Sheesha Campaign: Section 144 imposed on sheesha
District Coordination Officer Noorul Amin Mengal has imposed a ban on sheesha use in public under Section 144 amidst the city government’s ongoing campaign against sheesha cafes.
Many cafes have been sealed for serving sheesha while government teams are still conducting raids in several places. The DCO issued a notification on Saturday imposing Section 144 and stating that no cafes could serve sheesha to their customers. The DCO also issued directions to all town officials to form special teams to check cafes and ensure the ban is implemented.
A city government official said that the purpose of imposing Section 144 was to allow the police to take action against cafes that serve sheesha too. Previously, the DCO had said that the action against sheesha cafes was being taken under the Prohibition of Smoking in Public Ordinance.
Published In The Express Tribune, June 17th, 2012.
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I don't understand there r so many things that require action upon like electricity , gasoline , education , medical facilities ignoring all of those this idiotic government goes after smoking sheesha while it's okay to sell cigretes to minors , money money money all this country ministers want , Pakistan should take out islamic country from its name since all it's doing is ruining the name of Islam, because all over the world pakistan is consider a Islamic nation but wait we even cheat people who go on hajj and Umrah , so how are we a Islamic nation. Either stop cheating the nation in the name of Islam or please take out Islamic nation from pakistan , pakistan has no right to ruine the reputation of Islam , we are worried how thr west or non Muslims n kafirs we r nothing less then them , actually even worse
When the sheesha laws were being debated in out ESTEEMED parliament. I told my friends this is a clear-cut plan to mint money from cafes. And now this is what is happening, I go to sheesha cafes on more than half of the days in the week. And every sheesha owner has confessed to paying huge sums of money monthly to the relevant police stations. And DCO sahib, i dont want to bring it to your notice, as I am sure you must be knowing it and mut be....anyways.