The federal cabinet meeting, scheduled to be held on Friday (tomorrow) would be given a presentation on the consumer price index in the country with an objective to discuss how it could check the rising prices of essential commodities across country. A source told Pakistan Today that the government had rescheduled the federal cabinet meeting for Friday due to the emergency meeting of the Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC) held on Wednesday to discuss the country’s security situation in the wake of the terrorist attack on the PNS Mehran base.
The cabinet meeting would take up nine other items on the agenda list three about Interior Division; two about Cabinet Division, two about Finance Division and one each about Economic Affairs Division, Ports and Shipping and Board and Investment. The cabinet would also review the status of implementation of the cabinet decisions while the confirmation of the decisions taken by Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the cabinet at its meeting held on May 7 would also be discussed, the source added.
“The cabinet would discuss a proposal to approve, in principle, to start negotiations on the agreement for establishment of a joint commission between Pakistan and South Africa; Approval, in principle, to start negotiations on an agreement on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters between the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan,” said the source.
