[TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES] A Pak court on Friday issued arrest warrant against hard boy holy man 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...
for threatening activists protesting outside his 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...
(Red Mosque) in Islamabad.
The activists were protesting the holy man's pro-Taliban stance in the wake of 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.
massacre at a sit-in outside the mosque last week.
The mosque came into prominence in 2007 when Mighty Pak Army commandos stormed it for challenging the state's writ. Aziz's brother was killed in the operation, which is widely believed to have prompted retaliatory Taliban strikes on public places, mosques and military installations. Aziz was tossed in the calaboose
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
while trying to escape from the mosque wearing a face veil and paraded on national TV in the same attire. He was released on bail in 2009.
On Friday, civil judge Saqib Jawad issued the warrant against the holy man after hearing a petition of the activists, who protested outside the mosque throughout last week.
The holy man had refused to call the terror victims deaders and described the attack a "reaction" to the ongoing anti-Taliban operations.
Aziz's front man, Hafiz Ehtisham, said his followers would resist his arrest. "Before arresting Maulana Aziz, (Prime Minister) Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
, (opposition figure) Imran Khan
... aka
Taliban Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
and Punjab's CM Shahbaz Sharif
...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab...
should be arrested,'' he said. "Maulana Aziz has decided not to handover himself to police.''
Activist Jibran Nasir, who organized last week's protests, warned of a "new plan" if the holy man was not arrested on Friday.
"We demand from police that sections of Anti-terrorism Act should be included in the First Information Report (FIR) and if the holy man is not arrested by 5pm on Friday, we will announce our next line of action.''
Aziz had last week warned of backlash in the event of executions of convicted terrorists.