Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif plans to reduce federal government size, abolish five ministries, and consolidate functions.

Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif aims to reduce federal government size, consolidating ministries & cutting bureaucratic resistance. He plans to abolish five ministries, including IT, Kashmir Affairs, Science & Tech, Industry & Production, and Health Services, to save billions of rupees. The PM's Institutional Reforms Cell is working on downsizing and reviewing the government's size, focusing on privatization, public-private partnerships, and identifying functions that are provincial.