KARACHI, Jan 14: Police conducted on Monday a scrutiny of people who had been picked up in the past couple of days in the city following a ban on religious extremist parties and began releasing some of them.

Sources in police said they had picked up more than 400 people in the city in the past couple of days. However, the official figure for arrests were 111 in Karachi and 333 in the whole of the province.

A senior police official had said that 25 offices of the Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, Tehreek-i-Jafferia Pakistan, Lashkar-i-Taiba and Jaish-i-Mohammed had been sealed in various parts of the city. The President had banned all of these organizations in his address to the nation on Saturday.

The DIG Karachi, Tariq Jamil, told Dawn that police detained around 120 people in the past couple of days, and they did not arrest any activist or seal any office of the banned organization on Monday.