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Daily Times Khusro Bakhtiar given charge of industries and production; Shibli Faraz handed over science and technology portfolio Hammad Azhar gets energy ministry in latest cabinet reshuffle
April 17, 2021
Prime Minister Imran Khan Friday reshuffled his cabinet, changing the portfolios of his government’s key ministers and appointing Shaukat Fayaz Tareen as a new minister for finance and revenue.
Tareen, the second former PPP lawmaker picked as the finance minister, has replaced PTI’s recently appointed finance minister Hammad Azhar, who has now been given the portfolio of energy. Tareen earlier served as the finance minister in former prime minister Yousaf Raza Gilani’s cabinet from 2009-2010.
This combination file photo shows Hammad Azhar (L) and Shaukat Tarin (R). APP
In yet another shuffle in the federal cabinet on Friday, Hammad Azhar has been removed from the office of finance minister less than a month after his appointment and replaced by ex-PPP minister Shaukat Fayyaz Ahmed Tarin who was also given the additional portfolio of revenue.
Newly appointed Minister for Information and Broadcasting Fawad Chaudhry confirmed the news of the cabinet reshuffle to
Dawn.
Azhar, who was appointed as finance minister less than a month ago, has now been given the portfolio of energy.
Meanwhile, former energy minister Omar Ayub has been made the minister for economic affairs. Former information minister Shibli Faraz, who was replaced by Fawad Chaudhry a day earlier, has been made the minister for science and technology the office previously headed by Chaudhry.