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| FIR registered in Rawalpindi imambargah blast case |
| 2015-01-11 |
| [DAWN] The FIR of Friday's kaboom at an imambargah in Rawalpindi's Chittian Hattian area was registered at the Waris Khan cop shoppe on Saturday. A Joint Investigation Team (JIT), headed by SP Rawal Town, was also constituted to probe the incident and submit its report within 14 days. SHO of Waris Khan cop shoppe Raja Abdul Rasheed was selected as the investigating officer in the case. The case was registered on a complaint lodged by the custodian of the Imambargah ...since Pakistain is very religiously correct, Shia Moslems can't call their houses of worship 'mosques,' which are reserved for Sunnis. It's not clear if imambargahs are used for explosives storage like mosques are... Ibne Mohammad Rizvi under charges of murder, attempted murder, terrorism, possessing and using banned kaboom. At least eight people were killed and 16 others maimed in the powerful blast which rattled Imambargah Aun Mohammad Rizvi in the garrison city's densely populated Chatian Hatian area. A group of over 100 Shia devotees were celebrating a milad a function held to mark the birth of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) when the kaboom took place. In Shia tradition, the Holy Prophets (peace be upon him) birth anniversary is celebrated on the 17th of Rabiul Awal. Angry locals insisted that the heinous act was a sectarian attack. This area, they said, had been the site of tensions in November 2013, when a standoff between the Taleemul Koran seminary and the Muharram procession resulted in full-blown riots in Rawalpindi. |
| Posted by:Fred |