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Khoso caretaker government

Caretaker cabinet of Pakistan in 2013

Khoso Caretaker Government
44th Cabinet of Pakistan
Date formed	2 April 2013
Date dissolved	7 June 2013
People and organisations
Head of state	Asif Ali Zardari
Head of government	Mir Hazar Khan Khoso
Status in legislature	Caretaker government
History
Predecessor	Ashraf government
Successor	Third Nawaz Sharif ministry

The Khoso caretaker government was the Pakistani caretaker federal cabinet that was sworn into office on 2 April 2013.^[1] On 24 March 2013, Mir Hazar Khan Khoso was nominated by the Election Commission as the Caretaker Prime minister, out of four nominees coming from both the opposition and the dissolved government.^[2] Khoso was sworn into office on 25 March 2013.^[3]

Khoso's cabinet was sworn into office on 2 April 2013,^[1] 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.^[4]

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".^[1] Dr Mushtaq Khan from Sindh was touted to become the caretaker federal minister of finance but dropped out at the last minute.^[5] 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 (SBP) and would have had to resign from the SBP before taking an oath in the caretaker setup.^[6]