The 34-member government of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif takes the oath of office.

After several days of delay, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s 34-member Cabinet was sworn in on Tuesday (April 19, 2022), with Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani giving the oath to new ministers in the absence of President Arif Alvi.

The ceremony was supposed to take place on Monday, but President Alvi refused to deliver the oath, forcing the administration to postpone it.

Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, the head of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), was not among the ministers. He had previously been mentioned as the country’s next foreign minister.

To join Prime Minister Sharif, 31 federal ministers and three state ministers took the oath at first.