LAKKI MARWAT, Nov 11: The Lakki Marwat police have launched a crackdown on the leaders of various religious and political parties for being responsible for deteriorating law and order in the district by holding violent demonstrations against the United States and its allied forces.  

According to a press release, issued by the office of SP Abdullah Khan, the police have launched a crackdown to arrest those religious and political leaders and the Ulema under whose leadership thousands of people have held protest demonstrations against the American-led attacks on Afghanistan and the support the Pakistan government has extended to the world coalition in its war on terrorism.

The press release said all leaders had been charged with causing damage to public and private property, blocking highways and disrupting traffic under sections 341, 188, 504, 505, 506, 153, 186, 148, 379, 189 of the PPC and section 16 of the Maintenance and Public Order (MPO).

The police said those arrested, including Sahibzada Nasrullah, Maulana Iqbal Khan, Maulana Rafiq, Maulana Abdul Rahim, Maulana Abdul Rehman, Niamat Rassol of Serai Naurang, Habiurrehman of Taja Zai and Awal Shah of Tajori, had been shifted to the Dera Ismail Khan Central Prison.