ISLAMABAD: Interim Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar will keep three of Shehbaz Sharif’s top aides, but he won’t change any federal secretaries right away.
Kakar, a former senator and leader of the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP), took the oath of office as Pakistan’s eighth acting prime minister the day before. He will run the country until the general elections in a few months.
Sources told on Monday that the acting PM had kept on Dr. Syed Tauqir Hussain Shah as the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister (PSPM). As well as former PM advisor Ahad Cheema and joint secretary Mohib Ali.
Shah would keep his job as PSPM until October of this year. After that, he would move to the World Bank. He work there for four years as the group executive director of Pakistan.
Sources also said that Cheema expected to get a job like a federal minister. The Press Secretary to PM Abdul Akbar would be one of the officers who would keep their jobs.
Arshad Muneer Khan, who just moved up to grade 21, would be put in charge of information (PIO).
Brigadier Tajdeed Mumtaz, who is the Military Secretary (MS) to the Prime Minister, would also keep doing his job as an administrator.
Sources say that talks about the caretaker federal cabinet will start today, and that the cabinet may be named later this week.
