Asad Umar to return to cabinet as planning minister

[RangeMaster]

The federal government has decided to appoint Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf lawmaker Asad Umar as the minister for planning and special initiative, PM’s aide on Information Firdous Ashiq Awan said Monday.

The PM’s aide made the announcement on Twitter. She said Khusro Bakhtiar would be made the petroleum minister.


“A notification will soon be issued in this regard,” Awan added.

Umar previously served as the finance minister in Prime Minister Imran Khan’s cabinet. He stepped down in April 2019 after he received a lot of criticism for the way he handled the country’s financial crisis.

On the other hand, Umar and Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry met with senior party figure Jahangir Tareen on Monday.

They held a detailed discussion on the political situation and government affairs, according to PTI sources.

Tareen also felicitated Umar on his return to the federal cabinet.

With additional reporting from Abbas Shabbir. Follow SAMAA English on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

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[Kompromat]

He was removed by IMF.

 

[Yaseen1]

i think he should be given finance ministry after poor performance by current minister.he was trying to build economy on self reliance and without depending on imf that is why removed

 

[Imad.Khan]

As far as i had heard Omer Ayub Khan had done pretty well in the Petroleum Ministry, where is he going to be placed?

 

[B.K.N]

i think he should be given finance ministry after poor performance by current minister.he was trying to build economy on self reliance and without depending on imf that is why removed

Was he going to take loan from his brother who is noon in league instead of IMF?

 

[Invictus.inc]

Have been working in his constituency for the past couple of years
All he's good at is talking
Thousands of dengue patients walked into our hospital and the MNA of that area never seemed to bother about the condition of the only major government run hospital of Islamabad
This exact same attitude was demonstrated by him in his ministry
He's nothing but a paper tiger who can slip past with his words

 

[doorstar]

because Asad Umar is such a great economist who thinks that what Pakistan owes is same as what the US "owes" to China. not realizing that Pakistan borrowed and America received investments from Chinese, not the same thing at all.

He was removed by IMF.

 

[Dil_Pakistan]

As far as i had heard Omer Ayub Khan had done pretty well in the Petroleum Ministry, where is he going to be placed?

Omer Ayub is performing in energy, power sector ministry. I am not sure if he was given petroleum ministry, probably additional, but there was petroleum secratory who was made advisor. I am not sure if Khusro Bakhtiar has been given that ministry even, as was being speculated, maybe will get it later. One channel was reporting he got some food authority ministry lol.

 

[VCheng]

He was removed by IMF.

Absolutely FALSE. Only the PM has the authority to make changes to his cabinet.