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MANSEHRA: Mansehra police have booked 12 clerics on charges of instigating people to create a law and order situation during Eid Miladun Nabi.

Police said FIR was lodged by SHO city police Mohammad Khursheed Tanoli after meetings of district coordination officer, district police officer and representatives of other law enforcement agencies the other day.

In the first information report, SHO Khursheed Tanoli stated that leaders of certain groups delivered hate speeches and instigated people to attack opponents on Karakoram Highway.

The FIR also revealed that one of the groups blocked KKH for over eight hours causing inconvenience and disturbance for passengers and other people at Ghazikot.

Maulana Faizul Bari, Maulana Abdul Munan, Maulana Shafiqueur Rehman and Maulana Aftab of Sunari Mosque group were booked under sections 341, 427, 147 and 149 of Pakistan Penal Code.

While Umer Farooq Saeedi, Saleem Qadri, Maulana Habibul Malik, Maulana Qudratullah Qadri, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Salkheen, Nazar Shah and Mohammad Altaf of rival group were booked under sections 341, 147, and 149 of the PPC. But, so far no arrests have been made.

Meanwhile, DCO Mansehra imposed ban on use of loudspeakers except Azan and Friday sermons in the district.

Ban enforced

The district administration on Tuesday again banned concrete construction in red zone areas of Balakot.

“Any person violating ban on any construction activity in red zone areas of Balakot and Garlat union councils should be punished under section 188 of Pakistan Penal Code,” said a notification issued by Dr Amber Ali Khan, DCO Mansehra.

The government had imposed ban on concrete construction in Balakot and Garlat union councils after national and international seismologists and geologists declared Balakot as red zone and asked government to relocate people from Balakot to any other place.

The TMO Balakot was asked for legal proceedings against the violators of the notification.

The government had started a mega housing project of New Balakot City near Mansehra with Rs14 billion in 2007 to relocate people of Balakot but the project is in doldrums because of the negligence of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority.