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AJK PM Allocates Portfolios to 18-Minister Cabinet, Names Two Advisers

The official notification clarifies control of key departments, signaling PPP-aligned priorities.

Overview

  • An official order on Nov. 21 assigned ministries across the new Azad Jammu and Kashmir cabinet, making the lineup fully operational.
  • Senior minister Mian Abdul Waheed retained law, justice, parliamentary affairs and human rights, while Chaudhry Qasim Majeed took finance and inland revenue and Syed Bazil Ali Naqvi assumed health and population welfare.
  • Nabila Ayoub was given the Kashmir cause brief, Chaudhry Arshad received energy and water resources, Sardar Ziaul Qamar took works and communications, and Chaudhry Amar Yasin was assigned local government and rural development.
  • Adviser Fahad Yaqoob was tasked with trade and industry, labour, sericulture and the Government Printing Press, while Adviser Sardar Ahmad Saghir took sports, youth and culture.
  • The cabinet held its first meeting, approving employee regularisation and road projects, clearing long-pending local council pensions and risk allowances, and ordering a one-week review of the Health Card and proposals to ease staffing shortages in schools.