BAHAWALPUR, Nov 17: As many as 13 more offices of the banned religious outfits were sealed and their record seized on Monday.
The total number of offices sealed in the district raised to 14. They are six each of Khuddamul Islam (formerly Jaish-i-Muhammad) and Millat-i-Islamia (formerly Sipah-i-Sahaba) and two of Islami Tehrik-i-Pakistan (formerly Tehrik-i-Jafria Pakistan). These offices were located in Hasilpur, Khairpur Tamewali, Ahmadpur East, Uch Sharif and Head Rajkan.
However, none of the activists was arrested from the offices.
Khuddamul Islam chief Maulana Masood Azhar is yet to be arrested. The law-enforcers are in search of him.
The Maulana escaped when police raided his house on Saturday night. His guards said he had left for Karachi.
Meanwhile, his brother Jahangir, who was taken into custody by police on Sunday night, was also released.
STRIKE: Students took out a rally on Monday again to press for the acceptance of their demand of changing the pattern of question papers for the first year class.
Marching through different city roads, students of the Government Degree College, Baghdad Road, also demonstrated outside the DCO office and raised slogans.
Later, a delegation of students called on DCO Imran Ahmed who assured them that their demands would be conveyed to the government. The students dispersed on this assurance.
On Saturday, the SE College students had observed a strike.
Meanwhile, Dawn learnt that Punjab Education secretary Khushnood Akhtar Lashari had convened a meeting of the Punjab’s eight BISEs on Nov 19 to review the examination system from class nine to 12 in the province.
Special secretaries, colleges and schools, will also attend the meeting to see the examination systems of these classes in other provinces as well and the Federal board of intermediate and secondary education’s pattern.
It will focus on students’ demand to restore the ‘choice’ of 50 per cent questions in the first year examination.
The issue of objective questions will also be discussed after which recommendations would be send to the chief minister to remove differences between the pattern of question papers of Punjab’s boards and that of the federal board.
