27 more Pak ministers take oath of office
Pakistani President Pervez Mush-arraf yesterday swore in another 27 ministers, three days after inducting a 32-member cabinet headed by newly elected Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, officials said.
One federal minister and 26 ministers of state took their oaths of office, they said.
Portfolios of the ministers would be announced later, the officials said.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. Aziz, a key ally of Musharraf, was sworn in as prime minister last week and won a parliamentary vote of confidence that was boycotted by the opposition.
He was chosen for the job after Zafarullah Jamali resigned in June in a transfer of power planned by Musharraf.
Aziz, a former Citibank executive, entered politics as finance minister after Musharraf's 1999 coup and still retains the finance ministry.
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