Section 144 Imposed In Islamabad
Section 144 Imposed In Islamabad: The Capital administration on Tuesday imposed Section-144 in the city few days ahead of the 2018 general elections.
According to the notification, there would be complete ban on any kind of show of weapons and violent activities.
A ban has also been imposed on fireworks and sound system in the federal capital under Section-144.
The district administration has also imposed a ban on stone crushing and wall chalking in Islamabad. The notification further stated that there would be a complete ban on pasting pamphlets and posters and holding rallies.
Pakistan will hold a general election on July 25 and President Mamnoon Hussain had approved the date, electoral officials. All 342 members of the country’s National Assembly will face voters, which they last did in 2013. Pakistan’s National Assembly is the lower chamber of its Parliament, which also has a Senate. Senators are chosen by provincial legislators, who’ll also face the country’s more than 100 million voters that day.
Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf is expected to be the main challenger to the ruling party in the general elections. Earlier, the ECP announced that a total of 105.95 million voters will use their right of vote to elect the new government.
Among them are 59.2 million male and 46.7 million female voters, showing A gender gap of over 12.5 million.
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has expanded its scope of investigation against former finance minister for allegedly holding assets beyond income. According to sources, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has provided the anti-graft watchdog relevant details.
NAB has also been provided a profile of the former finance minister, which includes details of nomination papers as well as expenses incurred on his election campaigns. Ishaq Dar, 67, was indicted in October in a graft case in which he is accused of making assets that were “disproportionate to his known sources of income”.
The case was filed against him by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) in the light of the Supreme Court order of July 28 that disqualified Nawaz Sharif as prime minister in the Panama Papers scandal.
In its case against Dar, the NAB has alleged that the accused has acquired assets and pecuniary interests/resources in his own name and/or in the name of his dependants of an approximate amount of Rs 831.678 million.
Dar is in London since October and has been seeking treatment of an undefined heart complication at a Harley Street hospital.
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