21.   Under the accord, the MQM will have eight ministers in the provincial government and also get a ministry in the federal cabinet, he added.

22.   It has one minister in the seven-member federal cabinet, and shares power with the Socialist, Radical and Christian Democrat parties.

23.   Ministers in the four provinces and a federal cabinet at the centre are to be appointed in the next few days, party and official sources said.

24.   Members of the federal cabinet and the FNC are drawn proportionately from the seven emirates.

25.   Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto Wednesday appointed here husband Asif Ali Zardari as a minister in the federal cabinet, officials said.

26.   The committee was to prepare a report for the federal cabinet, although no decisions have been announced.

27.   The federal cabinet introduced capital punishment for drug smuggling earlier this year after a surge in trafficking operations.

28.   The federal cabinet approved the project at its weekly meeting on Monday and it will go into operation next year.

29.   The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the project, which is subject to finalisation of an agreement between the German government and the Tjarutja Aboriginal community.

30.   The independent Alwan daily said General Beshir will promulgate a decree on a reshuffle in the federal cabinet, combining several ministries and naming some new ministers.