Protection of Pakistan Ordinance challenged in Supreme Court

Petitioner says law violates basic human rights.


Web Desk April 09, 2014
Supreme Court of Pakistan. PHOTO: AFP/FILE

ISLAMABAD: The contentious Protection of Pakistan Ordinance (PPO), which grants sweeping powers of arrest and detention to security forces, was challenged in the Supreme Court on Wednesday, Express News reported.

Social worker and advocate Mehmood Akhtar Naqvi filed the petition in the apex court, stating the law violates basic human rights. Naqvi has raised several objections in his petition and said the law was formulated and passed in haste.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), with support of other opposition parties, had also threatened to challenge the bill in the top court.

The ordinance was rushed through the National Assembly on April 7 despite strong resistance from the opposition benches. The government is expected to table PPO in the Senate on April 14 where opposition parties, though divided, have an overwhelming majority in the house.

PPO – approved by President Mamnoon Hussain last year – is a decree that declares all peace-disrupting elements as ‘enemies of the state’, and states protection of life to be the state’s top priority.

COMMENTS (6)

Dravidian | 9 years ago | Reply

Protection of Pakistani act is antinational and against the wishes of the baloch people.

faisal | 9 years ago | Reply

Jibran: I thought the ordinance was passed through parliament due to N league. On another note, don't you think PPP was/is more dangerous than all these TTP, LeJ etc. Starting from Mr. Bhutto the only thing they've done is looting this country and nation out of their meagre resources. I sometimes feel the PPP walas follow another religion and that is stealing the public of their money.

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