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| SSP activists protest leader's killing |
| 2007-08-14 |
| The banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) activists on Monday protested the murder their provincial leader Aslam Farooqi, at Qissa Khawani Bazaar. Addressing the protesters, speakers including SSP President Mulana Mohammad Ahmed condemned the killing Aslam Farooqi and said that people should pay tribute to the deceased for his martyrdom. They said it was not the police who arrested the killer, but that the deceased's family nabbed him and handed him over to the police. They said the killing of Aslam Farooqi would produce more people like him. Meanwhile, some angry protesters beat up a man suspecting him to be a Shitte; however, Khan Raziq Police Station officials managed to rescue the man. Witnesses told Daily Times that the protesters caught Qaiser filming the demonstration and beat him up, considering he was a Shitte with some bad intentions. Khan Raziq Police Station House Officer (SHO) Rahmatullah Khan also sustained minor injuries in the scuffle. An SSP activist told Daily Times that the man was carrying a pistol and that he might kill another leader of the organisation. Police later took the man to the police station. MPA Ibrahim Qasmi also arrived at the police station and he later told Daily Times that the man, Qaiser was beaten up on the suspicion of being a Shitte, but actually he was a Sunni. Police later freed Qaiser. |
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