CM Maryam orders immediate arrest of Pera officer over alleged assault on shopkeeper

LAHORE - Punjab Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz Sharif on Thurs day took notice of the alleged assault on a shopkeeper by a Punjab Enforcement and Regu latory Authority (Pera) officer in Rahim Yar Khan and ordered his immediate arrest. The chief minister said law enforcement personnel were not above the law and would not be allowed to take the law into their own hands. She made it clear that the government would not tolerate violence against any citizen, em phasising that officials entrusted with maintaining law and order were equally bound to act within the law.