Almotamar.net - In its meeting on Tuesday the cabinet has approved a draft law on combating terror after it was reviewed by a specialised ministerial committee chaired by Deputy Premier, the Minister of Interior.

The draft law aims at strengthening legal measures regarding terrorist crimes and determining the decided punishments on them and that reach death sentence specifically against the one proved to be leading a gang for kidnapping or highway robbery or plundering public or private property by force including the accomplice in any of those crimes.

The third article of the draft law defined the terrorist acts in the concept of this law as acts of highway robbery, plundering public and private property, destruction of public roads and bridges, dams, high tension electric lines and oil and gas pipelines and other than that which has vital importance for the national economy or constitutes terror for the life of the citizens and their properties directly or indirectly.