• PM wants legislation to resolve missing persons’ issue
• Enforcement of laws to check sexual violence ordered
• Minister says overseas Pakistanis to vote in next elections
ISLAMABAD: The cabinet on Wednesday gave a relief of Rs21 billion to the federal secretariat employees by approving a 25 per cent increase in their salaries, urging provinces to end wage disparity between their civil servants and those of the Centre.
The cabinet meeting, which was presided over by Prime Minister Imran Khan, also expressed concern over the longstanding issue of missing persons and directed the authorities concerned to make prompt legislation in the parliament to ensure that there was no missing person in the present government.
PTI govt giving serious consideration to missing persons issue, says Sheikh Rasheed
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Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed says govt to utilise all resources to recover missing persons
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Shehryar Khan Afridi asks world to break silence on Kashmir
Islamabad
February 1, 2021
Islamabad : Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir Shehryar Khan Afridi Sunday urged the world community to break its silence and help Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) as it was brewing with anger and it may erupt anytime due to uninterrupted and prolonged atrocities being committed on the Kashmiris by fascist Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
In an exclusive interview with this agency in regard to the Kashmir Solidarity Day to be observed on February 5, Shehryar Afridi categorically pointed out that the perpetual Indian state oppression had played havoc with the lives of Kashmiris in IIOJK.