The Khoso caretaker ministry was the Pakistani

caretaker Caretaker may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''The Caretaker'' (film), a 1963 adaptation of the play ''The Caretaker'' * ''The Caretakers'', a 1963 American film set in a mental hospital * Caretaker, a character in the 1974 film '' T ...

federal cabinet that was sworn into office on 2 April 2013. On 24 March 2013,

Mir Hazar Khan Khoso Mir Hazar Khan Khoso (, ) (30 September 1929 – 26 June 2021) was a Pakistani jurist who was the caretaker prime minister of Pakistan from 25 March to 5 June 2013. Khoso was a judge who previously served as the Chief Justice of the Federal Shar ...

was nominated by the

Election Commission An election commission is a body charged with overseeing the implementation of electioneering process of any country. The formal names of election commissions vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and may be styled an electoral commission, a c ...

as the caretaker

prime minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

, out of four nominees coming from both the opposition and the dissolved government. Khoso was sworn into office on 25 March 2013. __TOC__

Cabinet

2013

Khoso's cabinet was sworn into office on 2 April 2013, but were handed their official portfolios on 4 April 2013 with the exception of Sohail Wajahat Siddique, who received his portfolio at a later date. At the swearing-in ceremony on 2 April 2013, 15 ministers were shortlisted for the cabinet but one chair was removed at the "eleventh hour". Dr Mushtaq Khan from

Sindh Sindh (; ; ur, , ; historically romanized as Sind) is one of the four provinces of Pakistan. Located in the southeastern region of the country, Sindh is the third-largest province of Pakistan by land area and the second-largest province ...

was touted to become the caretaker federal minister of finance but dropped out at the last minute. Speculations around his absence suggested that Khan was stopped from taking his oath because he had been serving as the chief economist at the

State Bank of Pakistan The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) ( ur, ) is the Central Bank of Pakistan. Its Constitution, as originally laid down in the State Bank of Pakistan Order 1948, remained basically unchanged until 1 January 1974, when the bank was Nationalized and ...

(SBP) and would have had to resign from the SBP before taking an oath in the caretaker setup.

References

{{Pakistani federal ministries 2013 establishments in Pakistan