LAHORE: The Punjab chapter chief of a banned organisation was nabbed while preaching on the New Campus of Punjab University on Monday.

Muslim Town police said the PU administration informed them that a man was motivating its students to join a banned outfit and also distributing ‘hate material’ among them at the fruit shop between hostels 14 and 15 soon after sunset.

Police reached the spot and arrested the man who identified himself as Shaheryar, a former student of a private university, hailing from Hyderabad.

During preliminary interrogation, Shaheryar said he had been living in a rented house at Mustafa Town, Wahdat Road. Pamphlets of banned outfit Hizbul Tehreer, urging the youth to wage a struggle against the government besides a laptop containing hate literature were also recovered from him.

Police claimed the arrested man had been one of the major leaders of the banned outfit in Punjab.

Published in Dawn, April 21st, 2015

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