DERA ISMAIL KHAN, March 8: Senior Superintendent of Police Usman Zakria has banned the entry of 50 speakers and Zakireen into the limits of the district during Muharramul Harram, says a press note issued here on Saturday.

They included: Shajar Hussain (Mandi Bahauddin), Prof Fariq Hussain (Lahore), Rahim Bakhsh (D.G.Khan), Fazal Hussain Alvi (Jhang), M. Tawakal Hussain Rizvi (Faisalabad), M. Ghulam Abbas Najfi (Jhang), Tajuddin Haidri (Gujranwala), M. Shabbir Hussain, (Hafizabad), S. Abbas Naqvi (Lahore), Zamir Baqir, (Kalur Kot), Malik Ejaz (Khushab), M. Aslam Khichi (Darya Khan), M. Yahya Farooqi (Bhakkar), M. Qazi Bashir (D.G.Khan), Abdul Ghaffar (Taunsa Sharif), M. Allah Wassaya (Jhang), M. Kifayatullah (Layyah), M. Sultan Mehmood (Jhang), M. Hassan Asghar (Lahore), M. Attaullah Shah (Gujrat), M. Sher Mohammad Siyalvi (Faisalabad), M. Fatehuddin Chishti (Multan), M. Abdul Rauf Chishti (Jhang), Hussain Sabzwari (Jhang), M. Faqir Jamil (Faisalabad), M. Mohammad Taunsvi (Jhang), M. Ahmed Saeed (Multan), M. Qazi Abdul Latif (Shujaabad), M. Abdul Sattar Zia (Punjab), M. Shafiqur Rehman Darkhawsti (Kamalia), M. Yar Mohammad Abdi (Bahawalnagar), M. Hassan Asghari (Multan), M. Abdullah Zia (Kamalia), M. Mazhar Abbas alias Bijli (D.G. Khan), M. Mohammad Ramzan Naqshbandi (Multan), M.S. Agha Ali Musvi (Lahore), M. Taqishah (Multan), M. Iftikhar

Naqvi (Mari Indus), M. Mansoor Ahmed Paracha (Kohat), Ghulam Hussain Raza

Musvi (Lahore), Mohammed Fazal Husain (Chakwal),

M. Mohammed Rafiq (Faisalabad), Allama Nasir Kazmi, Thokar Niaz Baig (Lahore), M. Ali Sher Haidri (Khairpur), M. Gulfam Hashmi (Lahore), Prof Abdul Hakim Butarabi (Hyderabad), M. Abdul Ghafoor Haqani (Bhakkar), Sheikh Hakim Ali (Jhang), M. Abdul Ghafoor Haqani (Shujaabad) and M. Attaur Rehman Farooq (Samandri, Faisalabad). —APP

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