PESHAWAR/KHAR: Chief Minister Mahmood Khan has said that proper care will be taken of the members of Tableeghi Jamaat belonging to other provinces and countries presently quarantined in the province.

He said that as long as they stayed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, they would be facilitated to the maximum level for which necessary instructions were issued to all the district administrations and other relevant authorities.

He was talking to a three-member delegation of Tableeghi Jamaat who called on him here on Thursday and discussed with him matters related to the facilitation of the members of the Jamaat quarantined in different parts of the province, said an official statement.

The delegation was informed that from very beginning, special arrangements including quarantine, screening and testing had been put in place for the members of Tableeghi Jamaat.

It was said that a large number of preachers had been sent back to their respective provinces and countries after completion of their quarantine period.

Tableeghi Jamaat members allowed to go home from Bajaur

On the demand of the delegation, the chief minister directed the authorities concerned to nominate a focal person from home department to have regular coordination with the elders of Tableeghi Jamaat for their inter-provincial exchange.

In Bajaur, the authorities allowed 17 members of Tableeghi Jamaat to leave a local quarantine centre after they tested negative for coronavarious.

Assistant Commissioner Fazal Raheem told journalists after visiting the quarantine centre at Government Postgraduate College Khar that 17 members of Tableehi Jamaat of the total 67 suspected persons kept in the quarantine centre were allowed to go home after completion of their 14-day period.

He said that all the 17 preachers, who mostly belonged to Karachi and other parts of Sindh province, were released from the quarantine centre a day after the health department declared their test for the coronavirus negative.

Mr Raheem said that the preachers, who had been in the district for about a month, were quarantined at Government Postgraduate College Khar to prevent spread of coronavirus as they belonged to the infected areas.

He said that the remaining 50 inmates of the quarantine centre would also be discharged after completion of 14-day stay at the facility. He said that the discharged persons were directed to strictly follow precautionary measures.

The official said that administration was taking care of the people quarantined in different centres.

The members of Tableeghi Jamaat expressed satisfaction over the arrangements at the quarantine facility.

They said that administration improved the standard and quality of facilities and food at the centre when their complaint about the same was published in media.

It merits a mention here that scores of members of Tableeghi Jamaat, belonging to different areas of the country, had been in Bajaur tribal district for the last several weeks.

The administration on Friday last had sealed the main Tableeghi Markaz in Bajaur after two members of the Jammat belonging to Balochistan province tested positive for coronavirus.

Published in Dawn, April 24th, 2020