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Punjab to ban public display of weapons
The Punjab government has decided to cancel all licences for the public display of weapons as part of a drive to disarm the province, Chief Minister Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi told a press conference on Friday. Mr Elahi said, however, that licences for keeping weapons at home would not be threatened. The keeping of bodyguards with weapons would also be banned, he said, unless someoneâs life was under threat and they got permission from the government to keep private guards. The chief minister said trial anti-weapon campaigns had been launched in Nowshera Virkan, Sheikhupura and Gujrat had been very successful and would be expanded to other districts. He said everyone with licences to carry guns would have to deposit their weapons at their nearest police stations.
Posted by: Fred 2004-06-26 |
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