CTD wants properties of 66 suspects frozen.

MULTAN -- The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) has asked the district authorities to freeze the properties of 66 people whose names are on the fourth schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997.

Sources told Dawn that the CTD had written a letter to the deputy commissioner in the first week of this month, recommending freezing of 16 properties owned by 15 people whose names are in the fourth schedule list. Earlier, it had sought similar action against 51 other suspects.

The suspects are Engineer Muhammad Ishfaq, Qari Muhammad Arif, Saifur Rehman, Syed Anwar Ali Shah, Arif Saeed, Maulana Khalil Ahmed Asad, Muhammad Sharif, Qari Tayyab, Abu Bakar Siddique, Muhammad Afzal, Abdul Hameed Ali, Maqsood Yameen, Sulman Ahmed, Muhammad Ashraf, Muhammad Rasheed Ahmed and Ziaullah.

One property of each person whose name is mentioned in the list has been identified with the exception of Muhammad Sharif whose two properties have been identified.

Sources said the deputy commissioner had been asked to freeze the properties under section 11-O of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 according to which (a) the money or other property owned or controlled, wholly or partly, directly or indirectly, by a proscribed organization or proscribed person shall be frozen or seized, as the case may be; (b) the money or other property derived or generated from any property referred in clause (a) shall be frozen or seized, as the case may be; (c) no person shall...