minister Justice (retd) Tariq Pervez include; former inspector General of Police Fayaz Khan Toru, former bureaucrat Abdul Rauf Khattak, Col (Retd) Samin Jan Babar a former federal secretary and a bureaucrat, Farukh Saer, Jehangir Khan a former additional secretary in KPK, Mussarat Qadeem, and Umer Farooq, besides others.

The portfolios of the ministers were likely to be announced later while some sources said that the number of ministers was also likely to be changed. There were also chances that the ministers would be taking care of multiple portfolios.

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