Caretaker cabinets in Punjab, KP take oath.

LAHORE/PESHAWAR -- An eight-member caretaker Punjab cabinet was sworn in on Thursday night at a ceremony held at the Governor House Lahore.

Punjab Governor Muhammad Baligh ur Rehman administered oath to the caretaker cabinet. Chief Secretary Punjab, Chaudhry Zahid Akhtar Zaman read out the notification regarding the appointments.

The caretaker cabinet includes SM Tanveer (A businessman), Dr. Javed Akram (ex-VC UHS and brother of LHC judge Malik Qayyum (late) and PML-N ex-MNA Pervaiz Malik (late), Ibrahim Murad (President UMT University Lahore), Bilal Afzal (Director Punjab group of colleges) Dr. Jamal Nasir (an ex-bureaucrat), Mansoor Qadir (a retired PMS officer who also served as commissioner Gujranwala division), Syed Azfar Ali Nasir (an industrialist) and Aamir Mir (a senior journalist and younger brother of Hamid Mir). Caretaker Chief Minister Punjab ,Syed Mohsin Raza Naqvi, Chief Secretary Punjab Chaudhry Zahid Akhtar Zaman, Inspector General of Police Punjab Dr. Usman Anwar among others were present in the solemn ceremony.Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Haji Ghulam Ali on Thursday administered oath to 14 members of the interim cabinet, amid reports that most of the cabinet members were chosen on basis of their 'connections'.The governor approved the interim cabinet under Article 224(1A) of the Constitution, according to a notification released by the KP government's Administrative Department.

The ministers who took oath included former inspector general (IG) Syed Masood Shah, Barrister Sanwal Nazir, Bakht Nawaz, Fazal Elahi, Adnan Jalil, Shafi Ullah Khan, Shahid Khan Khattak, Haji Ghufran, Khushdil Khan Malik, Taj Muhammad Afridi, Muhammad Ali Shah, and Justice (r) Irshad Qaiser, Manzoor Khan Afridi, Abdul Haleem Qasuriya, and Hamid Shah.

The ministers were sworn in at the Governor's House. The interim cabinet...