Islamabad, Pakistan – Legislators belonging to Pakistan’s ruling party have introduced a bill seeking to empower officials in the capital, Islamabad, to regulate and even ban public rallies and gatherings.
The introduction of the Peaceful Assembly and Public Order Bill 2024 in the Senate, the upper house of Pakistan’s parliament, on Monday came a week before the main opposition group, led by jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan‘s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, had planned a rally in the city.
