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According to a media source, Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif is scheduled to create a new Cabinet on Monday following a week of negotiations on how to accommodate all coalition members.

Following Imran Khan's resignation by a no-confidence vote, Pakistan's Parliament chose Mr Sharif, the president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), as the country's new prime minister last week.

The new Cabinet, however, was unable to be constituted because Shehbaz Sharif desired to include all of his allies in the administration.

"Members of the federal Cabinet will be sworn in tomorrow (Monday)," Marriyum Aurangzeb, who is expected to become information minister, told the Dawn daily on Sunday.

The newspaper said that there was ambiguity about whether Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) would join the Cabinet or abstain due to a "disagreement" over the division of ministries, but that it would remain a government supporter.

According to Marriyum Aurangzeb, the PML-N will receive 14 ministries, while the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) will receive 11.

She asserted that all affiliated parties, including the JUI-F and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, were being accommodated in the Cabinet (MQM).

Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met with delegates from the Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) and the Balochistan National Party (BNP) on Sunday to consult the ruling coalition parties (BNP).

As the "guarantor" in the ruling coalition, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari swore to keep his promises to coalition parties on the distribution of ministries.

On Sunday, Marriyum Aurangzeb stated, a lengthy meeting of the alliance's joint committee on creating the Cabinet took place, in which parties' objections over the distribution of ministries and key positions were resolved.

She predicted that the PML-N would win the defence, finance, interior, law and justice, railroads, information, energy, planning, and communication ministries, among others.

Earlier, PML-N leader Rana Sanaullah said that the structure of the new Cabinet had been finalised by a joint committee of the associated parties in the government, with practically all parties represented.

According to Geo News, he stated that the ministry of foreign affairs will most likely be handed over to the PPP, with the party's chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari debating who will lead the ministry.

"I can't say whether Bilawal Bhutto will join Shahbaz Sharif's cabinet," he said, according to the news channel.

Sanaullah further stated that the PML-N will lead the ministries of finance, planning and development, energy, and defence.

"MQM and PPP will get the ministries of maritime affairs and overseas Pakistanis and human resource development, respectively," he said.

According to a government source, JUI-F leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman would not be joining the federal Cabinet. It was also learned that the JUI-F had wanted the presidency and expressed discontent with the Awami National Party (ANP) and independent MNA Mohsin Dawar both receiving one ministry.

Fazlur Rehman expressed his displeasure to Asif Ali Zardari, asking why two ministries were handed to parties or individuals who ran against the JUI-F in elections.

Mr Zardari, on the other hand, made it plain that as a "guarantor" in the alliance created against Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government, he could not back out of his pledges to the allied parties.

Mr. Zardari stated that his party would not accept ministries until all partner parties were included.

Meanwhile, a PPP source claimed that Prime Minister Sharif has given Mr Zardari complete discretion to award ministries to any party in proportion to its fair share.

He claimed that allocating ministries and desirable jobs among the new government's associated parties was a difficult assignment because each party was vying for profitable and vital roles.

Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Marriyum Aurangzeb, Khawaja Asif, Miftah Ismail, Zahid Hamid, Ahsan Iqbal, Rana Sanaullah, Rana Tanvir, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, Khawaja Saad Rafique, Hina Rabbani Khar, and Shazia Marri are among the prospective ministers in the new cabinet.