The Mother of all claims: Mumtaz Qadri was a Deobandi
LUBP's claim: Mumtaz Qadri was a Deobandi.
https://lubpak.com/archives/329352
"Abu Bakr Chishti: The word ‘Qadri’ in one’s name is not a certificate that one is a Sunni Sufi or Barelvi. Just as every resident of Jhang city is not a supporter or member of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, not every Qadri is a Sunni Barelvi. Mumaz belongs to a Deobandi family of Bhara Kahu, Rawalpindi. He was a member of Deobandi terror outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba (ASWJ). In the meanwhile he also participated in Ilyas Qadri’s Dawat-e-Islami and added Qadri to his name. However, he maintained contacts with takfiri Deobandi khawarij who found him a recruit who could be used to murder Salmaan Taseer while shifting the blame on peaceful Sunni Barelvi community."
Reality Check:
Qadri's family is Deobandi but he converted to Barelvism.
http://www.thefridaytimes.com/14012011/page7.shtml
"It turns out that Qadri was a convert from the Deobandi to Barelvi school of thought. His parents and siblings are Deobandi. They live in Rawalpindi and belong to the nearby Bara Kahu area. Mumtaz adopted the name Qadri out of respect for the Barelvi Dawat-e-Islami leader Ilyas Qadri."
"Like most converts Qadri had a passion for instigating religious debate and on two occasions he had pointed his weapon on colleagues with whom he himself had initiated some controversial debate. He was declared unfit for sensitive duty in a 2004 report prepared by the then SSP Special Branch, Nasir Khan Durrani. His name was among 11 officers declared ‘unsuitable’ for high security assignments. Mr Durrani is now serving as Additional IG of the Special Branch."
Murder of Justice Arif Iqbal Bhatti
LUBP's claim: Sipah Sahaba killed Justice Arif Iqbal Bhatti.
https://lubpak.com/archives/36490
"Previously a daring and honest judge Arif Iqbal Bhatti was killed by Islamo-fascists of the Sipah-e-Sahaba in 1997 when he acquitted two innocent Christians accused of blasphemy to the Quran."
Reality Check:
To be fair, LUBP published my comment. https://lubpak.com/archives/36490#comment-2195395
Murder of Maulana Habibullah Mukhtar
LUBP's claim: Intra-deobandi fighting led to the killing.
https://lubpak.com/archives/322974
شیعہ یا صوفی سنیوں میں کوئی بهی organised taget killing and attack کرنے والے اور دہشت گردی کو بطور norm کے قبول کرنے کے شواہد نہیں ملے اور کراچی کی سی آئی ڈی اور کرائم برانچ سے آپ کو رجوع کرنا چاہئیے وہ آپ کو بتائیں گے مفتی نظام الدین شامزئی ، مولانا مختار ، مولانا یوسف لدهیانوی سمیت کئی ایک جید دیوبندی مولویوں کے قاتل کون تهے اور ان کے قتل کت پیچهے محرکات کیا تهے
Reality check:
http://tribune.com.pk/story/443626/sectarian-hit-men-move-from-killing-individuals-to-targeting-families-police/
"Another
well known case in the 1990s was the murder of Deobandi scholar
Maulana Habibullah Mukhtar near Guru Mandir in 1997. The police
managed to arrest two suspects, Tanveer Abbas and Saleem Jaffer, who
were later acquitted by the court. They believe that the main
suspect, a man identified as Rana, was hiding in Iran. Around a year
or so ago, Abbas was murdered in Rizvia. The police suspect that he
might have been killed in a mugging."
Murder
of Mufti Shamzai
LUBP's claim: On the instigation of Mufti Taqi Usmani and Ahmad Ludhivani, Amjad Farooqi, a Sipah Sahaba militant, killed a moderate Deobandi cleric Mufti Shamzai.
https://lubpak.com/archives/233399
"Pakistani and international media conveniently ignored the fact that Amjad Farooqi Deobandi was last seen in Karachi’s Quaidabad suburb in the Tariq Hotel, on the same day (30 May 2004) that Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, a leading Sunni Deobandi cleric and head of Islamic religious school Jamia Binoria, was assassinated (Source). Amjad Farooqi Deobandi was a member of the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (aka Sipah Sahaba Taliban), a banned group of sectarian assassins who target Shia, Sunni Barelvi, Ahmadi and Christian communities. Farooqi had been tasked by none else than a leading (Takfiri) Deobandi cleric to assassinate Mufti Shamzai."
Reality check:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3763093.stm
31 May 2004: "The car of Mufti Shamzai was ambushed by up to six gunmen".
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/national/15-Sep-2005/key-suspect-in-shamzai-murder-case-arrested-claim-police
http://fp.brecorder.com/2005/09/20050915324986/
15 Sep 2005: "KARACHI: Police on Wednesday arrested a Shia Muslim suspected in the shooting death last year of a prominent, pro-Taliban Sunni Muslim cleric in Karachi, an investigator said.
