ISLAMABAD, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari will administer the oath to the new ministers at a ceremony on Wednesday, state media reported Tuesday.

    Reports said the oath-taking ceremony is to be held in the presidential house and 20 new ministers are likely to be sworn in months after the formation of the new Pakistani government in March.

    The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and Pakistan Mulim League-Nawaz (PML-N), led by former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, won the Feb. 18 general elections and formed a coalition government in March, which constituted first batch of federal ministers.

    But Sharif's party withdrew its nine ministers from the cabinet in May and then quit the coalition in August over the row of judiciary issue.