Re: President Musharraf adminsters Oath to Prime Minister Gillani
After the PM, more lining up to take the oath from President Musharraf.
**20 federal ministers to take oath on Saturday: PML Nawaz leader Nisar **
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Reza bhai welcome back from your long business trip…hope to see you posting regularly now…but I am afraid Musharraf will not be here too long…hope you will keep finding positive news about the new government as well…God bless you!!!
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He looks awfully like saddam
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He looks awfully like saddam
and i agree.
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Mush or Gilani?:D
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But he added immediately that Presidency is part of Parliament, and that means Presidency would be surpeme. Let wait and see :halo:
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Scary isn’t it.
President Musharraf administers oath to Prime Minister/24-member cabinet (merged)
In the end all the cabinet ministers swallowed their pride (and so-called principles) took the oath of office from President Musharraf. This is especially the case with the PML Nawaz members. 
The cabinet size is expected to go upto 70 members - largest in history, to accomodate the various coaltion partners, so dozens more ministers will be lining upto to take the oath from President Musharraf.
Some good choices for the top ministerial positions, especially the foreign minister Shah Mehmood Quershi. :k:
24-strong cabinet takes oath
Updated at: 1400 PST, Monday, March 31, 2008
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ISLAMABAD: The first batch of the 24-member cabinet of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani was sworn in by President Pervez Musharraf today (Monday). On this occasion, the members sported black bands round their arms. This is the first time in the national history that cabinet members were sworn in with black bands showing protests against the man who is administering oath to them. With the formation of the government after the oath, the countdown for the implementation of the Murree Declaration would begin. The declaration promises reinstatement of the deposed judges within 30 days after the formation of the government. President Pervez Musharraf in the past inducted into office cabinets of four former prime ministers – Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Shaukat Aziz, and caretaker Prime Minister Muhammadmian Soomro. The oath of office to the cabinet of Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani would be the fifth in a row. The majority of the cabinet members had been raising the slogan of ‘Go Musharraf Go’ in the previous National Assembly as well as in the Senate.
**After the induction of initial 24 members, the cabinet would be expanded in two stages. It is apprehended that the number of ministers might swell to 70. Prime Minister Gilani was without a cabinet since he was sworn in last Tuesday. **The first stage cabinet will have 14 ministers from Punjab, four from Sindh and NWFP province each, two from Balochistan and one minister has been taken from FATA. According to the formula adopted by the Pakistan Democratic Alliance, there are 11 ministers from the PPP, nine from the PML-N, two from the ANP and one each from the JUI-F and Fata. The prime minister held an informal meeting with the prospective federal cabinet members at the PM House on Sunday evening.
From the PPP, the ministers are Shah Mehmood Qureshi (Foreign Minister), Sherry Rehman (Information Minister), Syed Naveed Qamar (Minister for Privatisation/Port and Shipping-additional), Raja Pervez Ashraf (Minister for Water and Power), Syed Khursheed Shah (Minister for Labour, Manpower and Overseas Pakistanis), Qamar Zaman Kaira (Minister for Kashmir Affairs), Senator Farooq Naek (Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights), Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar (Minister for Defence), Nazar Muhammad Gondal (Minister for Narcotics), Najamuddin Khan (Minister for States and Frontier Region) and Mir Humayon Aziz Kurd (Minister for Population Welfare).
Sources said that from the PML-N, the ministers are Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan (Senior Minister and expected to hold the portfolio of Food, Agriculture and Livestock and Communications), Senator Ishaq Dar (Minister for Finance, Economic Affairs and Commerce), Ahsan Iqbal (Minister for Education), Tehmina Daultana (Minister for Women Development), Sardar Mehtab Abbasi (Minister for Railways), Khawaja Asif (Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources), Rana Tanveer Hussain (Minister for Defense Production), Shahid Khakhan Abbasi (Ministry of Trade) and Khawaja Saad Rafiq (Minister for Youth Affairs).
From the ANP, the ministers are Ghulam Ahmed Bilour (Minister for Local Government and Rural Development) and Khawaja Mohammed Khan Hoti (Minister for Social Welfare).
From JUI-F, the minister Rehmatullah Kakar and FATA MNA Hameedullah Jan Afridi have been made the federal ministers.
The PPP and PML-N as well as JUI-F chose one senator each for inclusion in the cabinet i.e. Farooq Naek from the PPP, Ishaq Dar from the PML-N and Rahmatullah Kakar from the JUI-F. Prime Minister Gillani has already appointed Rehman Malik as Advisor to the Prime Minister on Interior with the status of a federal minister. There is a possibility that the JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman will be made Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir. Out of the 11 ministers of the PPP, only four have been part of the federal cabinet in the past including Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Khurshid Ahmed Shah, Naveed Qamar and Ahmed Mukhtar. The seven new faces of PPP include Sherry Rehman, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Farooq H Naek, Qamar-u-Zaman Kaira, Humayun Aziz Kurd, Nazar Muhammad Gondal and Najamuddin Khan. From PML-N Khawaja Saad Rafique has also not been part of a federal cabinet in the past while Haji Ghulam Ahmed Bilour of the ANP, Rehmatullah Kakar of the JUI-F and Hameedullah Jan Afridi of Fata would also become federal ministers for the first time. PML-N members will come soon after the oath-taking ceremony comes to an end without attending the luncheon with President Musharraf.
Re: President Musharraf administers oath to 24-member cabinet
President Musharraf of Pakistan has sworn in 24 members of a new cabinet, many of whom are political opponents eager to curtail his powers.
Twenty of those who took the oath on Monday are from either the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) or the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N).
Correspondents say that the president remained grim-faced throughout the low-key ceremony in Islamabad.
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"Three of the ministers wore black armbands! LOL
http://www.dawn.com/2008/03/31/welcome.htm
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"Three of the ministers wore black armbands! LOL
LOL. So in the end the PML (N) ministers took the oath from the alleged illegal President. :D
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24 ministers were sworn in, in total - 9 from the PML Nawaz. But only 3 wore black armbands, then it shows how confused, divided and angry the PML Nawaz ministers were.
The expressions on some of their faces, looked like they had drunk poison or something. I noticed Musharraf actually smirked at them. 