{"id":18446,"date":"2023-08-06T20:23:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T15:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=18446"},"modified":"2023-08-06T20:23:55","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T15:23:55","slug":"govt-withdraws-prevention-of-violent-extremism-bill-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/govt-withdraws-prevention-of-violent-extremism-bill-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt withdraws prevention of violent extremism bill 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The federal government has withdrawn the Prevention of violent extremism bill 2023.<\/p>\n<p>As per details, the bill presented in the senate was not only opposed by the opposition but also by the PDM and PML-N senators.<\/p>\n<p>The senate had dropped the government\u2019s bill for the prevention of violent extremism to bar \u201cany extremist or violent\u201d organization from contesting elections.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was strongly opposed by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf senators. The government also faced opposition from its coalition parties, including JUI (F), the Balochistan National Party and threatened to walk out if the bill is passed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re probably cutting your hands today,\u201d said JUI-F Senator Kamran Murtaza\u06d4 At least coalition parties should have been taken into confidence before such type of legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the Law Minister presented a motion to withdraw the Violent Extremism Bill and it was passed with a clear majority.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/president-alvi-approves-elections-second-amendment-bill-2023.html\">President Alvi approves elections second amendment bill 2023<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Law Minister Azam Nazir Tarar said that the Prevention of violent extremism bill was drafted by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government. The law minister revealed that Prime Minster Shehbaz Sharif also said to take back the violent extremism bill.<\/p>\n<p>He said that neither the bill was drafted by the current government nor the government presented it before the parliament. Azam Nazir Tarar said that the bill was drafted by the previous PTI government and the cabinet also approved the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The federal government has withdrawn the Prevention of violent extremism bill 2023. As per details, the bill presented in the senate was not only opposed by the opposition but also by the PDM and PML-N senators. The senate had dropped the government\u2019s bill for the prevention of violent extremism to bar \u201cany extremist or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":18447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[684,733,253,194,367],"class_list":["post-18446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-federal-government","tag-pakistan-tehreek-e-insaf","tag-pmln","tag-pti","tag-shehbaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}