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Cabinet okays Draft Counter Insurgency Regulations
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Cabinet on Wednesday approved the Draft Counter Insurgency (In Aid of Civil Power) Regulations 2011 for Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the Provincially Administered Tribal Areas (PATA) in terms of Article 247 (5) and Article 247 (4) respectively.The Draft Regulations would provide legal cover to actions against the terrorists. It was observed that it was of paramount importance for the State to curb terrorist activities and bring the terrorists to justice.
The Federal Cabinet, which met here with Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani in chair, accorded the approval after examining and deliberating in detail on the Draft Regulations.
The Cabinet also discussed and approved the Draft Constitutional Amendment Bill 2011 which has been prepared in accordance with the directions of the Supreme Court after the formation of Election Commission and appointment of Members of the Commission.
The Cabinet decided to reconsider and revisit the proposal on commercial import of non-prohibited bore Arms and Ammunition in consultation with all the stakeholders. The proposal, it was mentioned should be put up before the Cabinet accordingly.
The Cabinet approved the Delimitation of Constituencies(Amendment) Bill, 2011.
The Cabinet ratified the Framework Economic Cooperation Agreement signed between the Government of Pakistan and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC).
The Cabinet approved in principle for initiating negotiations on the draft Agreement on Cooperation against illicit Trafficking in Narcotics Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and their Chemical Precursors between Government of Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
The Cabinet approved the initiation of Negotiations to Conclude Agreement between Pakistan and Tanzania for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income.
The Cabinet reviewed the implementation status of its decisions regarding Ministries of Industries, Information Technology and Telecom Division.
The Cabinet was informed that 95% decisions of the Ministry of Industries were implemented, while 80% decisions of the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecom Division were implemented.
The Cabinet was apprised that the pending decisions require further consultation among stakeholders as well as negotiations with foreign countries in some cases.
The Prime Minister directed for early implementation of the decisions after requisite consultations with stakeholders at the earliest.
The acting Secretary Finance while briefing the Cabinet on Consumer Price Index in the country informed it that generally the prices of food items remained stagnant while the prices of non-food items had shown some increase.
The inflation, he said is likely to show downward trend in the coming months. Despite lower growth in the previous financial year (2010-11), the inflation rate of Pakistan was almost near the inflation rates in all the regional countries which had high growth rate during the same period.
It was also stated that while international prices of sugar, wheat, rice, tea, cotton and oil had gone up at much higher rate, the increase of prices of these communities rose at lesser rate in comparison.
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