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| November 30, 2001 | Friday | Ramazan 14, 1422 |
Agencies start collecting data on Afghan refugees
FAISALABAD, Nov 29: Special teams comprising intelligence and law enforcement agencies personnel have started collecting data about fresh Afghan refugees to avoid any reaction from them on Pakistan’s Afghan policy.
Sources said here on Thursday that the federal government has directed all law enforcement agencies to check the activities of Afghan refugees, especially residing in congested city localities.
The government has also directed that Afghan refugees settled in Pakistan for the last couple of years should not be allowed to deliver lectures in mosques and other places, sources claimed.
They said heads of all national registration offices have also been asked by the interior ministry to take action against the people involved in issuing bogus national identity cards.
Sources claimed that the managements of seminaries have been directed that they should not permit any religious leader to speak against the government policy from their platform otherwise legal action would be taken against them.
They claimed that the federal government has received a report that some terrorists had entered Pakistan to create law and order situation.
The managements of all churches and imambargahs have also been directed by the police not to hold any special gathering or function on their premises before informing area police.
Local police also asked all the hotel owners not to give accommodation to the people without collecting their complete bio-data.
BENAZIR’S RETURN: People’s Party chairperson Benazir Bhutto would reach Pakistan and lead the party in general elections to put the country on path to progress and prosperity.
This was stated by Punjab PPP secretary general Rana Aftab Ahmad while talking to the district office-bearers of various PPP wings here at a meeting on Thursday.
He said the PPP would take part in the general elections under new manifesto which was being prepared according to suggestions and recommendations of the activists and party sympathizers.
He claimed that Ms Bhutto had directed the party high command to reactivate the party at grassroots level so that better results could be achieved in the elections.
He said her statement on Kashmir was misquoted by some vested interests. Rana Aftab said the Kashmir dispute could only be resolved through ballot and not bullet. Pakistan and India were bound to act according to the Simla Accord.
He claimed that the military rulers preferred dialogue with Indian government on Kashmir instead of war.
He said Pakistan was in the grip of economic, political and international crisis and only a genuinely elected government could resolve them.
The meeting was also addressed by district president Chaudhry Ilyas, divisional coordinator Raja Riaz Ahmad, Salim Jahangir Chattha, Chaudhry Tasnim Elahi, Rai Ijaz Ahmad, Ghulam Mustafa Bajwa and Shahdat Ali Khan Baloch.
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