‘Barricades will be off . . . soon’
Closed thoroughfares near the offices of several top officials of the police had been opened.
LAHORE:
The Punjab government assured the Lahore High Court on Friday that pickets and barricades set up for security in front of the office of the Inspector General of police will be removed soon.
This undertaking was given by a provincial law officer who also informed Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik that closed thoroughfares near the offices of several top officials of the police had been opened.
The judge was hearing a petition seeking a policy to regulate demonstrations in the province especially in Lahore and administrative action against Punjab Paramedical Alliance over the death of a woman in an ambulance which got stuck in a demonstration before Punjab Institution of Cardiology.
Capital City Police Officer Ahmad Raza Tahir, Deputy Inspector General of Police Ghulam Mahmood Dogar and District Coordination Officer Ahad Cheema were present in the court. DCO Cheema told the court that several roads had been banned for protest processions following imposition of Section 144. The judge adjourned further hearing of the petition and sought a detailed report within a month regarding the death of Saleema Bibi who had reportedly died after her ambulance failed to reach the PIC due to a protest demonstration. The petition was filed by Advocate Mian Asad Mahmood.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 3rd, 2012.
The Punjab government assured the Lahore High Court on Friday that pickets and barricades set up for security in front of the office of the Inspector General of police will be removed soon.
This undertaking was given by a provincial law officer who also informed Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik that closed thoroughfares near the offices of several top officials of the police had been opened.
The judge was hearing a petition seeking a policy to regulate demonstrations in the province especially in Lahore and administrative action against Punjab Paramedical Alliance over the death of a woman in an ambulance which got stuck in a demonstration before Punjab Institution of Cardiology.
Capital City Police Officer Ahmad Raza Tahir, Deputy Inspector General of Police Ghulam Mahmood Dogar and District Coordination Officer Ahad Cheema were present in the court. DCO Cheema told the court that several roads had been banned for protest processions following imposition of Section 144. The judge adjourned further hearing of the petition and sought a detailed report within a month regarding the death of Saleema Bibi who had reportedly died after her ambulance failed to reach the PIC due to a protest demonstration. The petition was filed by Advocate Mian Asad Mahmood.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 3rd, 2012.