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| Pakistan religious leader’s brother in murder probe |
| 2003-09-11 |
| A senior Pakistani police official in the southwestern city of Quetta said Hafiz Hameedullah would be questioned over alleged links with the Afghan Taliban movement. He said Hameedullah was detained on Wednesday in connection with the killing of a nephew of Afghanistan’s Urban Development Minister Gul Agha Sherzai near the Pakistani border town of Chaman in April. Sherzai was governor of Afghanistan’s troubled southern Kandahar province at the time of the killing. Hameedullah is the younger brother of Hafiz Hamdullah, minister of health in Pakistan’s Baluchistan province and a prominent member of the six-party Islamic religious alliance Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). The little brother of a Pak government Islamic biggy wacked the nephew of a Afghan government biggy. Got it? Ok, continue. Hamdullah denied his brother had any links to the Taliban or was involved in the killing. All together now; "Lies, all lies!" Thank you. ’’My brother is innocent and all accusations against him regarding murder and his links with the Taliban are wrong and baseless,’’ Hamdullah told Reuters. ’’It is a conspiracy against the MMA.’’ psst, Bin Laden did it as part of his plan to destabilize Musharraf’s government, pass it along. The MMA is bitterly opposed to Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf for being a key ally of the United States in its war against terror. It rules Baluchistan and the North West Frontier Province, both bordering Afghanistan. Hameedullah was arrested in Chaman and is now in custody in Quetta, capital of Baluchistan. He has not been charged. Big brother will spring him from the slammer. Police sources in Chaman said his name came up during interrogation of a group of 26 Taliban, arrested on August 30 at an Islamic seminary. Interesting, almost like the cops were working for the government instead of the MMA. How’d that happen? |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 "Interesting, almost like the cops were working for the government instead of the MMA. How’d that happen?" I expect they'll be punished severely and transferred to NWFP to learn proper respect for their betters, Steve... |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-9-11 8:49:11 PM |