 The government has told heads of banks and other financial institutions countrywide to freeze the bank accounts of 42 members of the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA). Sources told Daily Times that the government has also ordered all home secretaries and provincial police officers, as well as the chief commissioner of Islamabad Capital Territory to constitute police parties to conduct raids and arrest these people. Sources said that the Ministry of Finance had forwarded these names to government and private sector banks and have also asked them to immediately inform the police if any of these people tried to make any transactions. |