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India-Pakistan
'500 JI workers arrested across Punjab'
2007-09-26
About 500 Jamat-e-Islami (JI) workers and leaders have been arrested so far across Punjab in police raids, stated a press release issued by the Jamaat-e-Islami head office in Mansoora on Tuesday.

JI Punjab Naib Amir and MNA Mian Muhammad Aslam, JI Islamabad Amir Syed Muhammad Bilal, Shabab-e-Mili Punjab President Huma Ayub and Shabab-e-Mili Murree President Attaur Rehman Abassi and 40 party workers have been arrested, while 150 workers were arrested during a protest rally in NWFP, it said. According to the release, police arrested JI leader Dr Kamal, Dr Anwarul Haq, Major (r) Azam, Sufi Abdul GhafoorÂ’s son in his absence and 100 workers from Rawalpindi; JI leader Malik Abdur RaufÂ’s brother from Kahuta city; five JI workers from Attock; two workers from Bhakkar; JI District Amir Waris and party workers from Khushab; JI leader Amir Zubair Gondal from Bhalwal; Ahmad Yar Kalyar from Sahiwal; Umar Farooq from Kot Momin; three workers from Rahim Yar Khan; 10 workers from Layyah; 10 workers from Faisalabad; and dozens from Okara.
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