JuD barricades removed

Lahore, Feb. 12: Acting on the orders of Pakistan’s Supreme Court, police on Monday removed the barricades placed by the members of the banned Jamaatud Dawah outside the group’s headquarters here in the name of security after over a decade.

Chief Justice Saqib Nisar had ordered the Punjab police to open all roads blocked in the name of security in Lahore. “If you fail to submit a compliance report, the court will decide your fate. You are not going to stay as the IG even if the chief minister wants to retain you,” Justice Nisar has warned the Inspector General of Police on Sunday.

Deputy inspector general ( Lahore) Dr Haider Ashraf on Monday told PTI that police had removed blockades from some 16 places including the JuD headquarters on the order of the apex court.

He said that police have also removed road blockades outside the residences of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif, Canada- based cleric Dr Tahirul Qadri and slain governor Salmaan Taseer.