August 19, 2008	Tuesday	Sha’aban 16, 1429

TOBA TEK SINGH, Aug 18: The City police on Monday registered a case against a cleric Maulana Mateeur Rehman Abbassi and 10 students of Madressah Arabia Islamia, Talaab Bazaar, on charges of sending students of his seminary to Waziristan to help Taliban militants fight against Pakistani security forces.

According to FIR under Section 11-V of Anti-Terrorism Act, complainant Saleem, an assistant sub-inspector, said that when he visited the seminary in plain clothes, Maulana Abbasi was speaking to students and encouraging them to proceed to Waziristan to join Taliban’s fight against security forces.

The students who have been booked are Noaman, Sajjad, Waqas, Yasir, Nasrullah, Ijaz, Noaman Aslam, Ashraf Majeed, Ashraf and Abdul Mughees.

The Mianwali police had arrested on Saturday 14 students of Toba seminaries who were going to Waziristan and handed them over to Toba police on Sunday. But, the FIR registered on Monday against 10 students out of 14 shows that they were arrested from Toba.

The police, however, were reluctant to tell the whereabouts of 14 arrested students from Mianwali.

CRACKDOWN: DCO Chaudhry Muhammad Ashraf on Monday raided dozens of private clinics and medical stores in a crackdown on quacks and spurious medicines sellers.

He found that injections originally manufactured for animals were being sold for humans’ consumption.

He ordered Health EDO Dr Masood Iqbal Bukhari to immediately seal the 26 medical stores involved in the sale of spurious injections.

The sealed medical stores include 10 of Toba tehsil, 11 of Gojra and four of Kamalia tehsil.