Interim Govt Working As Per Constitutional Mandate: Ali Zafar
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published July 21, 2018 | 11:44 PM
Caretaker Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting, National Heritage Syed Ali Zafar Saturday said the interim government was working as per its constitutional mandate and taking decisions of urgent nature only for the sake of the country.
LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 21st Jul, 2018 ) :Caretaker Federal Minister for Information, Broadcasting, National Heritage Syed Ali Zafar Saturday said the interim government was working as per its constitutional mandate and taking decisions of urgent nature only for the sake of the country.
He was addressing the 'Media Conference On Election-2018 and Freedom of Expression' organized by the Unified Media Club of Pakistan (UMCP) here at Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Renowned journalists Mujeebur Rehman Shami, Sajjad Mir and Salman Ghani, Lahore Press Club President Azam Chaudhry, UMCP President Muhammad Hassan and General Secretary Haroon Akram Gill also spoke on the occasion.
Responding to reporters' queries, the minister said the caretaker government was not going to make any long-term policy or agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), binding the upcoming elected government to adhere to it.
Any discussion with the IMF would be non-binding as the interim government did not have the mandate to make long-term agreements with international donors, he added.
The federal government, however, could take urgent decisions, which were indispensable to protect the country from any sort of crisis, he said, adding the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) had included Pakistan in the gray list in February 2018 year, with a warning to black list it if the FATF's objections were not removed till June.
Pakistan, he said, had removed most of the objections till June and the caretaker government took an urgent decision to give only a political commitment to the FATF regarding removal of the remaining ones, including legislation to curb terror financing, control money laundering and corruption. The government made that commitment just to save the country from being blacklisted, he maintained.
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