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FAISALABAD, June 24: Another crackdown on foreigners illegally staying in the religious seminaries of the Punjab will be launched soon, it was learnt.
Official sources told Dawn on Monday that intelligence agencies were collecting details about accommodation facilities, links of students, presence of foreigners and source of incomes of all deeni madaris in the province.
The government had received reports that many foreigners had been staying in the deeni madaris without completing legal formalities and a large number of seminaries were receiving donations from other countries.
“Most foreigners are Afghans because they have no document or permit to reside in Pakistan,” source added.
The Interior Ministry decided that students belonging to Northern Areas would also be interrogated.
Source said that action would be taken against the heads of seminaries found involved in providing wrong information about the presence of actual number of students, their whereabouts, links with any militant groups and sources of income.
ALLEGATIONS: The district Nazim has been accused of ignoring the suggestions of elected members and recommendations of Standing Committee of Accounts and Finance of the district government for the preparation of annual budget.
The allegation was levelled by the Justice Forum Faisalabad (JFF), a body of local lawyers and some Nazimeen of union councils, in a statement issued here on Monday.
The JFF comprises Standing Committee of Accounts and Finance chairman Dilbar Hameed and members/Nazimeen Mian Saleem advocate, Shahid Mehmood advocate, Syed Mujahid Gilani, Malik Qaisar advocate, Chaudhry Abdul Sattar, Arif Jawed, Hashmat Barkat, Raheela Afzal and Robeena Shahab.
They alleged the annual budget was being prepared by the yes-men of district Nazim Zahid Nazir instead of members and chairmen of standing committees which was a clear violation of prescribed rules and regulations.
Standing committees, they said, had become “show-pieces” and members and chairmen had not so far been given their due rights. Proposals of the elected members were also not being included in the annual budget, they added.
They asked Punjab Governor Khalid Maqbool to direct the district Nazim to prepare annual budget under recommendations of the elected representatives.
MURDERED: A man allegedly murdered his wife on Sunday night by forcibly giving her acid at Chak 263-GB in the limits of Dijkot police station.
Ghulam Mustafa along with his brother Saleem forced Nasreen Bibi to take acid. She died immediately after taking the acid. The couple had fallen out over some domestic issue.
Some area people informed the police, but the accused managed to escape before the arrival of police.
KILLED: A motorcyclist was killed in a road mishap at Chak 215-RB in the limits of Saddar police station on Monday.
Abdul Salam was going to bazaar by his two-wheeler when a speeding tractor-trolley hit him. He fell on the ground and died on the way to hospital.
A case has been registered against the absconding driver.
