ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf on Tuesday approved the portfolios for 15 federal and state ministers belonging to the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q).
As per a notification of the Cabinet Division, Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi would be the deputy prime minister as well as senior federal minister for industries.
Other PML-Q ministers include: Sardar Bahadur Khan Sehar (federal minister for defence production), Ch Wajahat Hussain (federal minister for man power), Ghaus Bux Mehar (federal minister for privatisation), Anwar Ali Cheema (federal minister for production), Sardar Talib Hussain Nakai (federal minister for housing), Liaquat Abbas Bhatti (federal minister for works), Sheikh Waqas Akram (federal minister for professional & technical training), Saeed Khan Mandokhel (minister of state for privatisation), Khawaja Sheraz Mehmood (state minister for production), Rana Asif Tauseef (state minister for works), Sardar Shahjehan Yousaf (state minister for professional & technical training), Malik Nouman Langrial (state minister for housing), Ghias Ahmad (state minister for manpower) and Akram Masih Gill (state minister for national harmony). Jam Muhammad Yousaf has also been given the status of the federal minister, however, he has yet not been allotted any portfolio, said the notification.