Overview
- Punjab extended Section 144 across the province to November 15, keeping a ban on rallies, protests and assemblies of four or more people.
- The Punjab order also bars displaying weapons and limits loudspeaker use to the call to prayer and Friday sermons, with exemptions for funerals, weddings, officials and courts.
- This is the fourth weekly renewal in Punjab since the initial October 8 order following successive threat assessments by law enforcement and intelligence agencies.
- Balochistan’s amended provincewide notification runs through November 30 and adds bans on pillion riding, face coverings that block identification, unregistered motorcycles and tinted vehicle windows, while prohibiting gatherings of five or more with exemptions for women, children and the elderly on pillion riding.
- Violations in Balochistan will be prosecuted under Section 188 of the Pakistan Penal Code with police, Levies and Frontier Corps enforcing the order and deputy commissioners submitting daily compliance reports.