22 members of new federal cabinet on Friday took oath in Aiwan-i-Sadr Islmabad.

President Asif Ali Zardari has administered oath to them. The new cabinet included 18 old and four new ministers. It also included one minister of state, Hina Rabbani Khar.

The ministers, who took oath, Naveed Qamar, Rehman Malik, Mir Hazar Khan Bajarany, Mian Manzoor Watto, Makhdom Shahab-ud-Din, Ch. Ahmed Mukhtar, Hina Rabani Khar, Samina Gharki, Babar Awan, Dr. Hafiz Shaikh, Arbab Alamgir, Ameen Fahim, Shahbaz Bhutti, Firdous Ashiq Awan, Khursheed Shah, Khuda Buksh Rajar, Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, Raza Rabani, Israr ullh Zahri, Changeez Jamali, Sardar Mohammad Umar Goreja and Shaukat Ullah.

Prominent members of the previous federal cabinet, who had not been included in the cabinet, are Qamar Zaman Kaira, Raja Parvez Ashraf and Nazar Muhammad Gondal.