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Terrorism case registered against organisers of pro-Qadri rally
 [DAWN] KARACHI: Police on Friday registered a terrorism case against the organisers of a rally staged for the release of Mumtaz Qadri, the self-confessed killer of Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... governor Salman Taseer. The rally was organised by the Tanzeemat-e-Ahle Sunnat, an alliance of certain religious parties, demanding the release of Qadri whose appeal against the death sentence has recently been turned down by the apex court. Vehicular traffic was suspended on the arterial M. A. Jinnah Road when scores of protesters, mostly students of seminaries, marched towards Numaish from Gurumandir causing a traffic mess on adjoining roads. In a bid to open the road for traffic, the police baton-charged the protesters and tossed in the calaboose Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages! some of them. A front man for the Sunni Tehrik ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities... , one of the parties in the alliance, said that the police resorted to a baton charge on "the peaceful rally and arrested several participants". He said that a protest sit-in was staged at Numaish for the release of the held workers. "Our leader Shahid Ghori talked to the authorities for the release of workers. We ended our sit-in following the release of the workers," he added. However, corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds... SP-Jamshed Dr Fahad Ahmed told Dawn that protesters attacked police mobile vans to get their accomplices released. "Some of our men were also injured," he added. Posted by: Fred 2015-12-19 |
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