LAHORE: The Lahore High Court on Thursday allowed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) to hold Raiwind march. The verdict was announced by LHC’s three-member bench headed by Justice Shahid Hamid. The court also ordered the administration to provide necessary security.
The pleas that were filed in the high court against the protest rally being purported as ‘Raiwind March’ maintained that there was a threat of civil war and riots due to the much hyped confrontation between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on September 30.
However, the high court acknowledged stance maintained by PTI that every citizen of Pakistan reserved the right to demonstrate a peaceful protest. Punjab government, meanwhile, assured the high court of mobilizing all functional assets for provision of security to the locals. —INP
