COVID resurgence: SC bar writes to CJP to ban public gatherings
By Hamid Khan Wazir
ISLAMABAD: Keeping in view the alarming upsurge in cases of the Coronavirus, the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has requested the Chief Justice of Pakistan Gulzar Ahmed to impose a ban on public gatherings across the Country.
“As your lordship knows that Article 9 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan gives protection to the health and safety of the public at large, therefore, the government has to provide better health facilities to the general public. As we observe that such facilities are not up to the mark even in normal conditions, rendering it nearly impossible to cater to such a deadly pandemic. Hence, it is requested and very humbly submitted, that being the custodian of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and while exercising the powers under article 184(3), suo motu notice may kindly be taken while imposing a ban upon every kind of public gatheri