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Mufti Jamil is still dead
| More detail on his departure from the gene pool... |
Unidentified gunmen killed two prominent Sunni Muslim clerics in an attack on their vehicle in this southern Pakistan city Saturday, police said.
The killings of Mufti Jamil and Nazir Ahmed Taunsvi come amid fears of escalating sectarian violence in Pakistan following two bombings against religious targets this month that killed more than 70 people. Both Jamil and Taunsvi were close associates of another Sunni cleric, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, whose shooting death in Karachi in May sparked riots by followers in the city.
There was no immediate word on who was behind Saturday's assault, but suspicion would likely fall on minority Shiite militants. Pakistan has a history of sectarian violence.
| Actually, you can probably pick violence of any type and Pakistan has a history of it... |
While most majority Sunnis and Shiites live peacefully together, small extremist groups from both sects have staged attacks. President Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz condemned the killings but reiterated their resolve "to root out the menace of terrorism from the country," the Associated Press of Pakistan news agency reported. A prominent Shiite leader, Allama Hasan Tarabi, condemned the killings of the Sunni scholars as "the murder of humanity." He appealed for clerics of all the sects to find out "who is trying to pit Shiites and Sunni Muslims against each other."
Posted by: Fred 2004-10-10 |
