Peca

FIA takes action over alleged fake news regarding PTI's Nov 26 protest.

Revises unlawful content category of aspersion to include false, damaging information against members of parliament, provincial assemblies as well.

Says she had submitted objection in writing, warning that the law would "come back to haunt us".

While political parties will always be engaged in a Game of Thrones, the collateral are journalists, academics and citizens, who never have been nor ever will be in positions of power.

By now, the Peca law had been established as the go-to tool for the state to silence or intimidate its naysayers.

What began under the PML-N government, intensified under PTI rule and is in vogue once again under the PDM government.