Maulana Salfi gunned down in Lahore
Unidentified gunmen on Sunday shot dead a mainstream leader of the Jamaat al-Dawaa, Maulana Hafiz Muhammad Ibrahim Salfi, after storming into his house in Township.
[Knock! Knock!]
"Yes?"
"Are youse Maulana Hafiz Muhammad Ibrahim Salfi?"
"Yeah. Whaddya want?"
[Bang! Bang! Bangety bang!] |
Salfi had already survived at least four assassination attempts during the last few years and had been injured for a couple of times, police investigators and his group said.
| "He was a real popular guy!" |
After leading morning prayers at Jamia Masjid Al-Hadith Al-Quds, Maulana Salfi, 45, had just reached his home, when the doorbell rang.
[Ding dong!]
"Assassins calling!" |
Salfi opened the door for the gunmen who dragged him inside the garage and shot him dead. The religious leader died on his way to a nearest hospital.
He received five bullets fired from a pistol, one in the head that proved fatal.
(No the one in the balls did)
Yahya Mujahid, a spokesman for the Jamaat al-Dawaa, blamed the Indian government for Salfi's killing.
| "I mean, who else could it o' been? Nobody in Pakland shoots guyz!" |
The spokesman described the incident as terrorism, saying the group was active in held Kashmir and that was why India carried out the act.
(that means they all are terrorists active in Kashmir I wonder what Musharraf is doing about it)
'Jamaat al-Dawaa' was formed after the government outlawed 'Laskhar-e-Taiba'.
| It's the false nose and moustache version of Lashkar... |
Agencies add: Mujahid said that Salfi was involved in preaching Islam and had "no political role" in the Dawa. "We do not believe it was a sectarian murder," he said.
| "Yeah! He wuz just a simple holy man!" |
A Dawa party official, Habibullah, said that the slain cleric was on the "hit list of terrorists", who wanted to kill religious leaders to create unrest in the country.
| Another case of bringing coal to Newcastle... |
Later, Maulana Salfi was laid to rest in the township graveyard after Maghrib prayers. Professor Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Amir Jamaat al-Dawa led the Namaz-e-Janaza of Hafiz Salfi at the government high school township ground. Hundreds of people, including Ulema, his followers, students, leaders of various groups of Ahle-hadith, party workers, political leaders and people, belonging to various walks of life, attended the Namaz-e-Janaza. Addressing the mourners, Hafiz Saeed appealed them to remain peaceful. He demanded of the government to arrest the killers of Maulana Salfi without any further delay. |
