The city's mayor, Ada Colau, who took office in 2015, stopped the granting of new tourist licences for homes and hotels.
Given the Pakistani army's dominant role in the country's affairs, many analysts think the army's general, Raheel Sharif, who is not related to the prime minister, could stop the grant if he chose to.
The city council said stopping the grants could save them £700,000.
David Cameron, facing an increasingly aggressive tabloid campaign to stop the high court granting injunctions protecting the privacy of celebrities, announced a joint parliamentary committee to examine the complex related issues of privacy, injunctions, the regulation of the internet and the role of the press complaints commission.
— Climate kids suing federal government ask court to block fossil fuel production: The nearly two dozen kids and young adults suing the government over a lack of climate action are calling on a court to stop the government from granting permits for drilling on federal land and offshore regions.
After he took office in late 2008 (during Operation Cast Lead, as the city hunkered down under its first ever rocket attacks), Danilovich turned to the Treasury Ministry's budget department with a simple request: stop the "budget grants" (which the government issues to towns struggling to maintain budgetary balance).
Despite calls from Clarke for the federal government to use its power of reservation to stop the legislation, Bulyea granted royal assent December 16.
These arguments failed to stop the approval, which was granted in late July.
Mr. Mubarak and his former interior minister were sentenced to life in prison for failing to stop the killings, but were granted a retrial this month.
But some public officials and legal aid groups have denounced the study as unethical and cruel, and have called on the city to stop the study and to grant help to all the test subjects who had been denied assistance.
