Cabinet of Pakistan

The Cabinet of Pakistan (Urdu: کابینہِ پاکستان, Kābīnā-e-Pākistān) is a formal body composed of senior government officials chosen and led by the Prime Minister.^[1] All cabinet members sworn in are designated Minister and are seated at their respective ministries located in the Pakistan Secretariat.

Cabinet of Pakistan

کابینہِ پاکستان
Agency overview
Formed	14 August 1947; 77 years ago (1947-08-14)
Type	highest executive body of the federal government
Jurisdiction	Government of Pakistan
Headquarters	Islamabad
Agency executive	Shehbaz Sharif, Prime Minister
Child agency	Ministries of the Government of Pakistan
Website	www.pakistan.gov.pk

The Cabinet Secretary of Pakistan serves as the administrative head of the Cabinet Division and reports directly to the Prime Minister.^[2] According to the Constitution of Pakistan, the Prime Minister may dismiss members of the cabinet, but must do so in writing, and new appointees must again be approved by the Parliament. The cabinet meets weekly in Islamabad. The cabinet is granted constitutional power under Article 81D of the Constitution of Pakistan.^[3] The existence of the cabinet dates back to Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan, who appointed civil servants and statesmen to his first cabinet. On 10 April 2022, Shehbaz Sharif's ministry was formed after Sharif was elected as prime minister by the National Assembly of Pakistan.^[4][5]

Current cabinet

This section is transcluded from Second Shehbaz Sharif ministry. (edit | history)

Federal ministers

Federal ministers
		Name	Portfolio	Party	Citation
	1	Shehbaz Sharif	Prime Minister of Pakistan Other Portfolios 1. All Portfolios/Ministries not held by other ministers in cabinet 2. Cabinet Secretariat Aviation Division Cabinet Division Establishment Division National Security Division Poverty Alleviation and Social Safety Division 3. Exit Control List (ECL) Cabinet Body[6]	PMLN	[7]
	2	Ishaq Dar	● Deputy Prime Minister ● Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs	PMLN
	3	Khawaja Asif	● Federal Minister of Defence ● Federal Minister of Defence Production ● Federal Minister for Aviation	PMLN
	4	Ahsan Iqbal	● Federal Minister of Planning Development & Special Initiatives	PMLN
	5	Rana Tanveer Hussain	● Federal Minister of Industries and Production ● Federal Minister for National Food Security and Research	PMLN
	6	Azam Nazeer Tarar	● Federal Minister for Law and Justice ● Federal Minister for Human Rights ● Federal Minister for Parliamentary Affairs	PMLN
	7	Chaudhry Salik Hussain	● Federal Minister of Overseas Pakistanis and Resources Development ● Federal Minister for Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony	PML(Q)
	8	Aleem Khan	● Federal Minister of Privatization ● Federal Minister for the Board of Investment ● Federal Minister for Communication	IPP
	9	Jam Kamal Khan	● Federal Minister for Commerce	PMLN
	10	Amir Muqam	● Federal Minister of States and Frontier Regions ● Federal Minister of Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan	PMLN
	11	Awais Leghari	● Federal Minister of Power	PMLN
	12	Attaullah Tarar	● Federal Minister of Information and Broadcasting ● Federal Minister of National Heritage and Culture	PMLN
	13	Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui	● Federal Minister of Science and Technology ● Federal Minister of Education and Professional Training	MQM-P
	14	Qaiser Ahmed Sheikh	● Federal Minister of Maritime Affairs	PMLN
	15	Riaz Hussain Pirzada	● Federal Minister of Housing and Works	PMLN
	16	Musadik Malik	● Federal Minister for Petroleum ● Federal Minister for Water Resources	PMLN
	17	Muhammad Aurangzeb	● Federal Minister of Finance and Revenue	PMLN
	18	Ahad Cheema	● Federal Minister of Economic Affairs ● Federal Minister of the Establishment	PMLN
	19	Mohsin Naqvi	● Federal Minister of Interior ● Federal Minister for Narcotics Control	IPP

Ministers Of State

Minister of State
#		Name	Portfolio	Party	Citation
	1	Shaza Fatima Khawaja	● Minister of State for Information Technology & Telecommunication	PMLN	[8]
	2	Ali Pervaiz Malik	● Minister of State for Finance and Revenue ● Minister of State for Power Division	PMLN

Adviser to the prime minister

Adviser to the prime minister
#		Name	Portfolio	Party	Citation
	1	Rana Sanaullah	● Political and Public Affairs ● Inter-Provincial Coordination	PMLN	[9]

Special assistant to the prime minister

Special assistant to the prime minister
#		Name	Portfolio	Status	Party	Citation
	1	Tariq Fatemi	—	● Minister of State	PMLN	[10]

