FAISALABAD, Oct 13: The local police on Wednesday freed the two seminary students who were taken into custody for roaming in a Church without permission and for their suspected activities.
Police sources said that a special team headed by People's Colony ASP interrogated Akhtar Hussain (21) of Swat and Gul Shereen (20) of Peshawar, students of Madressah Darulaloom, Batala Colony. Findings of the five days investigation suggested that they had no links with any terrorist outfit and their presence in the church was incidental.
The investigators found that both the students had entered the Church last Friday just to see the building and to roam in the open parks of the adjacent school. The police also contacted the authorities in Swat and Peshawar for checking and monitoring of their backgrounds.
Both the students were handed over to the seminary management where they had been studying for the last one month. They had entered the main Church of Warispura and started roaming in the school adjacent to the worship place. The security guard had overpowered both the students and informed the area police that two suspected youths had been caught while trying to plant a bomb.
STRIKE: Hundreds of shopkeepers of D-Grounds area would observe shutter down strike on Thursday to protest what, they said, ill-conceived policies of the Tehsil Municipal Administration about parking.
The decision had been taken at a meeting of the D-Grounds Traders Association on Wednesday. The meeting was informed that the TMA had introduced a way of traffic and designed the plan against wishes and business interests of the shopkeepers.
The meeting was further told that the shopkeepers had tried their best to force the TMA to change the decision about the traffic and style of parking at the only recreational point of the city. But all their efforts proved futile due to indifference of the authorities.
The meeting observed that the district police officer had assured the shopkeepers that their demands were genuine and would be accepted in the larger interest of their business as well as security. But the TMA authorities refused to accept the proposal of the local police as well.
