Information About Incident 36195-68487-162842 in Peshawar Pakistan

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In the NWFP, JuD officials in Peshawar said Police had arrested 150 operatives in a province-wide operation and sealed 46 offices, Daily Times reported.

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• Meta Location: NWFP Peshawar
• Matched District: Peshawar
• Actgroup: arrest
• Actor: Police
• Subject: 150 operatives

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In the NWFP, JuD officials in Peshawar said Police had arrested 150 operatives in a province-wide operation and sealed 46 offices, Daily Times reported. But Dawn reported that over 181 activists were arrested and 46 offices sealed across the Frontier on December 11. Many workers have reportedly gone underground, according to Daily Times. Police closed the Da awa headquarters at Peshawar s Fawara Chowk late on December 11. However, no arrests were made. The Frontier Police also closed down offices of the banned Al Akhtar Trust and Al Rashid Trust in the Saddar, Hashtnagri, Gulbahar and Yakatoot areas of the city and in the rest of the province. JuD spokesman Attiq-ur-Rehman Chohan told reporters outside the sealed office at Fawara Chowk in Peshawar that workers were arrested from offices in Mardan, Mansehra, Abbottabad, Haripur, Malakand, Swabi and other Districts of NWFP. He claimed the crackdown would deprive over 400,000 people displaced by the military operation in Bajuar Agency of food, medicines and other items.

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