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PM Imran resurrects bill on missing persons
Imran tells cabinet there’s no justification for such incidents after drastic fall in acts of terrorism
Prime Minister Imran Khan. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
ISLAMABAD:
Prime Minister Imran Khan directed on Wednesday for expediting the process of bringing effective legislation in parliament regarding enforced disappearances as the families of the missing persons pray and search for their loved-ones endlessly in the absence of a proper mechanism.
In the post-cabinet press briefing, Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Shibli Faraz said that the prime minister has given clear instructions to activate a bill reportedly pending before the parliament for a couple of years, and devise a mechanism for resolving the issue.
Cabinet approves 25 pc increase in salaries of federal govt employees
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Cabinet approves 25 pc increase in salaries of federal govt employees
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The Federal Cabinet has approved a 25 percent increase in the salaries of the employees of the Federal Government including complete restoration of all economic activities from March 1.
According to details, federal cabinet meeting was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad, the meeting was briefed on the Coronavirus situation in the country.
The cabinet was informed that the number and spread of coronavirus cases in the country are declining. Corona vaccine is being administered to frontline workers. So far, about 50,000 frontline workers have been vaccinated and the process is being accelerated.
Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Ransford Gyampo Professor Ransford Gyampo, a political science lecturer at the University of Ghana has accused the Electoral Commission of abandoning a core duty of regulating the activities of political parties.
Professor Gyampo said on Net2 TV that political parties have a field day breaching the rules that govern their operations because the Electoral Commission has over the years shown little or no interest in regulating their activities.
He decried that successive Electoral Commission administrations have limited their duties to organizing elections and completely neglected their power to control the actions of political parties.
Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Ransford Gyampo In the face of countless allegations of vote-rigging and fraud against the Electoral Commission by the National Democratic Congress and its flagbearer, John Dramani, a senior lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo has praised the Electoral Commission for making the 2020 elections transparent.
Professor Gyampo believes the recently held election was devoid of opaqueness and that the Electoral Commission was open and honest with all parties involved in the electoral process.
Gyampo admitted on Net2 TV that as a matter of principle he was against the compilation of a new voters’ register but he was impressed with how the Electoral Commission went about the exercise amid the Covid-19 pandemic.