| Interior minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao said that the government has registered 400 cases against clerics in Punjab for misuse of loudspeakers after monitoring last Friday. Talking to reporters, the minister said that the government will enact a new law making seminary registration compulsory. He said that 200 people had been charged with misuse of loud speakers in Punjab, adding that 280 people had been arrested in the crackdown on banned extremist groups across the country. Sherpao said that the government would not allow any banned groups to operate under new names and vowed that the government would deal strictly with such elements. He added that the government had also charged 46 people with spreading hatred. |