December 02, 2006	Saturday	Ziqa'ad 10, 1427

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FAISALABAD, Dec 1: Kotwali police registered a case against 40 MMA activists, including its divisional president, for staging a protest rally despite a ban here on Friday.

The rally was staged to protest the torture of Jamaat-i-Islami leaders during a long march on Thursday.

The rally, led by JI divisional coordinator Azeem Randhawa, began from Al Markaz-i-Islami, Chiniot Bazaar, and terminated at the starting point after passing through the Clock Tower Intersection.

The Kotwali SHO said JI’s Azeem Randhawa, district amir Akram Kharral, nazim Mehboob Zaman Butt, secretary-general Ghulam Abass and Shabab Milli district president Ijaz Qadir were also nominated in the FIR. He said no arrest had so far been made.

GUJRANWALA: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 sent 37 MMA activists to jail on judicial remand till Dec 9 here on Friday.

Reports said that the Civil Lines and A-Division police of Gujrat had arrested these activists, including Jamaat-I-Islami central vice-president Hafiz Idrees, for delivering speeches against the government on Thursday night and registered a case against them under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

Talking to reporters outside the court, the JI central vice-president alleged that the police had wrongfully implicated them in the terrorism case.

TOBA TEK SINGH: MMA activists on Friday demonstrated outside the district press club on Jhang Road against the arrest of their colleagues in Thursday’s Gujrat long march.

Talking to journalists, MMA district chief patron Mufti Aslam, JI district amir Dr Zahid Sattar, JUI district president Maulana Lutfullah and other leaders condemned the baton charge on peaceful MMA activists and demanded their immediate release.

BAHAWALPUR: Defying the ban on rallies and processions, the MMA leaders protested against the Women’s Protection Bill and the arrest of MMA activists in Lahore and other places on Thursday.

A protest rally was staged after Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid Al-Sadiq. It was led by MMA deputy parliamentary leader in the Punjab Assembly Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar.