Top Story April 17, 2021 ISLAMABAD: The federal government has sweeping powers to proscribe any organisation that is found involved in three activities, the principal among them being terrorism. Under the law, the central government may proceed on an ex-parte basis in banning an entity. The interior ministry’s notification, proscribing the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP), has been sent to numerous institutions for “information and necessary action”. They include the State Bank of Pakistan, ministries of finance, foreign affairs and Kashmir affairs & Gilgit-Baltistan (GB), the National Security Division, Election Commission of Pakistan, National Counterterrorism Authority, Islamabad chief commissioner, home secretaries of Punjab, Sindh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Azad Kashmir and GB, Security and Exchange Commission of Pakistan, the Federal Investigation Agency, Immigration & Passport and the Financial Monitoring Unit.