ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has given assent to a controversial bill passed by the both houses of parliament to ‘regulate’ public gatherings in Islamabad, making it a law within less than a week after it first landed in the Senate.
Aimed to empower the district magistrate to regulate and ban public gatherings in Islamabad, the ‘Peaceful Assembly and Public Order Bill 2024’ was tabled in the upper house on Sept 2, approved by the standing committee concerned on Sept 3 and passed...