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FAISALABAD, Dec 23: The activists and office-bearers of several major jihadi organizations have gone underground for fear of crackdown against them.
The regional and area offices and collection centres of almost all the organizations set up in various parts of the district were found locked on Saturday and there was nobody available to attend to telephone calls.
Steps by the government to ensure action against these groups have forced the representatives to confine themselves to the four walls of their houses. The pressure was escalated by the international forces after the attack on Indian parliament by some unknown people.
Signboards and hoardings installed at various points had already been removed by the law enforcing agencies on Friday night on the directive of federal interior ministry.
Sources told this correspondent that the federal government had directed the police to heighten security in all the districts to avoid any untoward incident.
They claimed lists of activists and leaders of these groups were being prepared by the secret agencies of the government and the federal government had already directed the district police chiefs to send a detailed list of mosques, madaris and training centres run by these groups.
UPLIFT SCHEMES: At least 110 uplift schemes will be completed at a cost of Rs125 million in the Faisalabad district during the current fiscal year under the Khushhal Pakistan Programme.
This was stated by district Nazim Chaudhry Zahid Nazir while presiding over a meeting of the district development committee here on Sunday.
He said 11 schemes of farm-to-market roads, six water supply schemes for rural areas, 29 schemes of maintenance of school buildings, 29 schemes for the provision of basic amenities to citizens, 20 schemes of pavements and construction of streets, six drainage schemes, two schemes of repairing and constructing roads and streets in rural areas and five garbage disposal schemes were included in the plan.
The meeting also approved a number of other schemes for the welfare of people.
Zila Nazim asked the authorities concerned not to allocate funds for filling earth during the uplift projects, saying it should be accomplished through community participation.
Mr Nazir decided to personally visit the sites of five uplift schemes of the Works Department for proper approval before the meeting.
District Coordination Officer Tahir Hussain also directed the heads of various departments to finalize development plans with the consultation of elected representatives in their respective areas.
The meeting also decided that all uplift schemes and plans would be completed within the stipulated period.
