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ISLAMABAD: In a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday, the PPP government, changed it’s federal law minister yet again as it appointed former Chairman Senate Farooq H. Naek for the position, DawnNews reported.
President Asif Ali Zardari will administer the oath, while the oath taking ceremony will also be attended by Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and some federal ministers later today.
According to sources, Senator Sughra Imam’s name was also on the list of new federal ministers to be appointed, but she was yet to take the oath.
Moreover, Former Law Minister Maula Bux Chandio would be assigned a new portfolio, added the sources.
However, keeping in mind earlier news reports on speculation that Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar might lose her portfolio, sources said that she has succeeded in holding on to her ministry.
A Foreign Office spokesperson had earlier said that the foreign minister’s removal from her current post was "nothing but speculation and groundless to the core."
Also on Wednesday, the prime minister conferred the status of Federal Minister on Sherry Rehman, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US. A notification was issued in this regard by the Cabinet Division on Wednesday evening.
