The federal cabinet has on Tuesday (today) approved the Ramadan ReliefPackage of Rs7.8 billion in order to facilitate the needy and poor acrossPakistan.
The federal cabinet meeting took place in Islamabad with Prime MinisterImran Khan in the chair and it was attended by Minister for Industries andProduction Hammad Azhar and Minister for Science and Technology FawadChaudhry.
Hammad Azhar, while addressing the media officials after the meeting, saidthat the sale of the Utility Stores Corporation is likely to touch 100billion rupees this year and it is supposed that USC will earn some profitas well.
“Cabinet has also approved to run two urea small plants of private sectorsfrom this month to meet the requirements of the farmers,” he added.
On the other hand, Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry said:“The cabinet has ordered a forensic audit of the loss-making entities andin the first phase, ten such entities will pass through this process, whichwill be completed by 30 June this year”.
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The technology minister further informed that the cabinet has approved toallow the new arms license policy about prohibited and non-prohibitedtrouble.
“The cabinet too approved the issuance of smart cards to Afghan refugees,having Proof of Registration (PoR) cards so that their life can be madeeasy and for a swift resolution of their problems,” added Fawad.