Coordinator to the prime minister

Coordinator to the prime minister
#		Name	Portfolio	Party	Citation
	1	Malik Mukhtar Ahmad Bharath	● National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination	PMLN	[11]
	2	Shabbir Ahmed Usmani	● Kashmir Affairs & Gilgit Baltistan	PMLN
	3	Badar Shahbaz	● Media Coordinator	PMLN
	4	Romina Khurshid Alam	● Climate Change & Environmental Coordination	PMLN
	5	Rana Ihsaan Afzal Khan	● General Issues[12]	PMLN

Cabinet division and cabinet secretariat

The current Federal Secretary of the Cabinet is Kamran Ali Afzal, since his appointment in August 2023.^[13] On 20 March the National Seed Development and Regulatory Authority (NSDRA) and Cannabis Control and Regulatory Authority were both placed under the administrative control of the Cabinet Division.^[14][15] The Cabinet Secretariat is directly under the Prime Minister and Cabinet Secretary, controlling the Aviation Division, Cabinet Division, Establishment Division, National Security Division and Poverty Alleviation & Social Safety Division.^[16]

Cabinet committees

On 21 March the Cabinet Secretariat (Pakistan) would issue two separate notifications constituting the Economic Coordination Committee (Pakistan) (ECC) and the Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE), by the Prime Minister under terms of rule 17(2) of Rules of Business, 1973. Both would be retained directly under Shehbaz Sharif, becoming Chairman of both committees.^[17][18] On the same day Shehbaz would also approve the reconstitution of the Cabinet Committee on Privatization (CCoP), with MoFA Ishaq Dar as Chairman with the secretarial support of the Committee provided by the Aviation Division (Pakistan); and the reconstitution of the Cabinet Committee on State-Owned Enterprises (CCoSOEs), with Minister of Finance and Revenue, Muhammad Aurangzeb as Chairman.^[19][20] Additional Committees constituted on 21 March include the Cabinet Committee on Disposal of Legislative Cases (CCLC) under Azam Nazeer Tarar, the Cabinet Committee on Chinese Investment Projects (CCoCIP) under Ahsan Iqbal, and a committee to "speed up" the privatization of Pakistan International Airways (PIA) under Khawaja Asif.^[21] With forty-eight hours, on 23 March the Cabinet Division issued a notification, appointing Muhammad Aurangzeb as new Chairman of the ECC, with Shehbaz Sharif withdrawing from the committee^[22] Previously Aurangzeb held chairmanship of only the Cabinet Committee on SOEs (CCoSOEs), while Ishaq Dar also held a prominent role in the new cabinet committees as chairman of Cabinet Committee on Privatisation (CCoP).^[23] This was a departure from past practices, where finance ministers chaired three out of four committees.^[24] With Shahbaz Rana writing that the "PM had "clipped" the Finance Minister’s "decision-making wings" by depriving him of the ECC.^[25] The decision to place Aurangzeb as chairman also came after criticism from "all quarters."^[24] Pakistan newspaper Dawn, quoting a senior member of the cabinet officially stated that the PM had “regretted he would be unable to chair the ECC meetings due to his hectic schedule and engagements.”^[26] On 28 March the Cabinet Committee on Inter-Governmental Commercial Transactions (CCoIGCT) would be constituted, chaired by Khawaja Asif, with Terms of Reference (ToR) that the committee may authorize, recommend approval, and constitute a negotiation committee for a G2G or commercial agreement with a foreign state, as well as approve price-discovery mechanisms, submit recommendations for existing regulatory compliance. Operating under the clauses (c) and (d) of sub-section (2) of Section (4) of the Inter-Governmental Commercial Transactions Act, 2022.^[27]

Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet
Minister	Referenced Office	Status	By Special Invitation/Co-Opted	Citation
Muhammad Aurangzeb	Finance	Chairman	● Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission ● Governor of State Bank of Pakistan ● Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission ● Fourteen (14) Federal Secretaries[a] ● Chairman of the Board of Investment	[28]
Ahad Cheema	Economic Affairs	Committee Member
Jam Kamal Khan	Commerce
Awais Leghari	Energy
Musadik Malik	Petroleum
Ahsan Iqbal	Planning

Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE)
Minister	Referenced Office	Status	By Special Invitation/Co-Opted	Citation
Shehbaz Sharif	Prime Minister	Chairman	● Chairman of OGRA ● Chairman of NEPRA ● Secretary of the Finance Division ● Secretary of the Power Division ● Secretary of the Petroleum Division ● Secretary of the Law & Justice Division	[29]
Ahad Cheema	Economic Affairs	Committee Member
Muhammad Aurangzeb	Finance
Musadik Malik	Petroleum
Ahsan Iqbal	Planning
Awais Leghari	Energy

