ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad police have mentioned its Anti-Extremism Unit has “accomplished contacts” with all seminaries concerning not permitting strangers to reside at or spend the night time at mosques and madressahs.

In a publish on social media platform X (previously Twitter) on Thursday night time, it said, “There isn’t any permission to remain in mosques. Strangers won’t be allowed to remain at or spend the night time in mosques and madressahs.”

It didn’t elaborate any additional on what a “stranger” is.

With regard to opening seminaries, the police mentioned it had already issued directives on the matter. “The permission of the authorised our bodies is critical to open an academic establishment or madressah.”

The assertion quoted the capital police and the district administration appreciating the ulema and directors who abided by the regulation.

The transfer comes amid heightened terrorism within the nation in current months, particularly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, after the banned militant Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan ended its ceasefire with the federal government in November final 12 months.

Every week in the past, a suicide bomber ripped by means of a procession celebrating the beginning of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) on 12 Rabiul Awwal in Mastung, claiming the lives of greater than 50 individuals, together with a police officer, spiritual leaders, and youngsters.

No militant group has come ahead to say accountability for the bombing, prompting claims from the federal government that the Indian intelligence company, RAW, was concerned.

The identical day, a minimum of 5 individuals have been killed in twin bombings at a mosque inside a police station in KP’s Hangu.

The subsequent day, Chief of Military Workers Common Asim Munir had mentioned that the terrorists and facilitators behind the assaults on twelfth Rabiul Awwal have been “proxies of the enemies of Pakistan and its individuals”.

Earlier this month, knowledge compiled by the Pakistan Institute for Battle and Safety Research mentioned the variety of militant assaults in August was the best tally for month-to-month strikes in virtually 9 years.

The police directive additionally follows a crackdown on undocumented immigrants residing throughout the nation, a lot of whom are Afghan nationals, with an ultimatum given earlier this week to depart Pakistan by October 31, or else danger imprisonment and deportation to their respective nations.

The choice had been taken in an apex committee assembly headed by Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar and attended by COAS Gen Munir, amongst others. The committee additionally determined that motion throughout the border can be topic to passports and visas, whereas digital Afghan identification playing cards (or e-tazkiras) would solely be accepted till Oct 31.

After the passage of the deadline, the authorities will kickstart an operation concentrating on unlawful properties and companies owned by immigrants or these being run in collaboration with Pakistani nationals.

Following a harsh response from Afghan authorities — that the choice was unacceptable — the International Workplace had said a day in the past that the crackdown was not aimed toward any explicit ethnic group.

Interim International Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani additionally defended the transfer, saying that it was “in step with the worldwide observe”.

In the meantime, the Islamabad police had mentioned that out of 1,126 overseas nationals detained by the police, greater than 600 individuals have been in a position to produce their legitimate paperwork, after which the police officers allowed them to go dwelling.

It had added that to this point a minimum of 67 circumstances have been registered at totally different police stations and requested the general public to not hyperlink undocumented overseas nationals with legal actions.