Karachi February 18, 2021 The Sindh government, concerned over threats and inconvenience caused to the public by the blocking of highways during protests, has ordered an immediate ban on staging protest rallies and sit-ins on highways and bypasses, throughout the province for 60 days. A notification, issued in this regard by the home department, reads that no highway and inter-district road blockade will be allowed in view of the deliberations done during the 25th provincial apex committee meeting held on January 25, when threats, inconvenience to the public and negative socio-economic impacts of such blockages were taken into consideration. The notification further says: “Moreover, inputs were received on the same lines from the HQ Pakistan Rangers Sindh vide a letter dated January-20, 2021 subject ‘Internal Security Conference January 2021’. The Inspector General of Police Sindh vide letters dated January 26, 2021 and dated January 27, 2021 also conveyed the key points and areas having strategic and crucial locations in terms of industrial and commercial activities and requested not to allow such protest sit-ins and blockades at these places.