Dubai, May 10 (PTI) Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammed al-Ahmad Al-Sabah has formed a new cabinet, dropping his oil minister.
The 16-member cabinet was sworn in yesterday by the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.
Former communications minister Mohammed al-Baseeri, a veteran Islamist politician, was given the oil portfolio in Sheikh Ahmad, a member of the Gulf state's ruling family.
The cabinet includes six new faces, including a new female minister who will lead the nation's Ministry of Commerce and Industry.
Besides the prime minister, the new cabinet includes four members of the Al-Sabah ruling family, one less than in the previous cabinet. They continue to hold the key posts of defence, interior and foreign affairs.
Since May 2006, Sheikh Nasser, a nephew of the ruler, resigned six times and parliament was dissolved three times over political disputes between the government and the opposition.