| Here we go again!!!!!!!! ISLAMABAD (Dunya News):-While taking suo motu notice of Badami Bagh Bagh incident in which dozens of houses of Christian community were set on fire by miscreants, chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has ordered the Advocate General and IG Punjab to submit their reports regarding the shameful incident. Three-member bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry would resume hearing of the tragic incident tomorrow on March 11. Having registered case against accused of aforesaid incident, police have arrested dozens of people for investigation. On the other hand, several protests and demonstration were held on Sunday in various cities of Pakistan including Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad against Saturday’s Badami Bagh incident in Lahore which saw at least 125 houses belonging to the Christian community burnt by a mob allegedly enraged over a blasphemy incident. Members of the Christian community staged protests on Ferozepur road in Lahore. Some enraged demonstrators resorted to stone pelting and broke the windows of buses and stands of the recently-launched Metro Bus service in Lahore. Police also fired aerial shots to disperse the mob but to no avail. Similarly members of civil society, along with members of Christian and other minority communities staged a demonstration infront of Karachi Press Club on Sunday. Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activists and lawmakers also participated in the sit-in. Police personnel fired teargas shells to disperse the protesting demonstrators. Similar demonstrations were held in Karachi, Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Spokesperson for Punjab Government, Pervez Rasheed said that those involved in the Badami Bagh incident would be tried under the anti-terror laws. An initial investigation report over the incident was submitted by Punjab’s Inspector General police to provincial Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif on Sunday according to which timely action by the police had prevented the loss of life. The report further said that there were only a handful of people behind the incident and that the policemen avoided the use of gunfire and other lethal weapons in order to minimise the loss of life. At least 131 persons were taken into custody who were suspected of involvement in Saturday’s gruesome incident whereas a letter was written to the Lahore High Court’s registrar requesting for a judicial inquiry into the incident. 
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