Islamabad (October 31, 2017): The Senate was informed that National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA) is being provided budget as per its requirements to deal with the security related challenges.
This was stated by Minister of State for Interior Talal Chaudhry while speaking during the question hour in Senate on Tuesday evening.
He said NACTA’s budget has not been cut but increased manifold over the last few years. He said that the budget estimate of 1528.72 million rupees was submitted to the Finance Division for the current financial year in respect of NACTA. An amount of 143.019 million rupees has already been allocated while the remaining 1385.70 million rupees will be released as and when demanded by the counter terrorism authority.
The Minister of State informed the House that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and Gilgit Baltistan have cancelled the registration of some seminaries for various reasons including their involvement in anti-statement activities.
Minister for Railways Khawaja Saad Rafique told the House that the earning of Pakistan Railways has increased by 18 billion rupees to over 40 billion rupees over the last few years.
He said the upgradation of mainline-1 and construction of dry port and cargo handling facility have been included as early harvest projects under China Economic Pakistan Corridor.
Saad Rafique said preparatory work on these projects has been initiated on fast track basis. He said upgradation ML-2 and ML-3 and establishing new lines for linking Gwadar and Khunjerab have also been planned.
The Railways Minister said the project for computerization of Railways land record is near completion which will ensure to safeguard the Railway land through a computerized monitoring system.
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