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Pakistan committed towards regional peace and stability: CJCSC
April 10, 2021
Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Nadeem Raza says Pakistan is committed to peace and has contributed towards regional peace and stability.
Addressing the passing out parade of cadets of 143rd Long Course at Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul on Saturday, he asked the world to recognize Pakistan s consistent peace overtures and take notice of the human rights violations in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
He said today, the entire nation stands united against terrorism and extremism.
Congratulating the passing out cadets for successful completion of training and commission into Pakistan Army, the CJCSC advised passing out cadets to keep themselves abreast with latest challenges.
‘Ridiculous idea’, Fawad says after NA body approved bill criminalising criticism of army
Science and Technology Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Thursday said it was “absolutely ridiculous” to criminalise criticism, a day after a lower house panel passed a bill proposing stern punishment for disrespecting the armed forces.
The minister was responding to a tweet by a senior journalist, who while commenting on the bill passed by the National Assembly committee, taunted that citizens were free to criticise the parliament, politicians and media “but the rest is national interest”.
Fawad wrote that it was an absolutely ridiculous idea to criminalise criticism.
Daily Times
April 9, 2021
In an apparent reference to a new proposed bill that criminalises criticism of Pakistan’s armed forces, Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry Thursday said that he feels that such a move is an “absolutely ridiculous idea”.
Though Chaudhry, in his post on Twitter, does not name the bill, his remarks come a day after the bill was approved by the National Assembly Standing Committee on Interior. Under the proposed amendment, critics of the Pakistan armed forces will face two years in jail as well as fines worth up to Rs500,000. Chaudhry’s tweet came in response to a post by senior journalist Mazhar Abbas who wrote that while a citizen in Pakistan is free to criticise democracy, free to criticise parliament, free to criticise politicians, and free to criticise media, the rest is chalked up to “national interest”.
The bill was passed with five against four votes when the committee chairman voted for it. APP/File
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Interior has approved a bill to make amendments to the Pakistan Penal Code and Code of Criminal Procedure 1898 to take action against those who intentionally ridicule armed forces.
The bill says anyone who shall be guilty of said offence could face up to two years imprisonment or fine that may extend to Rs500,000, or both.
The bill, titled Criminal Law Amendment Bill 2020 introduced by PTI MNA Amjid Ali Khan, was approved by the NA committee on interior, which met here on Wednesday with MNA Raja Khurram Nawaz in the chair.