The federal government on Friday gave special powers to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to take legal action against those stealing electricity. The move was initiated in accordance with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s directives and that Section 39A of the Electricity Act has been added to FIA’s list of offences as a result. Provincial task forces have been set up to keep a check on electricity theft. They have been constituted in all four FIA zonal offices in Sindh, Punjab, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. The deputy director FIA Immigration Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore was nominated as the head of the provincial task force, while acting deputy director FIA Anti-Trafficking Unit Lahore was appointed as a senior member.
