{"id":28054,"date":"2017-11-01T00:06:22","date_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28054"},"modified":"2017-11-01T00:06:22","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T19:06:22","slug":"pm-abbasi-calls-for-comprehensive-arms-licenses-issuance-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=28054","title":{"rendered":"PM Abbasi calls for comprehensive arms licenses issuance policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Islamabad, Oct. 31 (TNS):<\/strong> Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has directed the Interior Ministry to work out a comprehensive policy on issuance of arms licenses so as to make the process more convenient and applicant friendly.<\/p>\n<p>He issued the direction during a briefing on automatic arms licenses held under his chairmanship in Islamabad on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister directed the Ministry of Interior to bring the issue of regulation of arms licenses for the automatic weapons before the next meeting of the Federal Cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister directed that the arms licenses should be linked with CNIC database of NADRA.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary Interior briefed the Prime Minister about the overall situation regarding the number of arms licenses issued by the federal as well as the provincial governments.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was informed that 19,143 prohibited bore arms licenses were issued during the period 2010-2012. He said during the interim period of 2013, a total of 25,789 licenses were issued for the prohibited bore weapons.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was informed that a deadline of 30th December this year has been set for re-validation of all licenses after which all non-computerized licenses issued by the Interior Ministry are liable to be cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad, Oct. 31 (TNS): Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi has directed the Interior Ministry to work out a comprehensive policy on issuance of arms licenses so as to make the process more convenient and applicant friendly. He issued the direction during a briefing on automatic arms licenses held under his chairmanship in Islamabad on Tuesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[118,589],"class_list":["post-28054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28055,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28054\/revisions\/28055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}