Nafees Khan, 30, was nabbed in a police raid on a house in an eastern neighborhood of Karachi, said senior police investigator Farooq Awan."
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/karachi/05-Mar-2007/shamzai-killer-arrested-cid
https://www.dawn.com/news/236182
https://www.dawn.com/news/235961
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/45295
5 Mar 2007: "Hammad Riaz Naqvi, they said, was arrested after an encounter in Aswan Town of the Malir district.....Riaz and his accomplices also allegedly killed Maulana Mufti Nizam-ud-Din Shamzai on May 18, 2004 in Jamshed Quarters police limits."
http://dunya.com.pk/index.php/pakistan/2015-09-14/628951#.XGDYQ1z7S00
http://www.dawn.com/news/1206725
http://tribune.com.pk/story/956309/alleged-killer-of-mufti-shamzai-nailed/
http://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/8152-target-killer-of-several-religious-leaders-arrested-in-karachi-police
http://www.geo.tv/latest/5989-target-killer-of-several-religious-leaders-arrested-in-karachi-police
http://nation.com.pk/karachi/14-Sep-2015/hitman-held-in-karachi-police
http://nation.com.pk/14-Sep-2015/hitman-held-in-karachi-police
http://www.samaa.tv/pakistan/2015/09/hit-man-confesses-to-killing-mufti-shamzai-eight-others/
13 Sep 2015: "KARACHI: Police on Sunday claimed to have arrested an
alleged target killer, associated with a political party, who had
killed Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai and three other religious scholars in
Karachi, Samaa reported Sunday.
In
May 2004, renowned religious scholar Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai was
assassinated in gun attack on his car outside his home a few yards
from the Jamia Binnoria in Jamshed Town of Karachi.
“Wasi
Haider son of Hassan Raza has made some shocking revelations during
initial interrogation. He has confessed to killing Mufti Shamzai and
seven other people. He also murdered Maulan Abdul Majeed Deenpuri,
Hafiz Muhammad Ehsan Ali Shah and Mufti Sahel Muhammad Qazi in 2013,”
a police official told Samaa.
According
to police, the accused was arrested during an encounter with police
in Federal Industrial Area."
https://twitter.com/ZameerAMalik/status/643448793946427392
Some details about Wasi Haider, MQM's sectarian killer.
Lynching of a Christian couple in Kot Radha Kishan
LUBP's claim: Sipah Sahaba was responsible.
https://lubpak.com/archives/326465
"On 4 November, a local mullah, an imam of a Deobandi mosque in Kot Radha Kishan, a small town near Lahore, announced on the mosque loudspeakers that a Christian couple had burnt a copy of the Koran and hurled it into a rubbish bin. He told the people to go to the village where couple lived and kill them."
Reality Check:
Maulvi Mohammad Hussain, the cleric who instigated the mob, appears to be a Barelvi as just few days before this incident, he had hosted a prominent Barelvi scholar Mufti Khadim Hussein Rizivi for the Urs of Ilm Din.
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/6/20/blasphemy-in-pakistan-anatomy-of-a-lynching.html
"Meanwhile, about a mile away from the kiln, in the narrow, red-brick lanes of the village, preparations were underway for a grand celebration as local clerics prepared to welcome Muhammad Khadim Hussain Rizvi, a well-known Barelvi Muslim scholar, to an Urs, a traditional South Asian celebration of the life and works of men considered to be Sufi saints. This event, organized by a religious political party, honored Ilmuddin, a Muslim man from Lahore who, in one of the most high-profile blasphemy cases ever to occur in then-undivided India, stabbed to death the publisher of a religiously charged pamphlet titled Rangeela Rasul (The Promiscuous Prophet) in 1929."
Murder of Rashid and Sajid Emmanuel
LUBP's claim: Sipah Sahaba was responsible.
https://lubpak.com/archives/19428
"Children of General Zia-ul-Haq, i.e., terrorists of the Sipah-e-Sahaba, under the patronage of Pakistan’s ISI and Shahbaz Sharif’s government in the Punjab province, are back in action once again. Today (19 July 2010), Muslim extremists belonging to the Sipah-e-Sahaba (an affiliate terrorist organisation of the Taliban and Jamaat-e-Islami) shot dead Rahid Emmanuel and Sajjid Emmanuel in broad daylight in front of hundreds of people in district courts compound in Faisalabad today."
Reality check:
An initial report by Dunya TV suggested that the killer, Rana Maqsood Ahmad, was allegedly a member of a "banned organization".
http://dunyanews.tv/print_news_urdu.php?nid=29453&catid=2&flag=d
A year later, Barelvi activists of Sunni Tehrik protested outside the court and demanded Maqsood's acquittal.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/154168/rule-of-law-death-for-killing-two-accused-of-blasphemy/
22 Apr 2011: FAISALABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court on Monday found Maqsood Ahmad guilty of killing two blasphemy accused in 2010 and sentenced him to death on four counts. Ahmed, a resident of Chak 204 Rakh Branch (RB), was brought to the court amid tight security. A large crowd, including many Sunni Tehrik activits, had gathered in front of the court. Many of the activists expressed dissatisfaction with the verdict. ST’s Mahmood Ahmed said they would soon file an appeal against the verdict at the appropriate forum. He said the man had killed two blasphemers and deserved better treatment."
