The Punjab government arrested 12 people on Friday for their alleged involvement in anti-state activities, sources told Daily Times on Saturday. The sources said the arrested people were basically high profile sectarian activists who were identified by men already arrested after the bomb blasts in Silakot, Multan and Lahore. The arrested people are Hamza Bin Zubair and Hakeem Ehsanur Rehman of Lahore, Ghulam Ghaus, Zahid Iqbal, Shahid Iqbal, Sajid Naeem and Abdul Rauf of Rahimyar Khan, Mahmood Ali of Multan, Abubakar Mohammed Raza of Bahawalnagar, Mohammed Shiraz of Bahawalpur, Syed Abdullah of Gujranwala and Haji Mohammad Khamosh of Sheikhupura. The Punjab assistant inspector general of police (operations) had asked district police officers to arrest the activists. The arrest orders stated that they had been detained for six months on their involvement in anti-state activities. However, the sources said they had been detained as a part of an anti-sectarian drive. Another source said these people had been under watch for some time and the arrests had been made after the already arrested activists named them for their alleged involvement in the blasts.