ISLAMABAD – A police team was manhandled by men from a religious seminary after they were caught with a banner inscribed with slogans against a federal minister.
According to the sources, three separate cases have been registered over the issue of the defamatory banners at different police stations of the capital.
The banners, targeting Information Minister Pervaiz Rasheed, had been spotted at various points across the capital over the past week and called for his hanging, over his remarks where he termed seminaries “centres of illiteracy”.
According to the police, separate patrol teams found the banners in Aabpara and Sector F-11/1 and removed them after informing their superiors.
According to the FIRs lodged, the banners were put up by the Islamabad chapter of the Jamiat Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (JASWJ).
Later on Friday night, an Aabpara police team spotted motorcyclists near the F-6 Super Market carrying the same banners and tried to intercept them. The police party caught up with the fleeing men near the National Press Club and recovered the banners from them. All five motorcyclists and their vehicles were then taken into custody.
However, before police could take the men to lock-up, a couple of dozen men appeared at the spot and prevented the police party from leaving the scene. They threatened the police personnel and asked them to hand the five men over to them, saying that the policemen would be allowed to go on their way if they complied with the demand.
However, when the officials tried to contact their control room, a number of men attacked them and beat up a number of officials, including a sub-inspector, who was repeatedly punched and kicked to the ground.
A case was registered against the attackers at Kohsar police station, but no action has been taken so far.
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