Cabinet Committee on Privatization (CCoP)
Minister	Referenced Office	Status	By Special Invitation/Co-Opted	Citation
Ishaq Dar	Foreign Affairs	Chairman	● Governor of State Bank of Pakistan ● Chairman of the Securities Exchange Commission ● Ten (10) Federal Secretaries[b]	[30]
Muhammad Aurangzeb	Finance	Committee Member
Jam Kamal Khan	Commerce
Awais Leghari	Energy
Rana Tanveer Hussain	Industries & Production
Aleem Khan	Privatisation

Cabinet Committee for Disposal of Legislative Cases (CCLC)
Minister	Referenced Office	Status	By Special Invitation/Co-Opted	Citation
Azam Nazeer Tarar	Law & Justice	Chairman	● Attorney General for Pakistan ● Cabinet Secretary ● Secretary of the Law & Justice Division ● Additional Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office	[31]
Attaullah Tarar	Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (Pakistan)	Committee Member
Chaudhry Salik Hussain	Overseas Pakistanis & HR Development
Jam Kamal Khan	Pakistan Secretary of Economic Affairs
Aleem Khan	Pakistan Secretary of Economic Affairs
Rana Tanveer Hussain	Ministry of Industries and Production

Cabinet Committee on Chinese Investment Projects (CCoCIP)
Minister	Referenced Office	Status	By Special Invitation/Co-Opted	Citation
Ahsan Iqbal	Planning	Chairman	● Governor of State Bank of Pakistan ● Sixteen (16) Federal Secretaries[c]	[32]
Ishaq Dar	Ministry of Finance (Pakistan)	Committee Member
Shaza Fatima Khawaja	Ministry of Interior (Pakistan)
Muhammad Aurangzeb	Pakistan Secretary of Economic Affairs
Jam Kamal Khan	Ministry of Energy (Pakistan)
Musadik Malik	Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division)
Awais Leghari	Ministry of Planning Development & Special Initiatives
Usman Awaisi	Ministry of Railways (Pakistan)
Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui	Ministry of Science and Technology (Pakistan)

Cabinet Committee on State-Owned Enterprises (CCoSOEs)
Minister	Referenced Office	Status	By Special Invitation/Co-Opted	Citation
Muhammad Aurangzeb	Finance	Chairman	● Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission (Pakistan)	[33]
Qaiser Ahmed Sheikh	Ministry of Maritime Affairs (Pakistan)	Committee Member
Aleem Khan	Pakistan Secretary of Economic Affairs
Awais Leghari	Ministry of Energy (Pakistan)
Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui	Ministry of Science and Technology (Pakistan)
Riaz Hussain Pirzada	Ministry of Housing and Works (Pakistan)

Cabinet Committee on State-Owned Enterprises (CCoSOEs)
Minister	Referenced Office	Status	By Special Invitation/Co-Opted	Citation
Khawaja Asif	Defense	Chairman	● Secretary of the Privatisation Division ● Chair may invite any Secretary or Head of Organization	[27]
Muhammad Aurangzeb	Ministry of Maritime Affairs (Pakistan)	Committee Member
Aun Chaudhry	Pakistan Secretary of Economic Affairs
Aleem Khan	Ministry of Energy (Pakistan)
Musadik Malik	Ministry of Industries and Production

Cabinet Committee on Emigration, Overseas Employment and TVET[d]
Minister	Referenced Office	Status	By Special Invitation/Co-Opted	Citation
Shehbaz Sharif	Prime Minister	Chairman	● National Coordinator of SIFC ● Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan ● Executive Director of NAVTTC ● Chairman of the Higher Education Commission	[34]
Muhammad Aurangzeb	Ministry of Maritime Affairs (Pakistan)	Committee Member
Ahad Cheema	Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training
Ishaq Dar	Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan)
Mohsin Naqvi	Ministry of Interior (Pakistan)
Mukhtar Ahmad Bharath	Ministry of National Health Services, Regulation and Coordination
Rana Tanveer Hussain	Ministry of Industries and Production
Jam Kamal Khan	Ministry of Commerce (Pakistan)

Special Investment Facilitation Council Cabinet Committee (SIFC-CC)
Minister	Referenced Office	Status	By Special Invitation/Co-Opted	Citation
Shehbaz Sharif	Prime Minister	Chairman	● Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) ● Provincial Chief Ministers ● National Coordinator, SIFC	[35]
Muhammad Aurangzeb	Ministry of Maritime Affairs (Pakistan)	Committee Member
Khawaja Asif	Defense
Ahsan Iqbal	Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan)
Mohsin Naqvi	Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication
Mukhtar Ahmad Bharath	Ministry of National Food Security & Research
Awais Leghari	Power Division (Pakistan)
Jam Kamal Khan	Ministry of Water Resources (Pakistan)
Azam Nazeer Tarar	Ministry of Law and Justice (Pakistan)
Aleem Khan	Board of Investment (Pakistan)
Rana Tanveer Hussain	Ministry of Industries and Production
Musadik Malik	Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division)