Arms licences issued to fourth schedulers cancelled in Punjab

Decision taken on recommendation of counter-terrorism police

RAWALPINDI: The Punjab government has cancelled licences for all types of weapons issued to people included in the Fourth Schedule of Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), 1977.

According to details, the provincial home department cancelled all arms licences issued to all the 16 persons on the list due to their links to the banned outfits.

The arms license of Mushtaq Hussain, Muhammad Ilyas, Rana Muhammad Ilyas, Abdul Latif, Khalid Mehmood, Aijaz Ahmed, Ghulam Bashir, Abdul Hamid Khalid, Haq Nawaz, Ahsanullah, Rana Mumrez Ali, Muhammad Asif Javed, Muhammad Abdullah, Muhammad Abuzar Naqi, Hafiz Muhammad Ahmed and Abdul Rasheed have been cancelled upon the recommendation of Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), reads a communique issued to all relevant authorities on Sunday.



Deputy Commissioner Rawalpindi Dr Umar Jahangir told the Express Tribune that the weapon licence gets cancelled after a person is placed in the Fourth Schedule list.

On December 15 last year, the federal government reinstated all 90,000 licences of the prohibited bore. The Ministry of Interior had cancelled these licences last year.

The ban was lifted for the army generals and equivalent army officers while the ban of non-prohibited bore had been lifted for civil officers and common people.

The notification by the Interior Ministry said the prohibited bore arms licences were cancelled on December 26, 2017. All the licences have been restored and they will be considered active now.