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| Main suspect of vigil attack arrested |
| 2015-05-26 |
[DAWN] LAHORE: Police claimed to have incarceratedDrop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on Sunday the main suspect involved in attacking activists of civil society at a vigil held to mark the death anniversary of slain Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard 2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers 3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... governor Salman Taseer in January this year. Mumtaz Sindhi was wanted by police which did not reveal from where the suspect was arrested but said he belonged to the Sunni Tehrik ...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations 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... Police had earlier arrested seven suspects Adeel, Furqan, Iftikhar, Kashif, Deen Muhammad, Sajid and Wazir Ali and booked them under Section 7 of the ATC and sections 365, 427, 183, 148 and 149 of the PPC in the same case. An anti-terrorism court had rejected the bail of these suspects. The Lahore High Court later granted bail to these suspects with a direction to the ATC to decide the case within three months. The case is still under trial in the ATC. Complainant Abdullah Malik claimed that Mumtaz Sindhi was allegedly leading a group which had attacked and injured a journalist and a rights activist besides destroying a portrait of the slain governor during a vigil. |
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