Islamabad: Federal cabinet meeting Tuesday approved amendment in the Schedule of FIA Act, 1974, the amendment aims at bringing the offences of blasphemy and pornography in the ambit of Prevention of Electronic Crime Act, 2016.
Prime Minister (PM) Shahid Khaqan Abbasi chaired a meeting of the federal cabinet at Prime Minister House.
The meeting also approved signing revised Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Ministry of Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development and Ministry of Employment & Labor of the Republic of Korea on exchange of workers under Employment Permit System.
Hajj Policy and Plan, 2018 was also presented before the Federal Cabinet. While deciding not to increase Hajj dues this year under the Government Hajj Scheme, the Federal Cabinet approved the Policy, in principal, with certain amendments.
The meeting also approved the directives issued to PEMRA to off-air and later on-air transmission of Private TV Channels on 25 Nov 2017 and 26 Nov 2017 during Faizabad fiasco terming the directives as ‘ex-post facto’.
Amendment in the guidelines of Prime Minister’s Global SDGs Achievement Programme was also approved by the said meeting.
The meeting also approved formation of National Implementation Committee (NIC) on FATA Reforms.
The Federal Cabinet also approved amendments in Sales Tax Special Procedure Rules 2007 to provide for allowing exploration and production companies serving as operators in a petroleum concession area to transfer proportionate input tax to other working interest owners and exclusion from extra tax chargeable under Rule-58T of Sales Tax Special Procedure Rules 2007 on supply of lubricants to and by lubricating oil marketing companies registered with OGRA to registered manufacturers for in-house consumption.
