PESHAWAR: Inspector General of Police, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Dr Mohammad Naeem Khan on Tuesday has said his department was reviewing the fourth schedule of the anti-terrorism act.
Talking to the reports in central police office Peshawar, Dr. Muhammad Naeem said: “we are rationalizing the fourth schedule as it has some unwanted names but doesn’t have those, which should be there.”
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The police chief said the department had developed proper criteria for putting names on the terror watch list. He said the fourth schedule, which had around the names of 3,700 people, including Afghan nationals, would be rationalized in two weeks.
Dr Naseem also said all district police officers would conduct review meetings in their respective areas, while the list would carry only the names allowed by section 11(EE) of the anti-terrorism act, 1997.
Section 11 of the law provides for keeping the names of individuals with terrorist and sectarian connections on a list called the fourth schedule.
Dr Naeem said the police had killed 21 high-profile terrorists associated with the Bali Khiara group in Dera Ismail Khan district during the last one year in a well-coordinated operation.
He said the Khiara group had been active in the areas bordering Punjab since terrorist Bali Khiara took over its reins for five years after the elimination of his predecessor in a US drone strike.
He said the group carried out 28 terrorist attacks last year but the ongoing crackdown carried out by security forces and police had almost halved the number. He said Bali Khiara was on the run but the police would capture him soon.
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Dr Naeem said land grabbing had become a big menace in the province, so the police had launched a major crackdown on it as well as usury and peddling of ice drug.
He said the police had identified 1,895 usurers, ice peddlers and land grabbers before compiling their criminal records for action. The IGP said 995 of those outlaws had so far been detained and 905 challaned.
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