 The federal government should sever diplomatic ties with Germany to protest the alleged death of a Pakistani, Amir Cheema, in German police custody.
| That'd be a move of sheer brilliance, about the kind of suggestion we've come to expect from NWFP ministers... |
“This is a cold blooded murder of a lover of the Holy Prophet (PTUI PBUH), and it should not be allowed to go unnoticed,” NWFP Minister Hafiz Hashmat told hundreds of people at Cheema’s funeral prayers at Jinnah Park on Sunday.
| Except that the autopsy showed he offed himself, rather than being tortured to death as he likely would have been in a Pak prison. |
The minister criticised federal government officials for not participating in the several funeral prayers offered in various parts of the country.
| How callous of them. They're probably bored to death with the whole incident by now. |
Cheema was allegedly killed in a German jail, whereas the German authorities claimed that he had committed suicide.
| And proved it to the Pak government representatives who were duly dispatched to Berlin... |
Participants also passed a resolution demanding the NWFP and federal governments check intelligence and law enforcing agenciesÂ’ uncontrolled raids to arrest foreigners illegally.
| Wouldn't want to disturb the locals' guests, would we? |
The resolution was put forward by JI leader Sabir Hussain Awan. The resolution also demanded NWFP Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani suspend heads of intelligence agencies involved in implicating foreigners in fake cases and linking them with militants groups.
| And they're all fake, y'know... |
Hashmat said he had talked to Durrani about the matter, but the chief minister had failed to do anything in this regard, and the issue would now be raised in the next cabinet meeting. Sabir said the frequent raids and arrests of ‘innocent people’ were promoting hatred among people against the army. The leader said he personally knew several people who had been arrested by agencies, but they had never been associated with any militant organisation.
| They were all simple holy men with extensive gun collections, many of them passed down from father to son... |
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