Police directed to closely monitor banned outfits

Tell SHOs to strictly monitor movements of people in fourth schedule

RAWALPINDI: City police chief has directed the force to closely monitor banned organisations operating under changed names for collecting hides on Eidul Azha.

Hides of sacrificial animals are collected and sold for generating funds for purposes as per shariah. However, some of these funds have been going into coffers of proscribed organisations causing concerns for the law enforcers and security agencies.

“A grand operation will be launched against banned organisations ahead of Eidul Azha,” he saod chairing a meeting of police officers.

City Police Officer (CPO) Faisal Rana chaired a meeting of police officials at Police Lines on Saturday and ordered to keep a vigilant eye on all banned organisations and those named in the fourth schedule. He instructed that no one listed in the fourth schedule should be allowed to move away from his residence ahead of Eid.



The CPO clearly ordered that banned organisations would not be allowed to collect hides whereas the violators would be arrested immediately.

He said that people spreading hate speech and hateful agendas on social media would face action under Anti-Terrorism Act of National Action Plan (NAP) while the police would not waste a second to register cases against such individuals.

He said that it was a challenging task to maintain peace during Eidul Azha and Moharram and the police have already started working on it.

The CPO said that the police was required to work round-the-clock to ensure peace in the city and for this purpose leaves of policemen would be suspended on both occasions.

He said police will keep liaison with intelligence agencies for sharing information in order to leave no room for miscreants to destroy city’s peace.

Rana said that it was essential to abolish not just the crime but its sources too.

No negligence or laxity would be tolerated under the current circumstances and security agencies must utilize all-out resources for keeping peace, he said.

The CPO said that peace committees should be operational to ensure that community and police are the same page against the criminal elements of the society. 

Published in The Express Tribune, July 21^st, 2019.