ISLAMABAD: Nawaz Sharif is chairing a high-level meeting of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaders in Murree.
Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif, along with PML-N leaders Ishaq Dar, Chaudhry Nisar, Ahsan Iqbal, Mehtab Abbasi and Pervez Rasheed, are attending the meeting.
Khawaja Saad Rafique and Khawaja Asif have also reached Murree to attend the meeting.
At the start of the meeting, Nawaz exchanged pleasantries with Abbasi. The new prime minister thanked the party leader and his predecessor for his support.
Contemporary political developments and formation of a new federal cabinet are being discussed in the meeting, according to sources. The meeting will also decide on the advisers and special assistants of the new premier.
The federal cabinet is expected to retain a majority of the members on the same posts that were part of Nawaz Sharif’s cabinet.
Abbasi, too, was serving as the petroleum minister in Sharif’s cabinet till last Friday.
Sources said former States and Frontier Regions minister Lt Gen (retd) Abdul Qadir Baloch may be given the interior ministry portfolio.
Nisar is expected to be given the post of foreign minister, according to sources.
However, sources had claimed earlier that Nisar will not be a part of the new cabinet.
Nawaz has been camped in Murree after vacating the PM House this weekend following his disqualification as prime minister by the Supreme Court.
