"I am in bad shape. I am bleeding," he said when the BBC News website contacted him by mobile phone.
"Please come with an armoured car... I am bleeding. My life is in danger. Please help me, get me out of here."
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| Pakistani Minister has to be rescued from Cleric's mourners |
| 2005-06-25 |
| So Mufti Rahman was Mufti Shamzai's replacement as head of Binori.. More than 10,000 mourners have attended the funeral of a Sunni Muslim cleric in the Pakistani city of Karachi amid protests at his murder. Mufti Attiqur Rahman was shot in his car by unidentified gunmen on Thursday. A second man in the vehicle died later. About 1,000 policeman were deployed for the funeral of Mufti Rahman, 55, and his friend, Mohammed Irshad. The funeral passed off generally peacefully but Mr Hussain, Pakistan's junior minister for religious affairs, said he was set upon by an angry mob as he said funeral prayers at the Binori town mosque and was trapped in a building nearby. "I am in bad shape. I am bleeding," he said when the BBC News website contacted him by mobile phone. He could be heard urging the authorities to send help on another line. "Please come with an armoured car... I am bleeding. My life is in danger. Please help me, get me out of here." A police official told Associated Press Mr Hussain had now been rescued. Mufti Rahman had been deputising for Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was murdered in Karachi in May last year, sparking riots. A number of activists from Mufti Rahman's madrassah, or religious school, came out on the streets in the Site area of the city on Friday and pelted vehicles with stones and set up roadblocks but were dispersed by police. Mufti Rahman had been returning from delivering Koran lessons at a city mosque on Thursday evening when two gunmen on a motorcycle fired shots into his vehicle, police said. Mufti Rahman died hours later and Mr Irshad of his injuries on Friday. The cleric's 10-year-old son, Imadur, was wounded and is in a stable condition. |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #3 shades of Austin Powers: "I am in quite a bit of pain here" |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-06-25 17:22 |
| #2 "I am in bad shape. I am bleeding," he said when the BBC News website contacted him by mobile phone. "Please come with an armoured car... I am bleeding. My life is in danger. Please help me, get me out of here." |
| Posted by: john 2005-06-25 15:17 |
| #1 "Any where, if there is one American soldier present, suicide bombing is permissible under Islam" Dr. Aamir was quoted by these sources as having said on record. "There are times when the truth must be told," he added in one remark. Link |
| Posted by: john 2005-06-25 15:15 |