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President Pervez Musharraf swears in 24 members of Pakistan cabinet, deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry gets a hero's welcome in his hometown. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf swore in 24 members of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's cabinet on Monday (March 31), six weeks after opposition parties won a general election. Eleven of the new ministers were from assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's party, which won the most seats in the election and nine were from its main coalition ally, the party of another former prime minister, Nawaz Sharif. Of the other four, one was an independent member of parliament and three were from two smaller parties joining the coalition. Some members of Sharif's party being sworn in wore black armbands in a show of protest against Musharraf, who they consider an unconstitutional president. As expected, Ishaq Dar, a member of Sharif's party, has been given the post of finance minister and Shah Mehmood Qureshi, a member of Bhutto's party, was named foreign minister, according to a government statement. Minister of defence is Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, a member of Bhutto's party. More ministers will be appointed later, party officials have said. In the western city of Quetta, Pakistan's deposed chief justice was welcomed by his hometown as he started a tour of the country to meet lawyers. Former Supreme Court chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and nine colleagues were freed from nearly five months of house arrest last week ...