The federal cabinet, which met here with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the chair, accepted the resignation of the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) Chairman Lt-Gen Muzammil Hussain. It gave the additional charge of the Wapda chairman to the Wapda member finance till the new chairman was appointed.
During the meeting, the ministers were informed that electricity load-shedding had been brought to nil.
Briefing reporters about the decisions taken by the cabinet, Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb said the prime minister directed the introduction of an incentivized agricultural policy that would enable the country to curtail wheat import.
Energy Minister Khurram Dastagir informed the cabinet that no load shedding was taking place in any part of the country. He added that requests had been sent to the cabinet for the provision of additional resources to end load-shedding.