PESHAWAR, March 20: Haripur district administration banned on Tuesday the entry of about 42 religious leaders into the limits of Haripur from Wednesday.
Their entry was banned by the district Nazim, Haripur, Dr Raja Amer Zaman, through an order issued under section 5(1)A of the West Pakistan Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance 1960.
The order says the step has been taken to ensure public safety, particularly in view of maintaining tranquillity during Muharram as these persons appeared to be in the habit of delivering provocative sectarian speeches, which spread feelings of enmity and hatred among Sunnis and Shias.
Those whose entry has been banned are: Maulana Azim Tariq, Jhang; Maulana Abdul Hafeez Jhangvi, Jhang; Maulana Mohammad Yousuf, Jhang; Maulana Ziaul Qasmi, Faisalabad; Maulana Ali Sher Haidri, Sindh; Maulana Abdus Salam, Wah Cantt; Maulana Mohammad Rabbani, Layya; Maulana Abdul Hai, Mansehra; Maulana Luqman Ali Puri, Muzaffarabad; Maulana Abdul Hayat Abidi, Lahore; Maulana Ghulam Hassan, Jhara (D.I.Khan); Maulana Mohammad Ramzan, Tauqeer (D.I.Khan); Maulana Mehmood Raza, TNJ Chakwal; Maulana Qamar Haider Javed Zaidi, Rawalpindi; Maulana Raza Hussain Shah, Rawalpindi; Riaz Hussain Shah Naqvi, Rawalpindi; Imran Bukhari, Attock; Qifayat Hussain Naqvi, Muzaffarabad; Qari Mohammad Aslam, Peshawar; Maulana Abdul Wajid Hazarvi, Rawalpindi; Syed Chiraghuddin Shah, Rawalpindi; Maulana Ijaz Hussain Shah Kazmi, Sargodha; Maulana Mohammad Suleman, Wah Cantt; Maulana Daud Shah, Gujranwala; Maulana Abdul Manan, Gujranwala; Maulana Hafiz Mohammad Siddique, Attock; Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haqqani, Multan; Maulana Tayyab Madni, Wah Cantt; Maulana Mohammad Tahir, Havelian; Maulana Mazhar Hussain Tauqeer, Havelian; Maulana Mohammad Bashir, Taxila; Zakir Tawakal Hussain Tawakal, Faisalabad; Maulana Zulfiqar Ali Naqvi, Karachi; Maulana Abdul Aziz Shah, Havelian; Raza Shah Naqvi, Rawalpindi; Javed Rashdi, Rawalpindi; Prof Muzaffar Hussain Tauqeer, Havelian; Prof Muzaffar Abidi, Lahore; Zahirul Ashadi, Lahore; Fayyaz Hussain Shah, D.I.Khan; Syed Hassan Ali Kazmi, D.I.Khan; and Ijaz Hussain Kazmi, Sarghodha.
