Its top job will be to lead the country towards economic stabilisation.
KARACHI: Pakistan swore in a caretaker cabinet under interim prime minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar today, tasking it with running the country until fresh elections, which may be delayed beyond November as constituency boundaries are redrawn.
The election commission said today that new constituencies based on the latest census would be finalised by Dec 14, state television reported.Electoral experts have suggested that process could see the nationwide vote pushed back several months, possibly until February. In the interim cabinet, former central bank chief Shamshad Akhtar was appointed as finance minister and Pakistan’s former ambassador to the US, Jalil Abbas Jilani, was named foreign minister, the new information minister Murtaza Solangi said.Recent economic reforms have led to historic levels of inflation and high interest rates, putting pressure on ordinary people and businesses.
Political analysts say that if the caretaker set-up stretches beyond its constitutional tenure, a prolonged period without an elected government would allow the military, which has ruled the country directly for more than three decades of its 76-year existence, to consolidate control.
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