At least two seminaries and property belonging to proscribed Jama’at-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Falah-i-Insaniyat (FIF) were taken over by the Government in a fresh crackdown launched by the law enforcement agencies under the National Action Plan (NAP) on March 5, reports Dawn. Major actions were taken in Chakwal and Attock Districts after the additional chief secretary of Punjab in a meeting with commissioners and divisional police heads via a video link directed the officials concerned to take over the property. In a subsequent operation, the seminaries of JuD situated in Chakwal — Madrassa Khalid Bin Waleed in the Talagang area and Madrassa Darus Salam on Chakwal’s Railway Road — along with their staff were placed at the disposal of Auqaf (endowment) department. Following the Punjab government directives, administrators were appointed at the seminaries to take over their control.
According to sources, three properties owned by the JuD and FIF were spotted in Attock District during a fresh survey conducted by a divisional intelligence committee on February 27. Subsequently, the management and operational control of the properties were taken over by the District administration of Attock. They were Madrassa and Masjid Musab Bin Umair in Peoples Colony, Attock. It was an under-construction structure spread over 13-anal area and its monthly expenditures were Rs60,000. It was taken over by the chief executive officer of the Attock District education authority. An ambulance of FIF with a monthly running expenditure of PKR 48,000 was taken over by the district emergency office, Rescue 1122, Attock. Besides, Hasanabdal assistant commissioner confiscated a 17-marla plot of the organisation on Ahmed Din Khan Road and a Passo car bearing a registration plate of Islamabad with monthly expenditure of Rs18,000.
Further, the Punjab Government also took over the administrative control of Al-Noor Masjid and sealed a religious seminary adjacent to the mosque in Sialkot District, reports Dawn. A team of local officials along with a large contingent of Police, led by Assistant Commissioner Waqar Akbar Cheema, sealed Madrassah Abdullah Bin Mubarak and took over administrative control of Masjid Al-Noor in Mundeyki Goraya village near Daska. Both establishments were said to be the local headquarters of Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM). The local administration of Daska also fixed banners on the gates of the mosque and seminary mentioning taking over of their official control by the Punjab Government. Sialkot District Peace Committee Chairman Hafiz Muhammad Asghar and Auqaf department Administrator Shahid Hameed Virk were also present on the occasion.