Supreme Court of Pakistan. PHOTO: AFP/FILE
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.
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Protection of Pakistani act is antinational and against the wishes of the baloch people.
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.
@A J Khan..police and other LEAs will get the power to enter any one house without warrants even if there is no male member on suspicious..when it enter own house then you will realized..
@A J Khan - you would rather have all powers in the hand of human rights champion who will book a 9 month old for attempted murder and record your beloved land in Guiness Book of world record for an unbreakable record in the history of human civilization.
You would rather have power in hand of people like Abid Sher Ali who will accussed others a theive but will not pay his dues and will spare most Punjab. You will rather give power to Ch Nisar and Ayaz Sadiq who will sake a chairman NADRA overnight to not allow justice. You will rather give power to those who will appoint and promote Sen. Mushahidullah brother from back date.
@A J Khan: There is a race between PTI and PMLN to appease terrorists. In fact, TTP , LeJ, and ASWJ are PMLN's "innocent" brothers, and this law is not meant to exterminate them. This is just diversionary tactics to give legal convert of converting missing persons in corpses. Target well mostly be Balochs.
Very funny. PTI entire fight is for the Human Rights of Terrorists.