Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday directed the KP government to allocate a place for protest demonstrations and public meetings. A bench of the high court was hearing a petition against protests at the Assembly Chowk and other roads of Peshawar.
The court observed that some 12 to 20 hit the road and block it without any response from the administration. “In a civilized society no one dare to move ahead when seeing a solitary policeman,” Justice Roohul Ameen observed. “Here, even the police and doctors beaten with sticks,” the court further said.—INP
