PM Imran Khan hopes to set up a “threat assessment committee” to review the agreement privileges: Fawad Chaudhry

Information and Broadcasting Minister Fawad Chowdhury said on Tuesday that Prime Minister Imran Khan has requested the establishment of a “threat assessment committee” to decide whether to provide security guarantees to government ministers and other important figures.

The Minister of Information, speaking at a post-cabinet press conference in Islamabad, said that “compared to government representatives, more funds are used for the security of the judiciary”.

Chowdhury said that a detailed report on courtesy provided to the people was submitted to the cabinet, which showed that a total of 700 million rupees was spent on the safety of the president, prime minister, cabinet members, ministers, governors, chief ministers and other senior officials. detail. Ranking of government officials.

The minister said that 25.29 crore was used for Punjab security details, while 9.98 crore was used for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In terms of security arrangements for the judiciary, three provinces except Balochistan have spent 1.4 billion rupees.

AJK election

In the election of Azad Jammu and Kashmir on July 25, he said that the prime minister belonged to PML-N, and the party also appointed an election commissioner. “how come [they claim] Manipulation happened? “

“The leaders of PML-N are sitting at a press conference in the office of the Prime Minister of AJK to speak; they should accept their humiliating defeat,” the information minister said.

He said that Prime Minister Imran Khan has directed an immediate investigation into the deaths of two PTI workers during the July 25 election and ordered the authorities to arrest the criminals as soon as possible.

The Cabinet also prayed for the four soldiers who died in the performance of their duties during the election-after a car of the military’s rapid reaction force (QRF) fell into a canyon in Rasva near the Nielham Valley-the minister said.

The Minister of Information said that members of the Federal Cabinet congratulated Prime Minister Imran Khan on his victory in the Kashmir election.

The Prime Minister thanked the Federal Ministers Ali Amin Gandapur and Murad Said and the Chairman of the Kashmir Committee Sheril Khan Afridi for their successful campaign at AJK.

Cybersecurity policy

The minister stated that the Federal Cabinet has approved the 2021 National Cyber ​​Security Policy for data protection and cybercrime prevention. Earlier news revealed that India has used NSO Group’s spyware to target PM Imran Khan’s number.

Favard said that the introduction of this policy is to take into account the increasing importance of the network system.

He said that the federal government has paid off all the debts owed by private TV channels, and lamented that despite the payments received, some media outlets did not pay their employees salaries.

The Federal Cabinet also approved digital advertising in Pakistan for the first time. “First of all, the News and Information Department will shift to digitalization and become paperless.”

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