Muqam terms PECA ordinance attack on freedom of expression

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PESHAWAR
The provincial president of Pakistan Muslim League (PML-N) Amir Muqam has said that opposition parties have agreed to bring no-confidence motion in the national assembly against the Prime Minister Imran Khan.
He criticized the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) for the Prevention of Electronic Crime Act 2016 (PECA 2016) and said soon the nation would see the fall of the Imran Khan government.
He was talking to the media outside the Peshawar High Court after appearing in a case of disproportionate assets.
Amir Muqam said that Imran Khan’s allies and his party lawmakers were dissatisfied with his unwise policies, adding that a number of PTI allies and members in the national assembly would support the no-trust motion.
Rejecting the amendment in the Election Act Amendment Ordinance, the provincial president of PML-N alleged that allowing ministers in the election campaign had a plan to tamper with the local body elections.
The PML-N provincial president said that the presidency has been turned into an ordinance factory from where arbitrary amendments were being made.
He termed the PECA as an attack on freedom of expression in the country, adding that restrictions on the freedom of expression were against the spirit of country law.
Amir Muqam accused the Prime Minister for taking away the powers of certain institutions and said that all promises made by the PTI government with people proved untruthful.
He also rejected the statement of the Finance Minister that there was no poverty in Pakistan and that we were better than 139 countries.
He said that due to wrong economic policies inflation was increasing day by day and petrol prices were skyrocketing while rupee was depreciating continuously.
Amir Muqam said that due to the economic policies of the PML-N government, the country was on the path of development and the people were prosperous and the country was moving forward.
The present incompetent government turned the tide on all good deeds and plunged the country into despair and frustration he added.