The National Assembly on Tuesday approved 11 demands of grant worth Rs 98,337,578,000 for interior and narcotics divisions for the fiscal year 2016-17.
The demands of grant were presented to the House by Finance Minister and Senator Ishaq Dar. All the 393 cut motion presented by the opposition members were rejected by the House.
The House approved Rs 708,853,000 for interior division, Rs 7,118,226,000 for Islamabad, Rs 2,014,507,000 for passport organisation and Rs 43,257,722,000 civil armed forces.
The House also approved Rs 7,947,775,000 for frontier constabulary, Rs 1,750,731,000 for Pakistan Coast Guards, Rs 18,163,583,000 for Pakistan Rangers and Rs 3,346,972,000 for other expenditure of the interior division.
It also approved Rs 2,326,325,000 for Narcotics Control Division (NCD), Rs 11,484,459,000 for development expenditure of interior division and Rs 218,425,000 for development expenditure of NCD.
Minister of State for Interior Baligh Ur Rehman said the government policies are bearing fruit as the bomb blasts, incidents of target killings and kidnappings for ransom have considerably decreased.
He said the government devised the national internal security policy for the first time under which National Action Plan (NAP) and Zarb-e-Azab were launched to purge the country of terrorists and restore law and order situation.
He said the National Counter-Terrorism Authority (NACTA) is fully functional and the prime minister and interior minister are personally monitoring NAP.
The minister said for the first time, all unverified SIMs are re-verified through biometric system to control sabotaging activities.
He said under the counter-terrorism policy, hate speeches are curtailed besides stopping misuse of loudspeakers.
Rehman said that special force is also raised in the provinces for effective counter terrorism measures across the country.
Regarding the Karachi operation, the minister said that crime rate has significantly dropped in the mega city after the operation.
He said 80 per cent Madaris (religious seminaries) have been registered in Sindh, 75 per cent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 60 per cent in Balochistan and 100 per cent in Punjab and Islamabad Capital Territory.
He said visible reduction is witnessed in incidents of robbery and car thefts after operationalisation of Islamabad Safe City Project.
The minister said all the institutions, including National Database Registration Authority, Passport Office and Federal Investigation Agency are doing well and recruitments are being made purely on merit.
