Summary The meeting will also discuss Karachi operation and dialogue process with Taliban.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya news) - Suffering a serious blow to the dialogue process after the Upper Dir incident, the federal cabinet would meet today (Friday).
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will chair the cabinet meeting. The meeting will discuss a fifteen-point agenda. The meeting will likely to approve anti-terrorism bill, 2013 while additional funds for Neelam-Jhelum power transmission line project will also be approved.
The federal cabinet will also discuss Karachi operation, law and order situation in country, dialogue process with Taliban, and absence of ministers from the national assembly.
According to sources the main agenda would be to review the policy of dialogue process with the Taliban after the Upper Dir incident in which Maj. Gen Sanaullah Niazi was martyred.
The dialogue process suffered a major setback due to the incident, which was admitted by Interior Minister Ch Nisar while speaking on the floor of the lower house.
Sources said Interior Minister would also brief the cabinet on the Karachi operation and would also raise the issue of absence of ministers from the session.
It is expected that PM Nawaz Sharif would take the cabinet members into confidence regarding his trip to Turkey and his trip to US during which he would not only address the UNGA session but would also meet his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh among other world leaders.
