After taking over as prime minister, PML-N President Nawaz Sharif will induct an 18-member cabinet and will also have three advisers including Mehtab Abbasi and Liaquat Jatoi, sources said.
Working on the recommendations of former senior bureaucrats committee, led by Khawaja Zaheer, the PML-N government will merge the Petroleum and Water and Power Ministry and will rename it the Ministry for Energy.
The sources said the Economic Affairs Ministry will be remerged with the Finance Ministry while the Ministry of Communications will be restored to its original position with the elimination of separate ministries of Postal Services, and Ports and Shipping.
The Ministry of Housing and Works which was bifurcated to please the PML-Q will again be remerged into one ministry.
The CAD Division and the National Heritage Ministry will be dissolved and the two departments would be given to the Cabinet Division, they said, adding that the Ministry of Industry and Production will also be merged.
The sources said a formal announcement in this regard will be made on June 1 but a decision regarding who would be made ministers had already been made. The would-be ministers include Ishaq Dar, Nisar Ali Khan, Khawaja Asif, Abdul Qadir Baloch, Abdul Hakeem Baloch, Sardar Yusuf, Saad Rafiq and Pervez Rashid.
The sources said former chief ministers of Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Liaqat Jatoi and Mehtab Abbasi, who lost National Assembly seats, will be made advisers to the prime minister.
It has also been decided that all the ministries and departments will be devolved to the provinces as provided in the 18th Amendment.
