The Pakistani Cabinet rose to fifty-nine ministers with the swearing in of twenty-seven lawmakers as ministers on Saturday, officials said. Five women legislators were included in the new ministers. President General Pervez Musharraf administered oath to the new ministers at a ceremony held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr (the presidential palace). Among the new inductees, twenty-six were ministers of state while one full minister. Thirty-two ministers were sworn in four days back. All but two ministers of the previous cabinet presided over by outgoing Prime Minister Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain were inducted in the cabinet headed by new Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, who assumed office last week. The ministers sworn in Saturday included Mrs. Anisa Zaib Tahirkheli, Amir Muqam, Miss Ghulam Bibi Bharwana, Ishaq Khakwani, Sardar Asif Nakai, Naseer Mengal, Mohammad Shahid Jalil Qureshi, Shahid Akhtar, Dr Waseem Shahzad, Hamid Yar Hiraj, Tariq Azim, Mohammed Ali Malkani, Umer Ghamman, Begum Shahnaz Shaikh, Zafar Iqbal Waraich, Mrs. Sumera Malik, Zahid Hamid, Mohammed Ali Durrani, Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtiar, Sikandar Hayat Bosan, Raza Hayat Hiraj, Dr. Aamir Liaquat Hussain, Umar Ayub, Miss Hina Rabbani Khar, Ali Asjad Malhi, Malik Amin Aslam and Ali Nawaz Mahar.
