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President Alvi signs 31 bills passed in joint parliament session

President Dr Arif Alvi has signed Wednesday 31 bills passed during the joint parliament session on November 17. The electoral reform and overseas voters bills are yet to be signed.

The president signed the following legislation:

• The Privatization Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Port Qasim Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Islamabad Capital Territory Prohibition of Corporal Punishment Bill, 2021
• The International Court of Justice (Review and Re-Consideration) Bill, 2021
• The SBP Banking Services Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Corporate Restructuring Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• COVID-19 (Prevention of Hoarding) Bill, 2021
• The Anti-Rape (Investigation and Trial) Bill, 2021
• The Islamabad Capital Territory Charities Registration, Regulation and Facilitation Bill, 2021
• The Islamabad Rent Restriction (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Prevention of Corruption (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Federal Public Service Commission (Validation of Rules), Bill, 2021
• The Loans for Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Purposes Amendment Bill, 2021
• The National Vocational and Technical Training Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Islamabad Capital Territory Food Safety Bill, 2021
• The Emigration (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Pakistan Academy of Letters (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Gwadar Port Authority (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Maritime Security Agency (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Pakistan National Shipping Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Financial Institutions (Secured Transactions) (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The University of Islamabad Bill, 2021
• The Al-Karam International Institute Bill, 2021
• The National College of Arts Institute Bill, 2021
• The Hyderabad Institute for Technology and Management Sciences Bill, 2021
• Regulation of Generation, Transmission and Distribution of Electric Power (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Provincial Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Unani, Ayurvedic and Homeopathic Practitioners (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Muslim Family Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2021
• The Muslim Family Laws (Second Amendment) Bill, 2021

The signed bills include the Protection of Journalists and Media Professionals Bill to safeguard the rights of working journalists. “I am happy to sign this historic bill,” the president said.

 

 

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The bill focuses on protecting the lives of journalists, saving them from harassment and torture, and ensuring their welfare by giving facilities of life and health insurance.

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Saudi Arabia reports first Omicron case in Gulf

Saudi Arabia has recorded the Gulf’s first confirmed case of the Omicron variant of the coronavirus in a citizen returning from North Africa, a health ministry official said Wednesday.

The strain, which was first announced by South Africa but has since been discovered to have been present earlier in Europe, has prompted governments around the globe to reimpose travel restrictions, despite warnings from the World Health Organization this could do more harm than good.

“One case of the Omicron variant has been detected in the kingdom — it was a citizen coming from a North African country,” the ministry official told the state SPA news agency.

“He has been put in isolation, as have his contacts, and the necessary health measures have been taken.”

Saudi Arabia last week halted flights from seven southern African countries, mirroring similar moves by other government, but travel links with North Africa have remained unaffected. 

The kingdom had been lifting some of the remaining restrictions it imposed early in the pandemic, allowing worshippers at the Muslim holy places to resume praying shoulder to shoulder from October.

Since the pandemic started, Saudi Arabia has recorded 549,000 cases of Covid-19, 8,836 of them fatal.

 

 

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More than 47 million doses of Covid vaccine have been administered in the kingdom, which has a population of nearly 35 million.

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