Cabinet calls for enacting stringent laws against use of filthy language & hate speech on social media: Fawad
Says cabinet approves 15% increase in salaries of civil armed forces
The Minister said country’s first ever Digital Cloud Policy also got cabinet’s nod.
ISLAMABAD ( Web News )
The Federal Cabinet has approved formulation of a separate judicial system for Overseas Pakistanis to ensure summary trial.
This was stated by Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhry Fawad Hussain, while briefing media in Islamabad on Tuesday, about the decisions taken in Tuesday’s meeting of the federal cabinet which met in the federal capital with Prime Minister Imran Khan in the chair.
He said these laws will be enacted in view of Prime Minister Imran Khan’s vision to facilitate overseas Pakistanis, who are the precious asset of the country. He said similar judicial system will also be established in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab, where PTI is in power.
Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said the cabinet also expressed concern over massive stay orders due to which Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) is unable to collect revenue of over 3,000 billon rupees. He said the Law Ministry has been asked to take up this matter with the Chief Justice of Supreme Court and the chief justices of high courts. He said it has been recommended that there should be a separate forum to resolve such policy issues. He said the cabinet hoped that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court will present a serious point of view of the judiciary over this matter.
Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said the cabinet called for enacting stringent laws against use of filthy language and hate speech on social media.
The Minister said country’s first ever Digital Cloud Policy also got cabinet’s nod. Besides, export of 34,500 metric tons of Mung beans to Afghanistan under World Food Programme. He said the cabinet approved reducing prices of Remdesivir injection from 3967 to 2308 rupees for the treatment of Covid-19 patients. He said it is a matter of great satisfaction that Pakistan has now become a major exporter of Covid related material, including Remdesivir injection.
Chaudhry Fawad Hussain said the cabinet approved 15 percent increase in the salaries of civil armed forces and a disparity allowance for the employees of the Federal Government from scale one to 19. He said the cabinet also congratulated the Prime Minister for PTI’s victory in local bodies’ elections in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The federal minister reiterated “there is no doubt that the price of petroleum products will increase further.” However, he added that the decision regarding the price of petrol does not depend on the cabinet as it is dependent on other factors.
Speaking about the provincial vaccine dilemma, Fawad said that the Sindh chief minister had asked the federal government to import vaccines for them. “Sindh government has not even spent a single dollar on vaccines and all vaccines were provided by the federal government,” he said, adding that despite that, the number of people vaccinated in Karachi is comparatively very less.
He further added that $725 million have been received from international institutions for the purchase of vaccines, stating that vaccines worth $2.5 billion have already been administered to people.
He said that the cabinet meeting gave its nod to the country’s first-ever digital cloud policy.