Dawn Report
ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: In a countrywide crackdown, the government detained several political leaders, lawyers and civil rights activists in their houses on Saturday to stop them from taking any action against the imposition of emergency.
In Islamabad, leading lawyers Aitazaz Ahsan, Ali Ahmed Kurd and Munir Malik were detained under the 3 MPO for 30 days each, and police were looking for other leaders, particularly Hamid Ali Khan, to pre-empt the legal fraternity’s reaction to the government move.
The crackdown forced many lawyers and political workers in the capital to go underground to avoid arrest.
PUNJAB: In Lahore, police raided the house of human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jehangir and put her under house arrest in Gulberg.
Another police team raided the residence of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan’s in Zaman Park, but he was not present there, police sources told Dawn. A police team was deployed outside his residence.
(However, Mr Khan told AFP by telephone he had been placed under house.
“Police entered my house in Lahore and told me that I have been placed under house arrest. They did not show me any detention order at all,” the AFP quoted Mr Khan as saying.)
A senior police officer of Lahore city police told Dawn on condition of anonymity that an operation had been launched to detain active members of the lawyers’ community and leaders of opposition political parties.
“We have updated lists of ‘trouble-makers’ and will act against them with the passage of time,” he said.
SINDH: Police arrested Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party (STPP) chairman Dr Qadir Magsi after a raid on his residence amid reports of similar raids on homes of senior politician Rasool Bux Palijo and other political leaders and activists in the district.
Confirming the arrest, an STPP spokesman said that Dr Magsi asked for arrest warrants but the DPO said he had ‘orders from above’ to arrest him.
A source in police said they had received directives to arrest political leaders. DPO Shaukat, however, denied reports of arrests.
“We are awaiting directives for arrests of some lawyers and nationalist leaders, but so far no directive has been received,” he told Dawn late Saturday night.But another police source said they had received directives to arrest all those leaders who had been in the forefront of the struggle for restoration of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.
BALOCHISTAN: Several political leaders and lawyers were arrested in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan on Saturday night.
Police sources told Dawn that Pashtoonkhwa Mili Awami Party Chairman Mehmood Khan Achakzai, BNP Secretary General Habib Jalib, Kachjol Ali advocate and Mir Akhtar Hussain Lango had been arrested.
The sources said police also arrested former MNA of BNP Rauf Mengal former MPA Mir Akbar Mewngal, Balochistan High Court Bar Association President Manzoor Lango, Hadi Shakeel Ahmed, Andul Qahir advocate and Khalid Khan advocate.
The sources said that police also raided houses of several lawyers and political leaders but they were not present at their homes.
Meanwhile, the personnel of the Frontier Corps were deployed at all important places in the provincial capital late Saturday night while contingents of FC patrolled the city.
http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/04/top11.htm
ISLAMABAD, Nov 3: In a countrywide crackdown, the government detained several political leaders, lawyers and civil rights activists in their houses on Saturday to stop them from taking any action against the imposition of emergency.
In Islamabad, leading lawyers Aitazaz Ahsan, Ali Ahmed Kurd and Munir Malik were detained under the 3 MPO for 30 days each, and police were looking for other leaders, particularly Hamid Ali Khan, to pre-empt the legal fraternity’s reaction to the government move.
The crackdown forced many lawyers and political workers in the capital to go underground to avoid arrest.
PUNJAB: In Lahore, police raided the house of human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jehangir and put her under house arrest in Gulberg.
Another police team raided the residence of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf chairman Imran Khan’s in Zaman Park, but he was not present there, police sources told Dawn. A police team was deployed outside his residence.
(However, Mr Khan told AFP by telephone he had been placed under house.
“Police entered my house in Lahore and told me that I have been placed under house arrest. They did not show me any detention order at all,” the AFP quoted Mr Khan as saying.)
A senior police officer of Lahore city police told Dawn on condition of anonymity that an operation had been launched to detain active members of the lawyers’ community and leaders of opposition political parties.
“We have updated lists of ‘trouble-makers’ and will act against them with the passage of time,” he said.
SINDH: Police arrested Sindh Taraqqi Pasand Party (STPP) chairman Dr Qadir Magsi after a raid on his residence amid reports of similar raids on homes of senior politician Rasool Bux Palijo and other political leaders and activists in the district.
Confirming the arrest, an STPP spokesman said that Dr Magsi asked for arrest warrants but the DPO said he had ‘orders from above’ to arrest him.
A source in police said they had received directives to arrest political leaders. DPO Shaukat, however, denied reports of arrests.
“We are awaiting directives for arrests of some lawyers and nationalist leaders, but so far no directive has been received,” he told Dawn late Saturday night.But another police source said they had received directives to arrest all those leaders who had been in the forefront of the struggle for restoration of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.
BALOCHISTAN: Several political leaders and lawyers were arrested in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan on Saturday night.
Police sources told Dawn that Pashtoonkhwa Mili Awami Party Chairman Mehmood Khan Achakzai, BNP Secretary General Habib Jalib, Kachjol Ali advocate and Mir Akhtar Hussain Lango had been arrested.
The sources said police also arrested former MNA of BNP Rauf Mengal former MPA Mir Akbar Mewngal, Balochistan High Court Bar Association President Manzoor Lango, Hadi Shakeel Ahmed, Andul Qahir advocate and Khalid Khan advocate.
The sources said that police also raided houses of several lawyers and political leaders but they were not present at their homes.
Meanwhile, the personnel of the Frontier Corps were deployed at all important places in the provincial capital late Saturday night while contingents of FC patrolled the city.
http://www.dawn.com/2007/11/04/top11.htm
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