ISLAMABAD - A group of 30 people, pretending themselves as the representative of a non-governmental organisation (Milestone), travelling on the vehicles, which also included a vehicle of a ruling PPP MPA, hurled threats of serious consequences to a senior official of Ministry of Special Education and Social Welfare for his alleged involvement in leaking news about their illegal activities to media. Following the story published in TheNation regarding encroachment by Pakistan Bait-ul-Mal on a playground of National Special Education Centre for Mentally Retarded Children (NSEC for MRC) situated in Sector H-8 and the illegal occupation of a NGO on three class rooms of Centre for Mentally Retarded Children, Secretary Special Education and Social Welfare (SE&SW) the other day issued notice to the Milestone to vacate the premises of Centre for Mentally Retarded Children building immediately and an immediate halt of construction work on the playground area. Following the issuance of notice by the Secretary SE&SW, Bait ul Mal has temporarily stopped the construction work in the playground of NSEC for MRC. But the illegal occupation of Milestone on the three rooms of Centre for Mentally Retarded Children still exists despite the issuance of notice, sources added. Sources informed that as many as 30 people led by Yasin Azad on Wednesday visited the office of Director MRC and told him that they represented Milestone and hurled threats of serious consequences to him. They said that Milestone would not vacate the rooms and move the court against the issue. It is pertinent to mention here that earlier Pakistan Bait ul Mal (PBM) had cruelly encroached upon a playground of NSEC for MRC situated in Sector H-8 and started building a complex of offices there. The playground area was earmarked for agro-therapy project for mentally retarded children and on its one part the Special Olympics Pakistan was trying to build squash, badminton and volleyball courts for special children of the centre. Its worth mentioning here that financially sound and resourceful PBM is already holding two buildings of hearing impaired and mentally retarded children hostels for the last 10 years. According to the officials of PBM and Special Education ministry, during dictator Musharrafs regime, with the help of bureaucracy, firstly the hostel of NSEC for HIC in Sector H-9 was taken over by PBM and converted it into their offices and later when they needed building for headquarters they encroached upon hostel built for mentally retarded children. At that time the high ups of PBM had promised to vacate these hostel buildings for special children as soon as possible when their own offices buildings would be ready but later their bad intentions were witnessed from the fact that those officials did extensive remodelling and renovations of the buildings to suite their needs. It is worth mentioning here that members of Parent Teachers Association of those both centres, that are NSEC for HIC and NSEC for MRC, at that time protested with the concerned quarters over such encroachments but no one paid heed towards the miseries of the special children parents. Not only PBM is involved in this encroachment of special children hostels but its officials also accommodated an NGO (Milestone) and handed over them three classrooms of Centre for Mentally Retarded Children.