{"id":39142,"date":"2024-06-10T13:19:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T08:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=39142"},"modified":"2024-06-10T13:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T08:19:28","slug":"despite-criticism-gazette-notification-for-punjab-defamation-bill-2024-issued","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/despite-criticism-gazette-notification-for-punjab-defamation-bill-2024-issued\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite criticism, Gazette notification for Punjab Defamation Bill 2024 issued"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The government has issued a gazette notification for the \u2018controversial\u2019 Punjab Defamation Bill 2024, after approval from the acting governor.<\/p>\n<p>On June 7, Acting Governor Malik Ahmed Khan sent the document to the Punjab Assembly after signing the bill, which was held by the PPP\u2019s governor.<\/p>\n<p>According to the notification, the Punjab <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjabs-controversial-defamation-bill-2024-signs-into-law\/\">Defamation<\/a> Bill 2024 has been enforced across Punjab with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p>The law will address the pervasive issue of misinformation on social media platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. Under the bill, a defamation case can be filed on those spreading \u2018fake news\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The Defamation Act of the Punjab Government consists of 28 sections. Under the defamation law, an appeal against the decision can be filed within 30 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The government has issued a gazette notification for the \u2018controversial\u2019 Punjab Defamation Bill 2024, after approval from the acting governor. On June 7, Acting Governor Malik Ahmed Khan sent the document to the Punjab Assembly after signing the bill, which was held by the PPP\u2019s governor. According to the notification, the Punjab Defamation Bill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":39143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18367,18366,189,18365],"class_list":["post-39142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-defamation","tag-gazette-notification-for-punjab-defamation-bill-2024-issued","tag-punjab","tag-punjab-defamation-bill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39142","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}