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One Dawa activist arrested, 39 still untraced

By Imran Asghar

RAWALPINDI: Rawalpindi police have detained only one activist of Jamaatud Dawa (JD) during crackdown on the proscribed Jihadi outfit, whose 39 activists still remained untraced.

According to an official report on the crackdown seen by Daily Times, after a ban on the outfit was pronounced on suspicion of its involvement in Mumbai attacks, the police sealed JD’s five offices in Rawalpindi City, Jhelum and Attock.

Forty JD activists were named in the report, whereas the police had succeeded in arresting only Col (r) Nazir from his residence in Chaklala Scheme III for three months. The report said 13 JD activists belonged to Rawalpindi City, 12 Jhelum, 11 Attock and four Chakwal. In Rawalpindi, it said, the police sealed a JD office being run in Madressa Markaz Khudaibia Chakra in Westridge area and the other on Jamia Masjid Circular Road. In Jhelum, the police sealed Central JD Office. Central JD Office was also sealed in Attock in the limits of City Police Station. A police official said noose had been tightened around them and they would soon be arrested. He said the police and other law enforcement agencies were sharing intelligence and plainclothes officials were also keeping an eye on the sealed offices.

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