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CPO warns banned outfits against hide collection
From Our Correspondents
MULTAN: Warning banned outfits against hide collection on Eidul Azha, City Police Officer Muhammad Azhar Akram has directed the district police to take stern action and arrest their activists found, openly or secretly, collecting hides of sacrificial animals.
In a statement here on Thursday, he said that intelligence agencies had shared reports that the banned outfits were planning to activate their cells for hide collection on Eidul Azha. He said lists of banned outfits had been provided to all police stations. He said the banned outfits were working under new names.
The CPO said the police had adopted strict security measures to avoid any untoward incident during Eid holidays. He ordered special security measures around ‘A’ category mosques and Imambargahs. He ordered the police to keep a vigilant eye on the Schedule-IV persons and ensure their monitoring round-the-clock.
Azhar also directed the police to take stern action against one-wheelers. He expressed his dissatisfaction over police performance regarding implementation of the ban on kite flying and ordered the police to launch a crackdown on kite flyers.
PAKPATTAN: DCO Javed Akhtar Mahmood under Section 144 has banned collection of hides of sacrificial animals unlawfully and forcibly.
He said that the defunct organisations would not be allowed to establish their camps and collect hides from the people. He, however, said that charity organisations having NOCs of the district administration were allowed to collect hides. Meanwhile, DPO Shah Nawaz said that police had taken strict security measures to avoid any untoward incident during Eid holidays.