{"id":23498,"date":"2024-01-23T22:53:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T17:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=23498"},"modified":"2024-01-23T22:53:56","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T17:53:56","slug":"section-144-imposed-across-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/section-144-imposed-across-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Section 144 imposed across Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab Home Department enforced Section 144 across the province on Tuesday ahead of general elections 2024, citing \u2018threats to law and order situation and public peace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>According to a notification, the Punjab Home Department pointed out that a large number of public gatherings, rallies, corner meetings \u2013 related to upcoming general elections \u2013 may \u201cserve as soft targets for any desperate act by terrorists and miscreants\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides, given the past history, possibility of clashes between contesting candidates and rival political parties\/ groups in different areas, cannot be ruled out, which may pose threats to public peace and order in the province,\u201d read the notification.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-ad id_inline_ad1 id_ad_content-horiz-center\"><\/div>\n<p>It further stated that the ensuing security milieu demands \u201cextraordinary vigilance and extensive security measures to pre-empt any toward incident\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Citing such threats, the Home Department enforced Section 144 till Feb 12 and prohibit the following actions across Punjab:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carrying and display of all kinds of weapons including the licensed ones.<\/li>\n<li>All types of firing.<\/li>\n<li>Violation of any clause of Code of Conduct issued by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecp.gov.pk\/\">ECP<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Earlier in the day, public rallies and corner meetings ahead of elections 2024 were banned in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s Tank district amid law and order situation.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy commissioner Tank has slapped\u00a0Section 144 to ban public rallies\u00a0and corner meetings of the political parties due to law and\u00a0order concerns.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/12-children-die-in-punjab-due-to-pneumonia.html\">12 children die in Punjab due to Pneumonia<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The political parties have been directed to obtain prior permission from the district administration so that the security of the public gathering can be ensured.<\/p>\n<p>The ban will remain enforced for 21 days, the notification issued by the Tank DC read.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nawaz-slams-a-decade-of-lackluster-governance-in-kp.html\">Nawaz slams a decade of lackluster governance in KP<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Punjab Home Department enforced Section 144 across the province on Tuesday ahead of general elections 2024, citing \u2018threats to law and order situation and public peace\u201d. According to a notification, the Punjab Home Department pointed out that a large number of public gatherings, rallies, corner meetings \u2013 related to upcoming general elections \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":23499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[10434,5836,189],"class_list":["post-23498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-elections-2024","tag-section-144","tag-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23498","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=23498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}