Sindh Inspector General Mushtaq Ahmed Mahar in a notification issued today has instructed all police officers to ensure that Tableeghi Jamaat members across the province remain in the Jamaat marakiz (centres) and to consider all such marakiz as quarantine centres.

The notification also directs police officers to ensure that no person enters or leaves the premises of the centres. It also directs the superintendents of each district to cooperate with the district commissioners and health officers and provide rations and necessary items to the centres.

It further directs the police officers to make lists of all the Tableeghi Jamaat marakiz in their areas and the people inside and trace all the members outside, and to send their data to the operations room of the Inspector General of Police.

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