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Booksellers warned to remove hate material from shops
The administration has set one week deadline for booksellers to voluntarily remove material spreading sectarian hatred in the society after which a crackdown will be carried out on those selling such literature.
Additional assistant commissioner Nisar Hussain, Iqrar Ali and Iftikhar Ahmed chaired a meeting of booksellers of the city and told them that in the light of orders by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government they had been asked to take stern legal action and curb the sale of hate material.
The orders shall be applicable to the CD shop owners who sell Jehadi material to people and brainwash them. They requested the booksellers and CD shop owners to inform them about the sources of such material so that the menace could be weeded out from society.
They said that the government had imposed a ban on sale of such material. They said that the society was already divided among various sects and it was need of the time to promote harmony and brotherhood.
They warned that after one week the shops violating the orders would be sealed and the owners would be arrested under the law.
The booksellers present at the meeting promised to help the government in identification of people spreading hatred and remove all the controversial material from their shops.
OUTLAWS ARRESTED: Police have arrested 2,231 alleged outlaws from different areas of Kohat district during their two-week campaign against anti-social elements and recovered weapons and explosives.
ASP Mansoor Aman told mediapersons on Friday that they had arrested nine proclaimed offenders and 222 alleged outlaws from different parts of the district and recovered weapons, drugs and explosives from their possession.
The seizure included 31 kilogrammes of explosive material, seven Kalashnikovs, one Kalakov, 37 pistols, nine shotguns, seven rifles, a hand grenade and 34 kilogrammes of hashish.
Mr Aman said that the police were interrogating the arrested persons to know about their plans.
Also, the police raided a house in Togh Bala village and arrested five alleged gamblers and took into custody the stake money of Rs26,900. The police registered a case and have sent them to prison on the court orders.
Booksellers warned to remove hate material from shops - DAWN.COM
The administration has set one week deadline for booksellers to voluntarily remove material spreading sectarian hatred in the society after which a crackdown will be carried out on those selling such literature.
Additional assistant commissioner Nisar Hussain, Iqrar Ali and Iftikhar Ahmed chaired a meeting of booksellers of the city and told them that in the light of orders by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government they had been asked to take stern legal action and curb the sale of hate material.
The orders shall be applicable to the CD shop owners who sell Jehadi material to people and brainwash them. They requested the booksellers and CD shop owners to inform them about the sources of such material so that the menace could be weeded out from society.
They said that the government had imposed a ban on sale of such material. They said that the society was already divided among various sects and it was need of the time to promote harmony and brotherhood.
They warned that after one week the shops violating the orders would be sealed and the owners would be arrested under the law.
The booksellers present at the meeting promised to help the government in identification of people spreading hatred and remove all the controversial material from their shops.
OUTLAWS ARRESTED: Police have arrested 2,231 alleged outlaws from different areas of Kohat district during their two-week campaign against anti-social elements and recovered weapons and explosives.
ASP Mansoor Aman told mediapersons on Friday that they had arrested nine proclaimed offenders and 222 alleged outlaws from different parts of the district and recovered weapons, drugs and explosives from their possession.
The seizure included 31 kilogrammes of explosive material, seven Kalashnikovs, one Kalakov, 37 pistols, nine shotguns, seven rifles, a hand grenade and 34 kilogrammes of hashish.
Mr Aman said that the police were interrogating the arrested persons to know about their plans.
Also, the police raided a house in Togh Bala village and arrested five alleged gamblers and took into custody the stake money of Rs26,900. The police registered a case and have sent them to prison on the court orders.
Booksellers warned to remove hate material from shops - DAWN.COM
