Overview
- The Home Department’s notification renews Section 144 across Sindh for one month starting November 12.
- The order prohibits rallies, processions, protests and assemblies of more than five people under Section 144(6) of the Criminal Procedure Code.
- Copies were sent to commissioners, police chiefs, deputy commissioners and the Sindh Rangers with instructions for strict enforcement.
- Violations will be pursued under Section 188 of the Pakistan Penal Code, and police have been told to act against gatherings held in defiance of the ban.
- Officials frame the extension as a preventive security step, while some citizens express concern about limits on peaceful protest.