ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz has asserted that the laws proposed against rape incidents would be deterrent.
According to details, the federal cabinet approved in principle the Anti-rape (investigation and trial) Ordinance and Pakistan Penal Code (Amendment) Ordinance 2020.
Giving detailed about decisions taken by the federal cabinet with Prime Minister Imran Khan in the chair, Shibli Faraz informed that the Prime Minister has directed the Law Ministry to finalize provisions of the proposed Ordinance.
The Minister further informed that acts of gang-rape have also been inserted in the proposed law in which harsh punishments, including death penalty, have been suggested to give exemplary sentences to the offenders of rape.
Shibli Faraz informed that the federal cabinet also approved in principle the establishment of a Special Technology Zones Authority to promote technology in the country.
“Special technology zones will be set up initially in Peshawar, Islamabad, Lahore and Haripur,” he said, adding that the Cabinet also approved the establishment of these zones in Karachi and Quetta.
The Economic Affairs Division informed the Cabinet that at present the repayment of 1.7 billion dollars to 2 billion dollars of loans taken during the period of May to December this year has been extended by the G-20 countries.
On the occasion, Minister of Industries and Production Hammad Azhar has asserted that a decline of 10 to 12 rupees per kilogramme has been witnessed in last ten days after government imported around 1,25,000 tons of sugar.
Hammad Azahar informed that the imported sugar was being provided at the rate of around 81 rupees per kilogramme at facilitation centers in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
