Fawad gets additional portfolio of federal law ministry

ISLAMABAD: Following Prime Minister Imran Khan’s approval, Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Chaudhry has been granted additional responsibility for the federal law ministry.

The Cabinet Division issued a notification to that effect.

Chaudhary Fawad Hussain paid a visit to the Ministry of Law and Justice, where the Secretary of Law briefed him on the ministry’s operations.

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Earlier on Friday Fawad Chaudhry announced that he will be appointed as the new Law Minister and that his first step will be to ask the courts to suspend Shehbaz Sharif and Humza Shehbaz’s bails.

He announced to file a petition in the court for the cancellation of PML-N President Shehbaz Sharif’s bail in a corruption case.

Both Shehbaz Sharif and his son Hamza Shehbaz, who were on bail in the corruption cases, were looking for the slots of prime minister and Punjab chief minister, he said while talking to the media.

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“I was just told that the law ministry’s charge is being given to me… I, at once, will ask for filing petitions for the cancellation of bail of both Shehbaz and Hamza,” he added.

Note that the Law ministry’s slot was vacated after Farogh Naseem resigned from the post, following MQM-P’s decision to support the joint opposition’s no-trust motion.