ISLAMABAD: The Government is to introduce a Bill in the National Assembly to provide for the prevention of interference with the Armed Forces of Pakistan. The Bill is designed to keep the Armed Forces in the highest state of efficiency, free from any sort of interference and undesirable criticism of the discharge of their professional responsibilities for the defence of the country. The law sought to be enacted is titled: the Prevention of the Interference with the Armed Forces Act, 1973. Punishment … includes imprisonment for a term that may extend to 14 years.

… The Bill provides that if the person guilty of an offence under this Act is a company or other body corporate, every director, manager, secretary or other officer or agent thereof shall, unless he proves that the offence was committed without his knowledge or that he exercised all due diligence to prevent its commission, be deemed … guilty of the offence.

[Meanwhile, according to news agencies from Karachi,] President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto met student leaders yesterday [June 22] … . The … student leaders … represented Karachi University and various local colleges. The student leaders apprised the President of problems faced by the student community… .

Published in Dawn, June 23rd, 2023