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Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif lays a floral wreath at the martyrs monument, at Naval Headquarters, in Islamabad.\u2014PPI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will head the Cabinet Committee on Exit Control List following its re-constitution on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The committee, comprising four members, will have secretarial support from the interior ministry. However, the interior minister will not be the part of the committee. Other three members will be the federal ministers for law, industries and production and human resources.<\/p>\n
In its meeting on Thursday, the body approved the inclusion of 24 new names on the no-fly list, while removing the name of PTI leader and senior lawyer Babar Awan.<\/p>\n
In another development, PM Shehbaz postponed an emergen\u00ad\u00adcy meeting of the federal capital, scheduled to be held today (Friday), for a day.<\/p>\n
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Says strong economy holds key to meeting all challenges; cabinet meeting rescheduled for tomorrow<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The meeting will now take place on Saturday.<\/p>\n
A senior cabinet member told Dawn<\/em> that the meeting was resch\u00adeduled for \u201cno specific reason\u201d.<\/p>\n
The huddle was supposed to take up a letter written to the Supreme Judicial Council by six judges of the Islamabad High Court (IHC), alleging \u201cinterference\u201d of intelligence agencies in their work.<\/p>\n
Power theft<\/strong><\/p>\n
Separately, chairing a meeting on prevention of electricity theft, PM Shehbaz directed the authorities concerned to take immediate disciplinary action against officers and award exemplary punishment to those abetting the crime that is causing the country billions in losses.<\/p>\n
According to the Prime Minister\u2019s Office (PMO), the PM sought a strategy for decreasing line losses and for upgradation of transmission lines.<\/p>\n
Terming generation companies \u201ca burden on the national exchequer\u201d, he ordered that work should be started on their privatisation at the earliest. A complete plan for the solarisation of tube wells in Balochistan should be presented, he added.<\/p>\n
During the meeting, it was decided to install smart meters on transformers under the public sector development programme. Feeder monitors would be deployed at the feeders that were seeing huge losses.<\/p>\n