September 19, 2008	Friday	Ramazan 18, 1429

TOBA TEK SINGH, Sept 18: A special anti-terrorism court of Faisalabad on Thursday set on bail 11 students of some Toba Tek Singh’s seminaries, who were arrested a month ago from a bus near Mianwali en route Waziristan as suspected terrorists.

Reports said the students were going to Waziristan to join the Taliban at war with Pakistan’s security agencies when the Mianwali police arrested them and handed them over to the local police.

To claim credit, the local police showed their arrest from Toba Tek Singh and the city police registered a case under section 11-V of Anti-Terrorism Act against religious leader Maulana Muteeur Rehman Abbassi of Madressah Arabia Islamia, Talab Bazaar, on the charge of preparing the 11 teenagers to go to Waziristan to help the Taliban.

According to the FIR registered on the complaint of ASI Saleem, when he visited the seminary in plainclothes, Maulana Muteeur Rehman was addressing the students and was convincing them to go to Waziristan. He quoted the Maulana as saying that Pakistani security agencies were killing the people in Waziristan on the directions of America.

The arrested students named in the FIR included Noman, Sajjad, Waqas, Yasir, Nasrullah, Ijaz, Aslam, Ashraf Majeed and Abdul Mughees.