The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat on Wednesday opposed the selling of properties abandoned by Bengalis. APP/File
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Cabinet Secretariat on Wednesday opposed the selling of properties abandoned by Bengalis and proposed that these properties be given to the people of erstwhile East Pakistan who chose to retain Pakistani nationality even after the 1971 fiasco.
The properties, now under the control of Abandoned Property Organisation (APO), were left behind by Bengalis who gave up their Pakistani nationality and moved to Bangladesh after its creation.
The committee has already recommended that these abandoned properties should be given to those people who opted to retain Pakistani nationality and abandoned their properties in what was then East Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD: The involvement of the army of 20 advisers and special assistants to the prime minister in cabinet committees — which they had presided over for a long time — has now been.
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January 10, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The involvement of the army of 20 advisers and special assistants to the prime minister in cabinet committees which they had presided over for a long time has now been reduced to attending those meetings only ‘by special invitation’.
Implementing an IHC judgment, the prime minister has reconstituted the cabinet committees by minimizing the role of the advisers and special assistants. As ruled by the Islamabad High Court (IHC), these figures can now neither head nor be members of any cabinet committee, and have no role, responsibility or duty to perform in the ministries and divisions to which they have been appointed. In any official record, no adviser or special assistant can be shown to be heading or presiding over a cabinet committee or a ministry or division. According to the IHC ruling, they can no longer have any say in making decisions and policies. Under an official notification, the Cabinet Committee on Institutional Reforms
Shafqat chairs meeting on institutional reforms
Islamabad
January 9, 2021
Islamabad : Federal Minister for Education, Professional Training, National Heritage and Culture Shafqat Mahmood presided over the meeting of Cabinet Committee on Institutional Reforms (CCIR).
The meeting was attended by Defence Minister Pervaiz Khattak, Law Minister Barrister Farogh Naseem, SAPM on Petroleum Nadeem Babar, Adviser to PM on Institutional Reforms and Austerity Dr. Ishrat Hussain.
The Cabinet Committee has approved the merger of National Housing Authority into Naya Pakistan Housing Auhority under Cabinet Division. For final approval the summary is sent to the federal cabinet.
To make the working of the government expeditious and unconstrained, the committee also discussed and deliberated the amendments in certain rules of Rules of Business in the meeting.
Housing, Naya Pakistan authorities to be merged
Cabinet body took up amendments to rules for speedy govt work
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January 09, 2021
The main challenge that Pakistan faces today is the extension of housing finance to the low and middle segments of the popu-lation. PHOTO: FILE
The Cabinet Committee on Institutional Reforms (CCIR) on Friday approved the merger of National Housing Authority and Naya Pakistan Housing Authority under the Cabinet Division. The committee has sent a summary to the federal cabinet for final approval.
During a meeting, presided over by Federal Minister for Education, Professional Training, National Heritage and Culture Shafqat Mahmood, committee members discussed and deliberated on amendments to certain rules of the Rules of Business to make government work expeditious and unconstrained.