ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Over Rs 48 billion were spent on the war against terror during the last five years, the National Assembly was informed on Monday.
In a written reply, the federal interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan told the house that these expenditures include over Rs 23.8 billion in Islamabad, over Rs 3 billion in the federally administrated tribal areas (FATA) and over Rs 8.5 billion in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The interior minister said that besides over Rs 7 billion were spent by Rangers Punjab and over Rs 1.6 billion by Balochistan.
The parliamentary secretary for interior and narcotics Maryam Aurangzeb said in reply to a question that five resolutions were passed by the National Assembly from 2008 to 2013 to improve the overall situation of law and order.
Maryam Aurangzeb said that a number of steps have been taken for monitoring, controlling and improving law and order situation in the country.
The parliamentary secretary said that the Pakistan automated finger prints identification system has collected more than 1.9 million finger prints of suspects to date and a large number of unverified SIMs were blocked till September last year.
A total of 902 cases of missing persons have been disposed of between March 2011 and September 2014, she said.
To another question, she said that machine readable passport system has been installed at 23 Pakistan Missions abroad during the last five years while there is a plan to setup this system at 56 more foreign missions.
