Raja Pervaiz Ashraf took oath as the country's new Prime Minister at a ceremony held at the Aiwan-e-Sadr Friday night.

President Asif Ali Zardari administered the oath of office to the newly elected Prime Minister of the country.

The President , later , also administered oath to a 38-members federal cabinet comprising 27 federal ministers and 11 ministers of states here at Aiwan-e-Sadr.

The oath taking ceremony was attended by newly elected Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, Chairman Senate, Nayer Hussain Bokhari, Speaker National Assembly, Dr. Fehmida Mirza, former Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, Governor Punjab Sardar Latif Khan Khosa, Governor Khyber Pakhtoonkwa Barrister Masood Kausar,Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa Amir Haider Khan Hoti, President of AJK, Sardar Muhammad Yaqub Khan, Prime Minister of AJK Abdul Majeed Chaudhry, Chief Minister Gilgit Baltistan Mehdi Shah,, Parliamentarians, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, Services Chiefs, members of diplomatic community and senior government officials.

Those who took oath as Federal Minister included, Makhdoom Amin Faheem, Dr.Abdul Hafeez Shaikh, Nazar Muhammad Gondal,Haji Khuda Buksh Rajar, Dr. Mohammad Farooq Sattar, Senator Maula Buksh Chandio, Mian Mohammad Manzoor Wattoo, Mir Changez Khan Jamali, Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah, Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, Senator Babar Khan Ghori, Haji Ghulam Ahmed Bilour, Mir Israrullah Zehri, Senator Farooq H.Naek, Dr.Arbab Alamgir Khan, Qamar Zaman Kaira, Ch. Pervaiz Ellahi (senior minister), Makhdoom Shahabuddin, Syed Naveed Qamar, Farzana Raja, Eng.Sahukat Ullah, Ch.Ahmed Mukhtar, Rana Mohammad Farooq Saeed Khan, Mrs Sameena Khalid Gurki, Dr.Firdous Ashiq Awan, Hina Rabbani Khar and Sardar Alhaj Muhammad Omar Gorgeig.

Those who took oath as Minister of State included, Sardar Saleem Haider Khan, Muazzam Ali Jatoi, Malik Azmat Khan, Syed Samsam Ali Bukhari, Tasneem Ahmed Qureshi, Dr.Nadeem Ahsan,Nawabzada Malik Amaad Khan, Abbas Khan Afridi, Ch.Imtiaz Safdar Warraich, Dost Mohammad Mazari and Ms. Raheela Baloch.