Five more people added to the fourth schedule list in Pindi

One man on the list manages to slip out of the country

RAWALPINDI: Punjab home ministry has upgraded the fourth schedule list with the addition of five more residents from Rawalpindi over alleged links with proscribed organisations.

Official sources said that some 34 residents of the garrison city have been listed in the fourth schedule under National Action Plan (NAP) while the police and other law enforcing agencies have been directed to vigilantly observe and monitor their activities.

The government under the National Action Plan had prepared list of people known to have contacts with proscribed organisations. These people are kept under strict watch and required to report to police about their movement.

The fourth schedulers are bound to inform the police before leaving their area and they are not allowed to enter any sensitive building.

However, during scrutiny, the authorities discovered that a suspect on the fourth schedule list, Nadeem Yousuf, managed to flee to Russia. Later, the Cantonment station police also registered a case against the suspect under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

The suspect’s brother, Muhammad Zahoor, endorsed this information Yousuf has slipped out of the country and was now in Russia. Police have started the investigation of the case.

Meanwhile, after the incident, the home department has been recommended to confiscate passports of all suspects nominated in the list to prevent them from leaving abroad, however, sources said that the related authorities have not reached to a decision regarding it. 

Published in The Express Tribune, June 16^th, 2019.