Altaf Hamid Rao.

MIRPUR ( AJK); February 25 : Local authorities here on Tuesday netted 22 male and female professional buggers during surprise raids at various busiest localities in this lake side city, official sources said.

:On the special instructions of Deputy Commissioner Mirpur Chaudhry Yasser Riyaz, Extra Assistant Commissioner Mirpur Syed Kaleem Abbas and Tehsildar Imran Yousaf, along with the police, conducted an operation against professional beggars and arrested 22 women and several other beggars, who were detained at the City Mirpur police station, Mirpur AJ&K District administration spokesman Javeid Malik told this Correspondent here Tuesday evening.

The district administration has decided to continue its indiscriminate operation against professional beggars with primefocustomake the district clean of the menace of beggery that too mostly of the professional beggers mostly those hailing from adjoining districts besides KPK province.

Local social and political quarters have appreciated the anti professional beggers drive.

The general public have also requested continuation of effective action in the future to make the city and rest of the district totally clean of the professional beggers