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The federal cabinet, which is scheduled to meet on Tuesday (today) with Prime Minister Imran Khan in the chair, will discuss reforms in Federal Board of Revenue (FBR) and progress on National Agriculture Emergency Plan.

Besides political and regional issues, the cabinet will consider the following agenda: (i) approval of charter licence -class-II (domestic ) of M/s Aircraft Sales & Service (Pvt) for a further period of one year; (ii) renewal of charter licence class-II (domestic and international) of M/s Pakistan Aviators & Aviation(Pvt) Limited for a further period of one year with effective from January 1, 2019; (iii) renewal of the aerial work licence class-II (domestic and international) of VIP flights Government of Balochistan for further period of one year with effective from January 1, 2019; (iv) renewal of the aerial work licence class-II (domestic and international) of M/s Aga Khan Foundation for a further period of one year with effective from January 1, 2019; (v) renewal of the aerial work licence class-II (domestic and international) of VIP flight Government of Sindh for a further period of one year with effect from January 1 ,2019; (vi) re-issuance of regular public transport airline licence of M/s Afeef Zara Airways Limited; (vii) selection process of Chief Executives in key head public sector enterprises; (viii) abolishment of budgetary allocations under the head "entertainment and gifts"; (ix) appointment of Director General Debt (MP-1 scale), Debt Policy Coordination Office (DPCO) Finance Division; (x) nomination/ replacement of Directors on the Board of PBICL, POICL and SPIACCO; (xi) addition/ alteration in composition of the Federal Commission, constituted by the federal cabinet for review of the master plan of Islamabad; (xii) adoption of UNSCEs's (WP-29) Regulations; (xiii) restructuring of National Information Technology Board; (xiv) roadmap for introduction of E-governance in federal government; (xiv) repatriation of Gul Rehman, an officer of Pakistan Customs Service (PCS) presently posted as member technical (BS-21) in the Customs Appellate Tribunal, Quetta; (xv) shifting of Accountability Court Rawalpindi to Islamabad as Accountability Court-III Islamabad; (xvi) provision of information about three properties; (xvii) task force on technology-driven knowledge economy - inclusion of additional member; (xviii) constitution of task force on Evacuee Trust Board; (xix) on waiver on surcharge; (xx) reappointment of two members of the Governing Council of Pakistan Bureau of Statistics in terms of section 7 of the General Statistics ( re-organisation) Act, 2011; (xxi) reconstitution of the Board of Directors of Karachi Garment City Company (KGCC), Karachi, and; (xxii) develop a comprehensive communication strategy to highlight Clean and Green Initiative of the government.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2019


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I did graduation from the Government Murray College Sialkot and MSc in Psychology from the University of Punjab. I am in journalism since 1990. I worked in Daily Nawa-i-Waqt as sub editor and staff reporter in Daily Pakistan and Daily Din prior to joining Daily Business Recorder. I have been associated with this newspaper since 2000 as staff reporter. Energy Sector, Commerce / Trade and Industries are key areas of my interest. I have also the credit of exposing number of scams like Rental Power Plants (RPPs), LNG, sugar import, etc.

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