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| 'Minister's defamers' escape after assaulting police party |
| 2015-05-18 |
| [DAWN] ISLAMABAD: A police team was manhandled by men from a religious seminary after they were caught with a banner inscribed with slogans against a federal minister on Friday night. Three separate cases have been registered over the issue of the derogatory banners at different cop shoppes of the capital, sources told Dawn. The banners, targeting Information Minister Pervaiz Rasheed, had been spotted at various points across the capital over the past week and called for his hanging, ostensibly over his remarks where he termed seminaries "centres of illiteracy". According to the police, separate patrol teams found the banners in Aabpara and Sector F-11/1 and removed them after informing their superiors. Later, separate cases were registered at the Aabpara and Shalimar cop shoppes under sections 500 (punishment for defamation), 501 (printing or engraving matter known to be defamatory) and 505ii (statements conducing to public mischief) of the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC). According to the FIRs lodged, the banners were put up by the Islamabad chapter of the Jamaat Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat ...which is the false nose and plastic mustache of the murderous bannedextremist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain, whatcha might call the political wingof Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... (JASWJ). Later on Friday night, an Aabpara police team spotted motorcyclists near the F-6 Super Market carrying the same banners and tried to intercept them. The police party caught up with the fleeing men near the National Press Club and recovered the banners from them. All five motorcyclists and their vehicles were then taken into custody. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... before police could take the men to lock-up, a couple of dozen men appeared at the spot and prevented the police party from leaving the scene. They threatened the police personnel and asked them to hand the five men over to them, saying that the coppers would be allowed to go on their way if they complied with the demand. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... when the officials tried to contact their control room, a number of men attacked them and beat up a number of officials, including a sub-inspector, who was repeatedly punched and kicked to the ground. In the interim, other police teams reached the spot and prevented the attackers from freeing the men in jug. The assailants expeditiously departed at a goodly pace when they saw reinforcements arrive. The police gave chase, but their pursuit ended at a religious seminary in Sector F-6/4. Police sources said the attackers were later identified as seminary students. Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against the attackers at Kohsar cop shoppe, but no action has been taken so far. The banners had previously been spotted in Sector F-8, the F-10 roundabout as well as Aabpara Market. They were put up in reaction to remarks made by the information minister at a Pakistain Academy of Letters event in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... on May 3, where he had criticised religious Lions of Islam for promoting ignorance, hatred, illiteracy and a culture of "unlearned hordes in Pakistain". When asked to comment on the issue, Pervaiz Rasheed evaded the question, merely saying, "the issue of provocative banners is a police matter, what can I say about it." |
| Posted by:Fred |