Fourth Schedulers: K-P government action may hit snag

Authorities yet to obtain vital information of residents on watch list


Umer Farooq November 20, 2016

PESHAWAR: The federal government is likely to hit a snag as it attempts to move against individuals on the Fourth Schedule across the country, because the authorities concerned are yet to obtain vital information, including CNIC numbers, of at least 2,625 individuals from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

The list, regularly updated every two months, contains information on people belonging to different walks of life such as teachers, women members of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) as well as people repatriated from the Guantanamo Bay.

The list names four women, including three from Peshawar district. All of them are marked as associates of the banned TTP and kept under strict observation, but none of them had national identity cards.



It also contained names of as many as 12 individuals repatriated from Guantanamo Bay – two each from district Mardan and Abbottabad and one each from Swabi, Swat, Dir Upper, Kohistan, Bannu, Lakki Marwat districts and South Waziristan Agency.

The list also carries details of government employees and a large number of them were associated with the education sector, but staff of Wapda, fisheries, excise and taxation, oil and gas development, health, public health and police departments, FC, POF, PAF and religious seminaries.

Among 5,363 individuals, 4,573 belong to banned TTP, 455 to the defunct Sipah-e-Sahaba, Millat-e-Islami Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, 117 to Tehreek-e-Jafria Pakistan, Islami Tehreek Pakistan, Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan and Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen and 75 to Khuddamul Islam and Jaish-e-Muhammad.

The list also included names of 95 individuals repatriated from Afghanistan, 67 associated with the Tehreek-e-Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi, 20 of Harkatul Mujahideen, 12 of Lashkar-e-Taiba other than 103 criminals.

The list also contains detailed information, classified into three different categories: 1,403 in Category A, 1,968 in Category B and 612 in Category C while 1,380 individuals are yet to be categorised.

It also includes names of 74 persons who took part in recent local government elections. Most of them were elected as district and union council members and a few as councilors.

Police registered cases against 93 individuals on the list with 35 from Buner, 24 from Charsadda, 16 from Peshawar, four each from Nowshera and Swat, two each from Lower Dir and Abbottabad and one each from Mardan, Swabi and Karak. The list also carries information regarding eight individuals from Malakand Agency, two from South Waziristan Agency and a resident of Mohmand Agency.

Officials maintained that police was monitoring individuals on the list, and all such people were required to keep SHOs concerned informed about their whereabouts.

According to them, people on the list were not allowed to attend public places, including playgrounds and political gatherings. However, they said, these individuals were allowed to attend marriage ceremonies and funeral prayers of their relatives.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 21st, 2016.

 

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