Remarks about CE: leaders booked

Published November 20, 2001

KOHAT, Nov 19: The police have booked prominent leaders of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (S), Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan and Jamaat-i-Islami for passing derogatory remarks against President Gen Pervez Mushrraf and Pakistan army at a public meeting here on Monday.

The city police station registered FIR against Mohammad Fida Saadi, member of central shoora of Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan, Qari Obaidullah of Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan and Qari Fateh Mohammad, district amir of Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (S) under 16 MPO, 153 and 124 but had failed to arrest any one of them till filing of this report.

These leaders had warned during the public meeting that if any harm was caused to the detained leaders of Defence of Pakistan and Afghanistan Council, the whole responsibility of the consequences would rest with the army.

Meanwhile, the opposition leader in the Kohat assembly, Syed Mahtab ul Hassan, who was arrested by the police for blocking the Kohat-Hangu road to protest the kidnapping of a school teacher had been shifted to Dera Ismail Khan under 6 MPO.

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