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Ishaque Zafar takes oath as AJK minister

MUZAFFARABAD: Ishaque Zafar once again has been inducted in the AJK cabinet as senior minister after the dissolution of the cabinet on Friday.

In a simple ceremony held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr here on Saturday the AJK President, Mohammad Ibrahim Khan, administered the oath to the newly inducted senior minister.

The portfolio of the senior minister will be announced later.

AJK Deputy Speaker, Syed Shoukat Hussain Naqvi, secretaries, IGP AJK, legislators and notables also attended the oath taking ceremony.

Ishaque, in the previous AJK cabinet, held the portfolio of finance and administration.ÑAPP