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Mufti Munib demands govt security following Taliban threat
The head of an association of madrassas (seminaries), Mufti Munibur Rehman, has sought government protection after receiving death threats for denouncing the Taliban, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The appeal comes one week after another anti-Taliban cleric and Rehman's friend Dr Sarfraz Naeemi was killed in a suicide attack on his madrassa in Lahore. "I am a target and have received threats," Rehman, the president of Tanzeemul Madaris Pakistan, said over the telephone from Karachi. He, however, did not provide details of the threats. Last month, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called on clerics across the country to speak with a united voice against terrorists who perverted the teachings of Islam. "The government's statements that they have provided us with security are lies," Rehman said, who was one of the first clerics to issue a religious verdict against suicide bombings in 2005. "We ourselves don't have the resources to hire private security." Posted by: 2009-06-19 |
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