{"id":57738,"date":"2019-11-19T17:07:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-19T12:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=57738"},"modified":"2019-11-19T17:07:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-19T12:07:45","slug":"asad-umar-rejoins-cabinet-planning-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/asad-umar-rejoins-cabinet-planning-minister.html","title":{"rendered":"Asad Umar rejoins cabinet as planning minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan\u2019s former Finance Minister Asad Umar will be rejoining the federal cabinet, a news source reported. Umar will return to the cabinet as the Minister for Planning &amp; Special Initiatives.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/finance-department-asked-to-release-pkr-200-million-for-olmt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Finance department asked to release PKR 200 million for OLMT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Special Assistant to Prime Minister (PM) on Information &amp; Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan revealed the information on Monday. She stated that they aim to expand the cabinet. In this regard, they have now made Khusro Bakhtiar \u2013 who was serving as the Minister of Planning &amp; Development until now \u2013 as the new Federal Minister for Petroleum.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/finance-ministry-to-change-law-for-filing-income-tax-returns.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Finance Ministry to change law for filing income tax returns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The PM\u2019s aide added that they will issue an official notification regarding the changes made soon. As per sources, there is no information on the portfolio assigned to Ghulam Sarwar Khan, who was serving as the Minister for Petroleum &amp; Natural Resources until now.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/govt-reveals-ease-doing-business-roadmap-petroleum-sector.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Govt reveals \u2018ease of doing business\u2019 roadmap for petroleum sector<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Umar had resigned from his position as the Finance Minister on April 18. At the time of resignation, he had revealed that the PM had offered him the post of the Energy Minister, which he had declined \u2013 not believing it to be the right step.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Pakistan\u2019s former Finance Minister Asad Umar will be rejoining the federal cabinet, a news source reported. Umar will return to the cabinet as the Minister for Planning &amp; Special Initiatives. Read:\u00a0Finance department asked to release PKR 200 million for OLMT Special Assistant to Prime Minister (PM) on Information &amp; Broadcasting Firdous Ashiq Awan revealed the information on Monday. She stated that they aim to expand the cabinet. In this regard, they have now made Khusro Bakhtiar \u2013 who was serving as the Minister of Planning &amp; Development until now \u2013 as the new Federal Minister for Petroleum. Read:\u00a0Finance Ministry to change law for filing income tax returns The PM\u2019s aide added that they will issue an official notification regarding the changes made soon. As per sources, there is no information on the portfolio assigned to Ghulam Sarwar Khan, who was serving as the Minister for Petroleum &amp; Natural Resources until now. Read:\u00a0Govt reveals \u2018ease of doing business\u2019 roadmap for petroleum sector Umar had resigned from his position as the Finance Minister on April 18. At the time of resignation, he had revealed that the PM had offered him the post of the Energy Minister, which he had declined \u2013&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":47307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14027],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-details-on-asad-umar-rejoins-cabinet-as-planning-minister"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Asad Umar rejoins cabinet as planning minister - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: Pakistan\u2019s former Finance Minister Asad Umar will be rejoining the federal cabinet, a news source reported. 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