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ISLAMABAD: Abdul Hafeez Shaikh was made a federal minister on Friday after President Arif Alvi administered oath to him at the President House.Before being made a minister, Shaikh was serving.
PM shuffles the cards, again
Rashid put on helm of interior ministry amid PDM protests; Azam Swati, Ijaz Shah swap portfolios
In yet another rejig of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday elevated his Adviser Dr Abdul Hafeez Shaikh as the full-fledged Minister for Finance and brought high-profile political ally Sheikh Rashid Ahmed to the interior ministry’s helm.
The prime minister picked Azam Khan Swati, who was serving as the minister of counter-narcotics, to replace Rashid as the railways minister, while Rashid’s predecessor at the interior ministry, Brig (retd) Ijaz Ahmed Shah, was given the narcotics control ministry, vacated by Swati.