ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet on Tuesday approved the formulation of a separate judicial system for overseas Pakistanis, this was announced by Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry.
While briefing media about decisions taken in the federal cabinet, which met in Islamabad with Prime Minister Imran Khan in the chair, Fawad Chaudhry said the government had decided to set up a separate judicial system for Pakistani expats to ensure summary trials.
Under this system, summary trials would be held for the cases of overseas Pakistanis,” he said and added that a similar judicial system will also be established in other provinces where PTI is in power including Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.On FBR tax collection, Fawad Chaudhry said the tax collection body could not recover over Rs3 trillion revenue due to several stay orders.
“Cabinet has tasked law ministry to take up this matter with the CJP and the chief justices of high courts,” Fawad said and expressed hope that the top court will resolve this matter soon.
August ended with Sharif and his administration tending their resignations three days ahead of expected. The elections were postponed past their initial October date when he turned over power to a caretaker government. It was anticipated that Sharif would keep his parliamentary seat in the next elections; nonetheless, he wanted his brother, Nawaz Sharif, to take back the prime ministership.
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