After facing severe criticism from political parties, civil societies and media, chief minister has agreed to review the Ordinance that aims to shield public servants against malicious allegations besides barring media to report on such allegations without verification by the government. According to highly-placed sources, government may refer this Ordinance to select committee for review and its recommendations. “Provisions barring media to report on public servants without getting go ahead from the government may be deleted from the Ordinance. Much of the cyber bandwidth has been occupied with condemnations from all quarters over her Ordinance that aims to shield honest public servants against malicious allegations besides barring media to report on allegations without any verification. Sensing that this Ordinance could arm Congress with an election issue, she decided to review the Ordinance to make it more acceptable.

Source: dna October 24, 2017 01:52 UTC