It ignored an order from the Islamabad High Court that the right to protest and assembly should not cause disturbance to citizens.53 Its ministers reached a deal with TLP to end the Islamabad protest by promising to expel the French ambassador in the next three months and releasing the workers who staged the sit-in.54 The Punjab government helped to arrange his funeral attended by hundreds of thou. [...] In 2015 after the discovery of mass graves and mutilated bodies, the Supreme Court ordered the government to produce lists of the missing persons in Pakistan.102 In 2017 the Pakistan government established a second Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances to trace the missing, fix responsibility for disappearances and register police cases against individuals involved. [...] Protestors said the state had pushed workers “into the slavery of the IMF” and demanded government to fix the minimum wage at Rs.30,000.144 The Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), a civil society organization representing the fishing community in coastal areas of Pakistan, began to mobilize in September 2020 against plans to develop two islands off the coast of Karachi and the federal government’s de. [...] The Sindh government asked the federal government to immediately withdraw the PIDA ordinance as the islands that belonged to the people and government of Sindh.147 The federal-provincial conflict continues due to confusion over who owns the islands. [...] Next, the federal government revived the debate over the 2010 18th constitutional amendment which increased the power and control of the provinces over their own finance and development.184 Floods in August 2020 brought an unwelcome focus on urban flooding city of Karachi, generating criticism from the federal government about the state of the city and collapse of its infrastructure.
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