The 14-member provincial cabinet of Balochistan was sworn in at a ceremony held in the Governor House in Quetta.
Governor Abdul Wali Kakar administered the oath to the cabinet members, marking their official induction into office more than a month after the Chief Minister’s oath-taking.
Among the 14-member cabinet sworn in today are Zia Langau, Tariq Magsi, Shoaib Nosherwani, Raheel Durrani, Sadiq Umrani, Ali Madad Jattak, Zahoor Buledi, Noor Muhammad Dumar, Sardar Faisal Jamali, Sarfraz Domki, Abdul Rehman Khetran, Saleem Khosa, Asim Kurd Gello, and Bakht Kakar.
Earlier, on March 2, Mir Sarfraz Bugti of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Balochistan.
After assuming office, Chief Minister Bugti indicated that the cabinet formation would follow the Senate elections. All eleven of Balochistan’s Senators were elected unopposed in the Senate election on April 2.
It’s noteworthy that the newly elected MPAs of the Balochistan Assembly took their membership oaths in a session chaired by the presiding officer Engineer Zamrud Khan on February 28.
Among the 51 members who took the oath on general seats are representatives from the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), which emerged as the largest parties in the 65-member House.
The assembly also includes 11 reserved seats for women and three for minorities, with the PPP holding 11 seats and PML-N having 10 seats. Additionally, the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) have 10 and five seats, respectively.
