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[Asad Ali Toor @AsadAToor]

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Even speaker Punjab assembly who is key member of #PMLN is shocked to see that what British Raj was not allowed to implement, here PMLN #Punjab govt bringing a law more draconian. PMLN lawmaker confirms speaker Punjab assembly speaker @MalikMAhmadKhan that yes we are giving powers to deputy commissioners to declare any individual anti social and seize his bank account, property, phones, online accounts and put him on electronic watch.

[Yousuf Nazar @YousufNazar]

It is time for the PPP to leave the coalition and distance itself from the PML-N—if it retains even a fraction of its past democratic conscience.

The Punjab Control of Habitual Offenders and Anti-Social Behaviour Bill, 2026, is one of the most dangerous pieces of legislation proposed in Pakistan in recent years. It gives executive committees dominated by police and intelligence officials the power to brand citizens as "habitual offenders" or "anti-social" and punish them without first securing a criminal conviction.

The powers are breathtaking. Bank accounts can be frozen. Property can be attached. Electronic devices can be seized. Electronic surveillance can be imposed. Travel documents can be restricted. Social media accounts and online content can be targeted. None of this requires the state to prove guilt beyond reasonable doubt in a court of law before these sanctions take effect.

The danger lies not only in the powers themselves but in who exercises them. The committees are empowered to decide what constitutes "anti-social behaviour." Alongside organised crime and drug offences, the bill includes vague offences such as spreading "misinformation," using abusive language in public and causing annoyance. Worse still, it allows the executive to expand these categories through subordinate legislation. Citizens can be sanctioned on the basis of intelligence reports, police records or repeated arrests—even where no court has ever found them guilty of any offence.

This is not the rule of law. It is rule by executive discretion. In plain, it is goonda raj by SHO of local police station.

The bill allows the executive not merely to investigate alleged wrongdoing but to impose severe penalties before guilt has been established by an independent court. Judicial oversight is reduced largely to reviewing executive action after the damage has already been done.

No democratic government should be asking Parliament for powers of this magnitude. They undermine the presumption of innocence, weaken due process and concentrate extraordinary authority in bodies that are neither independent nor accountable in the way courts are. The inevitable result will be selective enforcement, political abuse and the chilling of dissent.

The PPP once stood for constitutionalism, civil liberties and resistance to authoritarian rule. If those principles still mean anything, it cannot remain in a coalition advancing legislation that places such sweeping powers in the hands of the executive.

Silence would make it complicit.

[Dr Shama Junejo @ShamaJunejo]

ایک جوان بے گناہ عورت کو بیوہ کرنا اور اس کی معصوم بچیوں کو یتیم کرنا کونسی بلوچ روایت ہے؟

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Maybe the Europeans should have thought about all that back when they were colonizing Africa in the 19th century.

[The Knowledge Archivist @KnowledgeArchiv]

"A good man without strength is only hoping evil has mercy."

— Sun Tzu, The Art of War

[Russell Crowe @russellcrowe]

Recently at Lord’s Cricket Ground @HomeOfCricket this stunning painted portrait of my late cousin MD Crowe was unveiled. The artist, Jason Brooks, has captured so much of who he was -
Open
Intelligent
Focused
Warm
Determined
Patient
Formidable

[Matiullah Jan @Matiullahjan919]

یہ ہے سیاستدانوں کی اوقات ؟

[zack @LocoRibelle]

And yet they say:
قوم کو لیڈر ہی نہیں ٹھیک ملے۔
قوم ساری بیمار ہے!

[Syeda Zahra @ZahraShahPTI]

دن دیہاڑے نوجوان لڑکی کو اغوا کرنے کی کوشش لڑکی کو زبردستی گاڑی میں بٹھانے کی کوشش، کزنوں کے شور مچانے پر ملزمان فرار.

[Syeda Zahra @ZahraShahPTI]

دن دیہاڑے نوجوان لڑکی کو اغوا کرنے کی کوشش لڑکی کو زبردستی گاڑی میں بٹھانے کی کوشش، کزنوں کے شور مچانے پر ملزمان فرار.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif:

There cannot be double standards where some countries can have ballistic missiles and Iran should not.

You cannot digest this kind of duplicity.

[SorathSindhu @SindhuSorath]

It was Zia who put Shaheed Benazir Bhutto in jail, now it is PPP-led Balochistan government that has put Mahrang Baloch in jail..!

Waqt waqt ki baat hy

[zack @LocoRibelle]

Beyond belief … looks like fake news but

[Bushra Shaikh @Bushra1Shaikh]

It doesn't get more evil than this.

Mother and boyfriend raped and murdered two-year-old daughter, fracturing 21 bones in her body.
https://t.co/T21Qf4JDK6

[zack @LocoRibelle]

This and what happened in Sardogha. And yet very conveniently most believe only the rulers are bad. It’s the entire nation!

[Tooba Syed @Tooba_Sd]

Every single day.

[محمدباقر قالیباف | MB Ghalibaf @mb_ghalibaf]

در یکی از برنامه‌های خوب صداوسیما دیدم که گفتند کاش فرودگاه مهرآباد را می‌بستند تا تیم مذاکره‌کننده به سوئیس نرود. به آن عزیزان می‌گویم اگر به سوئیس نمی‌رفتیم، هر لحظه خون بیشتری از مسلمانان و شیعیان لبنان ریخته می‌شد.

[Asad Ali Toor @AsadAToor]

RIP sons, prayers for your parents https://t.co/yMU3cb3q6O

[Muhammad Zeeshan Awan @surrakimuhammad]

معصوم بچی جس کریانہ سٹور پر سودا سلف لینے گئی، مردہ حالت میں اسی کی بالائی منزل سے برآمد ہوئی جہاں دکان میں کا�� کرنے والے لڑکوں کی رہائش تھی۔

[Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent @SecScottBessent]

Under President @realDonaldTrump and @VP, we continue to make the world safer and more prosperous.

In line with the ongoing productive talks in Switzerland, Iran has committed to free and open transit in the Strait of Hormuz and to permit International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors into their country.

As part of the framework, Treasury has issued a temporary 60-day general license authorizing the production, delivery, and sale of Iranian oil.

[Mubashir Zaidi @xadeejourno]

I strongly condemn the harsh prison sentence to Mahrang Baloch and other activists. Their only crime was to protest peacefully. Our State will never learn #IStandWithMahrangBaloch

[cyril almeida @cyalm]

Baloch history… convict despite no crime…

[Afrasiab Khattak @a_siab]

Conviction of the BYC leader Dr. Mahrang Baloch & her colleagues for life shuts the doors for peaceful political solution. It’s a colonial & myopic policy that prefers violence over peace. The ones who insisted on talks with Taliban in Afg are rejecting negotiations with Baloch.