PRESS AND PUBLICATION ORDINANCE
· In 1960, President Ayub Khan promulgated the Press and Publications Ordinance, 1960, covering 30 pages, which dealt with printing presses, newspapers, periodicals, books and other publications. · According to the ordinance, the government had been empowered to ask for security deposits from printing presses for publishing newspapers or books as well as for issuing objectionable material as defined by the ordinance. · Security deposits ranging from Rs500 to Rs10,000 could be demanded from printing presses. Appeals against such action would lie with a Special Bench of the High Court . The government had also been empowered to forfeit security deposits and, in certain cases, to prohibit the printing presses from publishing books or newspapers · Under the new rules, before obtaining a declaration, a pu...