{"id":13677,"date":"2017-08-14T14:31:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T09:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=13677"},"modified":"2017-08-14T14:37:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T09:37:44","slug":"sartaj-aziz-appointed-deputy-chairman-planning-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=13677","title":{"rendered":"More  appointed deputy chairman Planning Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD, Aug 14 (TNS):<\/strong> Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi\u2019s 47-member cabinet has been expanded further after he approved the appointment of five advisers and head of the Planning Commission.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued by the PM Office, Sartaj Aziz has been appointed deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, with the status of a federal minister. Mr Aziz was earlier an adviser to the PM on foreign affairs, in the absence of a full-fledged foreign minister.<\/p>\n<p>The position was previously held by Ahsan Iqbal, who has now been entrusted with the all-important task of managing the affairs of Interior Division.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Lt Gen Nasser Janjua has been reinstated as the National Security Adviser, the post he held before the Nawaz Sharif cabinet was dissolved.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, four advisers to the PM were appointed without being allocated any portfolio. The advisers are PML-N leaders Amir Muqam, Sardar Mehtab, Jam Mashooq Ali and Irfan Siddiqui, who was an adviser to Mr Sharif for national and literary heritage.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD, Aug 14 (TNS): Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi\u2019s 47-member cabinet has been expanded further after he approved the appointment of five advisers and head of the Planning Commission. According to a statement issued by the PM Office, Sartaj Aziz has been appointed deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, with the status of a federal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[589],"class_list":["post-13677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13679,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13677\/revisions\/13679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}