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Friday 18 OctOber 2024
Pakistani police fire tear gas at protesting students as anger

spreads over alleged on-campus rape

By BABAR DOGAR and MU- died in clashes between
NIR AHMED student protesters and po-
Associated Press lice on Wednesday. Police
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — arrested a person in con-
Pakistani police fired tear nection with the death.
gas and charged at student They also arrested a man
protesters who ransacked a who is accused of spread-
college building Thursday, ing misinformation on social
as anger spread over an media about the alleged
alleged on-campus rape, rape and inciting students
prompting the government to violence.
to shut schools, colleges Earlier this week, more than
and universities for two days. two dozen college students
Tensions have been high were injured in clashes with
on college campuses since police in Lahore after they
reports of the alleged rape rallied to demand justice for
in the eastern city of Lahore the alleged victim, who they
spread on social media, said was raped on campus
and protests have broken at the Punjab Group of Col-
out in four cities. leges.
Sexual violence against On Thursday, the govern-
women is common in Paki- ment banned rallies and
stan, but it is underreported shut educational institutions
because of the stigma at- A plainclothes police officer detains a demonstrator during a students’ protest over an alleged in Punjab for two days, ap-
on-campus rape in Punjab, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.
tached in the conservative Associated Press parently to prevent more
country. Protests about the protests, officials said.
issue have been rare. They burned furniture and gas to disperse them, police peace. News of the arrests The Federal Investigation
Thursday’s violence started blocked a key road, disrupt- official Mohammad Afzal panicked parents, who Agency said it has regis-
when hundreds of students ing traffic, before ransack- said. struggled to get their chil- tered cases against 36 peo-
demonstrated outside a ing a college building. Police said they arrested 250 dren released. ple accused of spreading
campus in the city of Rawal- Police responded by swing- people, mostly students, on In Gujrat, also in Punjab misinformation about the
pindi in Punjab province. ing batons and firing tear charges of disrupting the province, a security guard case on social media. q

Zeta drug lord continued to control cartel from inside a Mexican

prison, says U.S. indictment

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A gang. Those accusations mates can often hold large them to pass messages to of the CDN cartel, Juan
U.S. indictment unsealed represent a grim comment numbers of relatively unsu- the outside. Gerardo Treviño — whose
Wednesday in the District on the lack of security at pervised meetings with law- The defendants renamed alias was “El Huevo” or
of Columbia claims that Mexican prisons, where in- yers and relatives, allowing the Zetas to “Cartel Del Nor- “The Egg” was captured
the leader of one of Mex- este” or CDN, according to and deported to the Unit-
ico’s most violent gangs the indictment, which adds ed States because he ap-
continued to run an off- they “continued to control parently had U.S. citizen-
shoot group, the Northeast the Cartel and installed ship, thus avoiding the long
Cartel, from inside a Mexi- various family members to route of extradition.
can prison. operate the CDN after their The CDN cartel dominates
Miguel Angel Treviño Mo- incarceration.” the border city of Nuevo
rales, alias “Zeta 40,” was a The new indictment ac- Laredo, across the border
founder and leader of the cuses the brothers of drug, from Laredo, Texas.
notorious Zetas cartel. He conspiracy, money laun- Like the Zetas, the North-
has been in a Mexican pris- dering, criminal enterprise east gang is ruthlessly vio-
on since his arrest in 2013. and other offenses that lent. It regularly carries out
Together with the killing of could get them up to life in violent shooting attacks on
the Zetas’ other top leader prison. The U.S. has filed a army patrols there, and just
in 2012, the old cartel, which request for the extradition last week one soldier was
spread terror throughout of Miguel Angel Treviño Mo- killed there in a shootout.
Mexico with bloody massa- rales, but it has been held President Claudia Shein-
cres, basically fell apart. up for about a decade by baum said earlier this
The indictment says the court appeals. week that “Nuevo Laredo
new Northeast Cartel was Drug lords in Mexico usually is where criminal groups
created and run by Treviño fight extradition tooth and have carried out the most
Morales and his brother nail, in part because they attacks on the army and
Omar who was arrested can continue to run their the National Guard.”
in 2015 as a successor or- gangs if they stay in Mexi- U.S. Attorney Jaime Espar-
ganization to the Zetas. This file photo shows a mug shot, released on July 15, 2013 by can prisons. za of the Western District of
The brothers allegedly got Mexico’s Interior Ministry, of Zetas drug cartel leader Miguel In 2022, one of those rela- Texas, said the Treviño Mo-
their relatives to run day-to- Angel Trevino Morales after his arrest in Mexico. tives who allegedly ran rales brothers had commit-
day operations for the new Associated Press the day to day operations ted “horrible atrocities.”q