Organisers must get prior permission for hosting any meeting at public place: DC Yasir Riaz Ch.
Altaf Hamid Rao.
MIRPUR (AJK): Nov. 18: District Magistrate Mirpur has warned the organisers of any proposed public meeting or gathering at any public place, to always take prior permission for holding such public congregation at any site of public utilisation by strictly adhering to the recently promulgated Presidential Ordinance-2024 in Azad Jammu Kashmir.
In an informal chat with our this AJK Staffer here on Monday, Mirpur AJK District Magistrate -Deputy Commissioner Yasir Riaz Chaudhry said that there no any restriction on freedom of expression or freedom of speech, but ensuring the maintainable of public, peace, law and order and tranquility was the responsibility of each District Administration to maintain writ of the state, he underlined.
The DC continued that those social, political, religious or any other public representative organization, seeking to host any public meeting at any public place, must take the prior permission from the local district administration for holding any public meeting at any public place in the district under The AJK Peaceful Assembly and Public Order Ordinance Presidential Ordinance 2024.
As reported earlier, Mirpur AJK city police had on Sunday booked at least 15 persons including 08 AJK PTI leaders and workers including the party’s AJK Chapter President and former Prime Minister Sardar Qayyum Niazi for defying the prohibitory orders by attempting to hold the party’s workers meeting at Mirpur PWD State Guest House, without securing prior formal permission from the local district administration for holding the meeting.
Police have sofar rounded up 11 people including 04 local PTI leaders, who reportedly had courted arrests in the City police station on Sunday, after they were booked for defying the prohibitory orders allegedly deliberately violating the Presidential Order – 2024