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| Police nab 'hitman' involved in killing Nizamuddin Shamzai |
| 2015-09-14 |
[DAWN] The city's West Zone police tossed in the calabooseYouse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! a suspect allegedly involved in the killing of four religious scholars of Deobandi school of thought including Mufti Shamzai, 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... -West DIG Feroze Shah said on Sunday. Shah said that the suspect Wasi Haider has been involved in 12 incidents of assassinations, including four religious scholars. "The victims included Mufti Shamzai killed in 2004 and Maulana Abdul Majeed, Mufti Salih Mohammed and Maulana Ihsan who were killed in an armed attack on a van in January 2013," he added. The officer said that the police party, acting on a tip off from the always reliable Mahmoud the Weasel, detained Haider from F.B. Industrial Area of of the metropolis. "The detained suspect is a resident of Lines Area and belongs to a political party," said the DIG West. His four accomplices were absconders. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 The wrong kind of scholars? Wikipedia The movement developed as a reaction to British colonialism in India, which was believed by a group of prominent Indian scholars — consisting of Rashid Ahmad Gangohi, Muhammad Yaqub Nanautawi, Shah Rafi al-Din, Sayyid Muhammad Abid, Zulfiqar Ali, Fadhl al-Rahman Usmani and Muhammad Qasim Nanotvi — to be corrupting the Islamic religion. They therefore founded an Islamic seminary known as Darul Uloom Deoband.[6] From here the Islamic revivalist and anti-imperialist ideology of the Deobandis began to develop.[7] Gradually Darul Uloom Deoband became the second largest focal point of Islamic teachings and research after the Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. Through organisations such as Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind and Tablighi Jamaat its ideology began to spread and the graduates of Darul Uloom Deoband from countries like Saudi Arabia, China and Malaysia opened up thousands of madrasas throughout South Asia, specifically in parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Toward the independence of India, Deobandis advocated a notion of composite nationalism according to which Hindus and Muslims constituted one nation and thus were united in the struggle against the British. In 1919 a large group of Deobandi scholars formed the political party Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind and opposed the Pakistan Movement. A minority group joined Muhammad Ali Jinnah's Muslim League, forming Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam in 1945. Any of our Rantburg scholars recognize any of the names, or groups? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2015-09-14 07:21 |