[DAWN] KARACHI: The Sindh government has asked Islamabad to provide it lists of the banned religious outfits, which are 're-emerging' with new nomenclature, in order to enable the provincial government to effectively curb their activities, it emerged on Sunday.Officials said the provincial home department had requested the federal ministry of interior to provide detailed lists and other related information about the activities of the banned
...the word
bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations, which had never become dormant despite having been slapped with repeated bans.
"Such organizations are not to be allowed [to hold] public gatherings or meetings. Action is being planned against such proscribed outfits which have re-emerged with new names or titles," said a bigwig in the home department while speaking to Dawn.
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At a recent briefing given to Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah, decisions were made to take action against office-bearers and activists of such organizations, said officials.
Three committees titled execution, intelligence and media, which were subservient to the so-called Apex Committee, had been entrusted the task to supervise the operations against such groups, they said. In a decision taken at the meeting, the provincial government asked the authorities concerned to regularly update data on such groups and individuals and share it with the National Counter-terrorism Authority (Nacta) and the provinces.
On their part, officials said, the provincial authorities had identified and listed 60 religious outfits in Sindh, 67 Death Eaters had been killed and 26 had been placed in durance vile
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
during three months of the current year.
They said the authorities had recovered 2,574 weapons in three months during action against illegal and legal weapons. To make it difficult for Death Eaters hiding in thickly populated areas of Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
, the Sindh government had notified the Sindh Information of Temporary Residence Ordinance 2015, however, more legislation was under way requiring tenant and buyer of a property to seek no-objection certificate from local administration including the cop shoppe concerned and utilities of gas and electricity, said officials.
Besides, Sindh has also decided to ask Islamabad to reactivate and establish links of Pakistain Automated Finger Identification System between provinces and Islamabad.
In addition, the National Database and Registration Authority had been asked to provide details of registered refugees residing in Karachi and other districts of Sindh, they said.
Media space to banned groups
Officials said the provincial government was taking measures to discourage media from giving space to individuals associated with the banned groups.
For this, they added, the media committee of the Apex Committee had held two meetings with its members and met once with the representatives of the cable operators and All Pakistain Newspapers Society.
"We are taking measures to ensure that media interviews of members of such banned organizations are discouraged," said an official.