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MUZAFFARABAD: Confusion prevailed on Tuesday over the reported arrest of proscribed Joint Awami Action Committee (JAAC) core leader Shaukat Nawaz Mir, as activists claimed he had been taken into custody, while officials refrained from confirming the development.
A resident of Muzaffarabad, Mir is among the four core JAAC leaders for whose capture the government had offered a Rs10 million reward. He also faces sedition charges, and has been evading arrest since the ‘head money’ was announced.
Reports of Mir’s supposed arrest first surfaced on social media, where JAAC activists claimed that he had been arrested from the Dhirkot subdivision of Bagh district.
According to police sources, enforcement personnel launched a combing operation in the area he was thought to be hiding, and later took him into custody near Airan Nullah on Tuesday afternoon.
