Special Advisor to the Prime Minister on Parliamentary Affairs Babar Awan has claimed that the government will get the mini-budget passed from Parliament on Thursday. The opposition parties always claim that they are in contact with 25 to 30 government members, yet every time there is a vote in the assembly the government wins, Awan told SAMAA TV s Abbas Shabir. He added that the opposition leaders have been conspiring against and suggesting unconstitutional manoeuvres to overthrow the government.
The federal cabinet has approved the supplementary finance bill (mini-budget) 2021 paving the way for increase in the General Sales Tax (GST) on 150 items including computers and smartphones. The mini-budget and the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) Autonomy bills will be tabled in the National Assembly later in the day. The NA session has been scheduled to begin at 4pm Thursday. The opposition parties have vowed to block both bills. Prime Minister Imran Khan chaired the cabinet meeting which approved the supplementary finance bill. Some of the coalition partners had earlier expressed reservations over the bill. Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin briefed the cabinet members about.
The federal cabinet has approved the first National Security Policy of the country and it is the first-ever policy that has been centered around the common man, Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry said on Tuesday after the cabinet meeting. The cabinet has also approved the extradition of three Pakistani nationals to Italy and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). It has made several other key decisions, giving node for a Joint Investigation Team (JIT) to probe the murder of Nazim Jokhio in Karachi and making several appointments. Fawad Chaudhry briefed the journalists about the cabinet meeting. Responding to a question he said if Nawaz Sharif does not return to the country, the.
Federal Ombudsperson for Protection against Harassment of Women at the Workplaces Kashmala Tariq has said that her office has taken up harassment cases more seriously and bank CEOs, CFOs, heads of major semi-government and private organizations, and 22-grade bureaucrats were made to resign from their positions over harassment charges. In an interview with SAMAA TV s Abbas Shabir, Kashmala revealed that she has faced sexual harassment even after becoming the federal ombudsperson. Kashmala Tariq said after she took office in 2018, reported harassment cases increased seven-folds. She said harassment cases were reported from both public and private sector workplaces and.
The Punjab government has released hundreds of activists of the proscribed Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) from jails as a part of a deal with the banned outfit. The development comes as the federal cabinet meets to discuss the agreement. Prime Minister Imran Khan has also called a meeting of his coalition partners later in the day to seek their support on the issue. A day before the cabinet meeting, Khan met with key PTI leaders and expressed regret over the lack of unity among the PTI over the issue of TLP protests, SAMAA TV reported. The government-TLP agreement, reached on Sunday, is being kept under wraps. Maulana Bashir Farooqi, who was part of the talks, has indicated tha.