Imambargah attacked in Fatehpur
02-03-2004
MAILSI: Mailsi police arrested three people who attacked an Imambargah in Fatehpur, some 100 kms south-east of Multan, on Monday night and injured two mourners, Khawar Abbas and Abrar Shah, adds PPI.
The arrested men have been identified as Gulzar, Mumtaz and Mushtaq. Meanwhile, panic spread in the imambargah Tibba Habib Shah in Bhakkar on Monday night when a rumour spread that an alleged terrorist had entered the imambargah to plant a bomb.
"A youth jumped into the imambargah in Kot Jam, Bhakkar, some 110 kms south-west of Multan, on Monday. The guards fired shots in the air and he managed to run away taking advantage of darkness. The building was thoroughly searched later but nothing was found," said the Bhakkar DPO.
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Mourning procession rerouted in Gilgit
02-03-2004
GILGIT, March 3: Tension gripped Astore and Gilgit city on Tuesday when mourning processions were not allowed to pass through a non-traditional route in Astore valley.
Witnesses said that over 15,000 mourners in Gilgit surrounded the Northern Areas Civil Secretariat for two-and-a-half hours against what they called "a violation of religious freedom".
Sources said the mourners were stopped from passing through a new route, which triggered tension and the mourners refused to take the traditional route. An official of the Northern Areas administration said the mourners wanted to use a non-traditional route without having a no-objection certificate (NoC) from the administration. Therefore they were stopped to avoid any law and order situation in the valley.
The official claimed that the law and order situation in Astore valley was under complete control. However, a Shia leader of the Northern Areas, Agha Ziauddin Rizvi, said they would continue their protests not only to condemn what he termed oppression of their sect, but also against the killing of people in Karbala, Baghdad, Quetta and Punjab. Mr Rizvi said they would launch a campaign against the so-far-delayed issue of controversial curriculum from April.
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CID seizes arms from from Bara for subversive activities during the Ashura processions
02-03-2004
PESHAWAR, March 3: The Crime Investigation Department on Tuesday seized an arms cache being smuggled from tribal area. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday at the CID headquarters
, SP Sajjad Afzal said his department had been tipped off about arms smuggling attempts from Darra Adamkhel to Peshawar.
The Tuesday haul was the second biggest seizure in the past three days as the city police on Monday also foiled an attempt to smuggle a big cache of arms at Pishtakhara police checkpoint.
Giving details he said that a CID team had erected barricade near Darwazgai area in Matani on Kohat road and on suspicion stopped a tractor-trolley filled with sand. "The accused had placed the weapons in secret cavities of the trolley and filled it with sand," Mr Afzal said.
During the search the CID seized 35 kalashnikovs, 28 riffles of different calibres, 61 pistols, 73 shotguns, 79 magazines of various bore, 10,059 rounds of 30-bore and other parts of sophisticated weapons.
"I cannot rule out the possibility of using these weapons for terrorism," he said and added that the situation would be clear after the remand of the accused, Sahib Shah, a resident of Mardan.
"We have got details of the distribution of these arms among the people in Peshawar and other parts of the country and we will certainly broaden the scope of investigation," he said.
On Monday, the city police had seized rifles being smuggled in a pick-up van from Bara in Khyber Agency to Peshawar and arrested the driver near Pishtakhara police station, official sources told Dawn.
Some two dozen rifles including Kalashnikovs were seized from the van (Peshawar-L 4116), the sources said. The smuggler was possibly bringing the riffles to Peshawar for subversive activities during the Ashura processions, they added. A case had been registered against the driver of the van, Akbar Ali, a resident of Pishtakhara Payan.
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22 booked for creating disturbance
06-03-2004
GILGIT, March 6: Police have registered cases against 22 people for creating disturbance here on Friday, in which two activists of the outlawed Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan were hurt.
The station house officer of the city police station said on Saturday that no one had been arrested.
SSP MEN INJURED: Two activists of the outlawed Sipah-i-Sahaba were injured in a crossfire with the police and the Frontier Constabulary the other day.
Sources said some activists of the group had gathered at Napura and set up hurdles on the road, where a Majlis-i-Aza was to be held. Police said as they tried to remove the hurdles, the activists hurled stones at them and opened fire.
"The police and the FC resorted to retaliatory fire. It is not clear whose firing caused the injuries," a police official said.
The injured, Asim Wali and Ehtesham, residents of Napura, Basin, were taken to the district headquarters hospital.
Tension gripped the city after the incident, all the markets were closed and the traffic came to a halt.
Speaking at a protest rally at Hunza Chowk, Jama Masjid Khatib Maulana Qazi Nisar alleged that every year the participants of the Muharram procession at Napura raised provocative slogans, which led to tension.
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