Earlier the Supreme Court Bar Association had said lawyers would file a petition with the deposed judges of the Lahore High Court if Ahsan was not freed. “Article 10 of the Constitution, dealing with detention issue, says a person could not be detained under a preventive law for more than 90 days unless he or she is brought before a review board.”

On food street

Lahoris love their meal, and it seems they need harbour no complaints about what they are served. The city government, Daily Times reported on January 31, has put registers at all of Lahore’s restaurants for registering customers’ complaints about unhygienic food or cleanliness of the place. Four months later the registers are mostly empty.

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