Seminary run by Jaish-e-Mohammad in Sialkot sealed

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SIALKOT: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) sealed a mosque-cum-seminary and arrested 14 people in Mundeyki Goraya village on Thursday.

The mosque and seminary were being run by the defunct militant organisation Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM).

A senior official said that a contingent of CTD and police raided and sealed Jamia Masjid and Madressah Al-Noor located some 14km from Daska. The team detained 14 activists of the banned organisation but did not reveal their identities.

The official said that the record and printed material from the seminary were seized during the raid and people taken into custody were whisked away for interrogation.

Published in Dawn, January 15th, 2016

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Muhammad

Jan 15, 2016 07:32am

Keep up the good work. No place for extremism in Pakistan. No one has the right to kill someone based upon race, religion, gender, color of the skin or beliefs. That's what is Islam.

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Vikram

Jan 15, 2016 07:45am

The team detained 14 activists of the banned organisation but did not reveal their identities...........How banned organizations are freely doing business in Pakistan?

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M. Saeed Awan

Jan 15, 2016 08:09am

very good decision. Pak Govt's aim should not be to please India or Western countries but to clean dirt here. Our previous record shows how we isolated when we supported these elements.

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Angry Pitbull

Jan 15, 2016 08:15am

Pakistan is going in the very right direction , welcoming steps

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Soni

Jan 15, 2016 09:13am

On first place why dont you arrest the chief?

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Abbas Naqvi

Jan 15, 2016 09:29am

The crackdown should continue. Send a strong message to all groups working against the interests of Pakistand to weaken the country.

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mir aftab

Jan 15, 2016 09:43am

What this makes evident is that there still are quite a number of such outfits and instead of such cosmetic actions we need to manage this in a much improved manner.

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Jan 15, 2016 10:07am

@Zak Which students ..who are brainwashed and made against own independent and broadminded muslims and others ethnics groups. May be all the effected students be attend public schools.

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Ashok

Jan 15, 2016 10:29am

@Muhammad Hats off to you Mr.Muhammad! This line of thinking in both India & Pakistan will bring peace & prosperity to the talented,hardworking & gifted people of India & Pakistan. May your tribe increase!

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sbk

Jan 15, 2016 10:45am

@Zak , These children are saved. Join these students in a formal school.

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vinod

Jan 15, 2016 11:37am

still more to go but i am impress the way pakistan is handling this raheel sharif is not playing

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Ravi kant

Jan 15, 2016 11:46am

Very good.keep it up

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saurabh singh

Jan 15, 2016 11:53am

do not arrest the students to torture their family as they are innocent and immature and are learning what is taught to them. Instead put them in a good school and take care of their educational needs. Instead take action against the managers of such schools and punish them for playing with the lives of these innocent kids and the persons these kids may kill in future

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Jan 15, 2016 11:58am

@Ashok Well comment by both of you. It is time that there is peace in the sub continent. .for humanity sake and for younger generation.

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Jan 15, 2016 11:59am

@mir aftab Leave it to the Pakistani Rangers and they will do job as they are doing elsewhere.

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Zak

Jan 15, 2016 12:00pm

@pk I agree with you. They should have public school syllabi.

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suresh Deshpande

Jan 15, 2016 12:11pm

@Muhammad Dear just by saying this things won't change. There has to be a spontaneous loud cry from general public to check this menace, which is eating Pakistan now for decades. Can't see this suffering of the innocent.

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sukhera

Jan 15, 2016 12:49pm

@Soni .The chief is in custody.

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talat haque

Jan 15, 2016 12:55pm

These people have played a part in turning Sialkot into a violent place where people beat each other to death !

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Vasan

Jan 15, 2016 12:58pm

Good start. Action should be taken time to time. And authorities to verify all extremist suspicious teachings and give them warning to change system or face close down. But students from closed schools should be given good care and should be given alternative education which is good for their life skills.

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Ayesha

Jan 15, 2016 01:00pm

@Ashok thnks for wonderful thoughts for both nations

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Jan 15, 2016 02:24pm

Agree, these students deserve so much better than what these militants offer them, they deserve life in all its beauty and a chance to make it more beautiful not only for themselves but for others as well,

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M.waseem Akram

Jan 15, 2016 02:26pm

There is big quention mark on Punjab government that how did a bannd orgnization establish this seminary? We should not spare anyone who sperads terrorism.

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Parvez

Jan 15, 2016 03:01pm

.....and yet Maulana Azhar is being treated with kid gloves........ why ?

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M.ASIF

Jan 15, 2016 03:06pm

Its sad and surprising sad and surpring the banned outfits have freedom to operate. Siminaries are factories to brainwash the young and produce militants. Welcome step by the govt. We need to send a strong message to all groups and their supporters and financers once for all.

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Jackie

Jan 15, 2016 07:50pm

My understanding is that these organizations simply open up under a different name and then its business as usual. Will that be the case here? I hope not but if the past is an example then the writing is on the wall.

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