The administration has set one week deadline for booksellers to voluntarily remove material spreading sectarian hatred in the society after which a crackdown will be carried out on those selling such literature.
Additional assistant commissioner Nisar Hussain, Iqrar Ali and Iftikhar Ahmed chaired a meeting of booksellers of the city and told them that in the light of orders by the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government they had been asked to take stern legal action and curb the sale of hate material.
The orders shall be applicable to the CD shop owners who sell Jehadi material to people and brainwash them. They requested the booksellers and CD shop owners to inform them about the sources of such material so that the menace could be weeded out from society.
They said that the government had imposed a ban on sale of such material. They said that the society was already divided among various sects and it was need of the time to promote harmony and brotherhood.
They warned that after one week the shops violating the orders would be sealed and the owners would be arrested under the law.
The booksellers present at the meeting promised to help the government in identification of people spreading hatred and remove all the controversial material from their shops.
Source Dawn
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