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| Civil society deadline for arrest of cleric ends today |
| 2014-12-26 |
| [DAWN] ISLAMABAD: Civil society activists have decided to reach the Aabpara cop shoppe at 5pm on Friday as the deadline for the inclusion of terrorism sections in the FIR against Maulana Abdul Aziz ...nutball holy man who runs the Lal Masjid in the heart of Pakistain's capital. After instigating a rebellion against the state in 2007, he was caught trying to sneak away dressed in a burka. He rejects democracy as un-Islamic, which it probably is... expired. If their demand to include the ATA sections in the FIR against the holy man was met by 5pm, the protesters would disperse otherwise they would take a decision for the next phase of their protest. It may be noted that after the Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. tragedy, Maulana Aziz, the head of Lal Masjid ...literally the Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been... , gave a controversial statement and said he would neither condemn the killing of the children nor considered them as deaders. Because of the statement, the civil society started a protest against the holy man. For two days, the protests were held in front of the mosque during which the Maulana also reportedly threatened the protesters. As a result, cases were registered against both the sides. On the third day of the protest on December 20, the civil society moved to the National Press Club (NPC) and held a protest there. On December 22, when the protesters gathered outside the Aabpara cop shoppe, SHO Khalid Awan assured them that after getting a legal opinion the sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) would be included in the FIR registered against the holy man on the charge of instigating the citizens for violence and spreading sectarian hatred. On the other hand, the civil society representatives warned that if the ATA sections were not included in the FIR and the holy man was not placed in durance vile Into the paddy wagon wit' yez! , they would again hold a protest in front of the cop shoppe on December 26. Human rights activist Jibran Nasir, the organiser of the protest, told Dawn that the police had sought two days for the fulfillment of the protesters' demand. "The police promised to include the sections in the FIR and arrest the holy man by December 24. We did not hold a protest on December 25 and celebrated Christmas with the Christian community," he said. "If the ATA sections are not included in the FIR and the holy man is not arrested by 5pm on Friday, we will announce our next line of action," he said. "Sections which have been demanded by the civil society are non-bailable, so the Maulana cannot even get bail before arrest. Police have to arrest him," he said. When contacted, SHO Awan said an opinion had been sought from the legal branch which was not a simple process. "File moves from the cop shoppe to the superintendent of police (SP) office and then to the SSP office before reaching the legal branch and comes back in a similar way," he said. "If we got an opinion before 5pm on Friday to include the sections in the FIR, we will do it in accordance with the legal advice. Otherwise we will tell the civil society representatives that the process was lengthy," he said. A police official requesting not to be identified said according to the standard operating procedure, police sought a legal opinion when there was confusion about the inclusion of some sections in an FIR. |
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