Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
wants the
Punjab government to take to task its officials who allegedly let two firebrand...
firebrandsare noted more for audio volume and the quantity of spittle generated than for any actual logic in their arguments...
leaders of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain
...a Sunni Deobandi organization, a formerly registered Pak political party, established in the early 1980s in Jhang by Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi. Its stated goal is to oppose Shia influence in Pakistain. They're not too big on Brelvis, either. Or Christians. Or anybody else who's not them. The organization was
bannedin 2002 as a terrorist organization, but somehow it keeps ticking along, piling up the corpse counts...
(SSP) sneak into Islamabad last Friday to make provocative speeches, Dawn learned on Monday.
Having "snuck" (or maybe it's "sneaked," I'm not sure), doesn't it negate the sneakiness when you give a speech? Especially a high-spittle content stem-winder?
Police sources here said the interior ministry had demanded the Punjab home department take action against the administration and coppers of Kamalia and Khanewal who failed to prevent Maulana Mohammad Ahmed Ludhianvi and Maulana Mohammad Khalid Dhillon from leaving their hometowns in violation of restrictions imposed on the leaders of the banned SSP under Section 11 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Such "restrictions" don't include anything about iron bars making a prison or breaking up big ones to make little ones...
Interior Minister Rehman Malik's ire was aroused when he was made target of ridicule in National Assembly on Friday for what friends and foes accused his ministry of sleeping over the activities of hate-mongers and terrorists.
Ahah! The "wudn't me" defense!
The very next day the minister suspended SHO Irshad Abro of Margalla Police Station for not arresting the two sneaky leaders
... or maybe "snucky" leaders?
for making provocative speeches and display of hate material and banners at a religious ceremony.
According to the sources, the ceremony had been a long tradition and the Margalla police came to know about the presence of the leaders only because it was there to provide security. It was considered prudent not to incite religious frenzy by arresting them.
However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
the event was noted in the cop shoppe's daily diary and the senior officers were informed same night about the unexpected presence of the SSP leaders the same night. Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against them on Sunday. But the FIR was sealed because of the sensitive nature of the case, the sources said.
They claimed that the organisers of the Paighumber-e-Islam.
Conference had met the Margalla police on Thursday and assured that no banned leader would be attending nor any hate speeches be made at the conference, a tradition going on for 18 years.
Several sitting politicians addressed the conference.
It may be that law does not allow banned
...the word
bannedseems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organizations and their leaders to remain in business, but what seemed to arouse the federal government to action was politics.
It was Minister of State for Health Sheikh Waqas Akram of PML-Q, who on Friday rubbished the government's anti-terrorism efforts "a drama." He said he knew that a Paighumber-e-Islam Conference planned in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Company that day as part of Eid-e- Milad-un-Nabi celebrations was in fact meant to provide a stage for religious faceless myrmidons to spread venom.
Former religious affairs minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi, who is under detention facing fraud charges and attends the assembly on parole, interjected that families of the judges trying cases of terrorism have been receiving threats.
Even PML-N's Sahabzada Fazal Karim joined the criticism of the freedom gun-hung tough guys groups enjoyed in the country. He said the Punjab government allowed the Defence of Pakistain Council hold a rally at Minar-e-Pakistain in Lahore but denied the same venue to Sunni Tehrik
...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and liquidations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities...
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