Police shut down offices of Jamaatud Dawa and arrested scores of operatives as it continued a crackdown against the banned group on Friday, officials said.Islamabad Police sealed three offices of Jamaatud Daawa on Friday. One was near Masjid Quba in the I-8 Markaz and another in Street 35 in G-6/4, Chief Commissioner Kamran Lashari said. No arrests were made. Officials said the group had abandoned its G-6 office before the police raid. Later on Friday, police raided and sealed another office located on Korri Road near Shahzad Town, and arrested six suspected operatives.
NWFP: Jamaatud Dawa officials in Peshawar said police had arrested 150 operatives in a province-wide operation and sealed 46 offices. Many workers have gone underground.
Police closed the Jaamatud Dawa headquarters at Peshawar's Fawara Chowk late on Thursday. No arrests were made.
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.
Police raided an office, two schools and a religious seminary run by Jamaatud Dawa in Muzaffarabad, and placed its leader Abdul Aziz Alvi under house arrest.
Rawalpindi: In Rawalpindi, police and other agencies sealed five offices of Jamaatud Dawa -- in Satellite Town, Kashmari Bazaar, Benazir Bhutto Road, Pindora and Tench Bhatta -- sources in the police said, but did not make any arrests.
Lahore: In Lahore, divisional superintendents of police took surety bonds from the Jamaatud Dawa operatives, police sources told Daily Times.
The Interior Ministry had issued detention orders for JD chief Hafiz Saeed, Ameer Hamza, Yahya Mujahid and Abu Umer Qazi. Saeed has been put under house arrest. The name of a second detained leader could not be confirmed. Police continued to search for the other two on Friday.
Multan Police sealed a JD office at Rasheedabad Chowk, and a school and a dispensary on Tareen Road in a midnight operation.
Police also sealed Jamaatud Dawa offices in south Punjab cities of Bahawalpur, Rahim Yar Khan, Rajanpur, Arifwala, Bahawalnagar, Khanewal, and held one operative each from Arifwala and Rajanpur.
Sindh: In Sindh, officials said they had arrested 11 operatives of the banned group and sealed six offices and six seminaries, but Jamaatud Dawa officials claimed 100 operatives had been held and 35 offices sealed.
"Seven of the men and two of the seminaries belonged to Karachi," Sindh Special Secretary Collin Kamran Dost told Daily Times. Law enforcement agencies sealed a Jamaatud Dawa office and a library on New Zarghoon Road in Quetta late on Thursday. No arrests were made.