"Meanwhile, about a mile away from the kiln, in the narrow, red-brick lanes of the village, preparations were underway for a grand celebration as local clerics prepared to welcome Muhammad Khadim Hussain Rizvi, a well-known Barelvi Muslim scholar, to an Urs, a traditional South Asian celebration of the life and works of men considered to be Sufi saints. This event, organized by a religious political party, honored Ilmuddin, a Muslim man from Lahore who, in one of the most high-profile blasphemy cases ever to occur in then-undivided India, stabbed to death the publisher of a religiously charged pamphlet titled Rangeela Rasul (The Promiscuous Prophet) in 1929."
...."What
is unclear is who decided to take the matter to Muhammad
Hussain, the local maulvi (cleric). Just four
days earlier, Hussain had hosted the Urs for Ilmuddin"
Murder of Rashid and Sajid Emmanuel
LUBP's claim: Sipah Sahaba was responsible.
https://lubpak.com/archives/19428
"Children of General Zia-ul-Haq, i.e., terrorists of the Sipah-e-Sahaba, under the patronage of Pakistan’s ISI and Shahbaz Sharif’s government in the Punjab province, are back in action once again. Today (19 July 2010), Muslim extremists belonging to the Sipah-e-Sahaba (an affiliate terrorist organisation of the Taliban and Jamaat-e-Islami) shot dead Rahid Emmanuel and Sajjid Emmanuel in broad daylight in front of hundreds of people in district courts compound in Faisalabad today."
Reality check:
An initial report by Dunya TV suggested that the killer, Rana Maqsood Ahmad, was allegedly a member of a "banned organization".
http://dunyanews.tv/print_news_urdu.php?nid=29453&catid=2&flag=d
A year later, Barelvi activists of Sunni Tehrik protested outside the court and demanded Maqsood's acquittal.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/154168/rule-of-law-death-for-killing-two-accused-of-blasphemy/
22 Apr 2011: FAISALABAD: An Anti-Terrorism Court on Monday found Maqsood Ahmad guilty of killing two blasphemy accused in 2010 and sentenced him to death on four counts. Ahmed, a resident of Chak 204 Rakh Branch (RB), was brought to the court amid tight security. A large crowd, including many Sunni Tehrik activits, had gathered in front of the court. Many of the activists expressed dissatisfaction with the verdict. ST’s Mahmood Ahmed said they would soon file an appeal against the verdict at the appropriate forum. He said the man had killed two blasphemers and deserved better treatment."
Murder of an alleged blasphemer, Tufail Haider
LUBP's claim: A Deobandi police officer killed him.
https://lubpak.com/archives/326517
Reality check:
Sipah Sahaba did praise the killing as seen in the tweet below:
https://twitter.com/SSPDGKHAN/status/530285330805452801
However, the killer, ASI Syed Faraz Naveed is the grandson of Pir Syed Shah Wilayat of Astana Aaliya Dhama Sharif, Lala Musa, as pointed out in this report.
http://daily.urdupoint.com/news/city/gujrat/2014-11-07/important-news-193300.html
http://www.dailyjilawatan.com/%D8%B3%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9-%DA%A9%DB%92-%D8%B5%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%A6%DB%8C-%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%AD%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%86%D9%82%D8%B4%D8%A8%D9%86/
http://www.dailyjilawatan.com/%D8%B3%D9%86%DB%8C-%D8%AA%D8%AD%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9-%D9%BE%D9%86%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%A8-%DA%A9%DB%92-%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1-%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%B1-%D8%AD%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86-%D9%86%D9%82%D8%B4%D8%A8%D9%86%D8%AF/
http://www.geourdu.com/city-news/gujarat-peaceful-religious-riots-ghulam-mustafa-sharif-nasir-naqshbandi/
10 Nov 2014: Barelvi organizations declare Faraz Naveed a "Ghazi" and campaign for his release. Some Sunni Tehrik leaders visit Faraz Naveed's family and tell them their son had done justice to his Syed lineage. Pir Afzal Qadri said that Faraz has followed the tradition of Hussain."
http://labbaikyarasoolallah.net/gallery/718-ghazi-faraz-naveed-sahib
14 Nov 2014: Pir Afzal Qadri defending Syed Faraz Naveed.
Burning of Ahmadis' factory in Jehlum
LUBP's claim: Tahir Ashrafi’s hate mongering provokes attacks on Ahmadiyya
https://lubpak.com/archives/344131
https://lubpak.com/archives/343932
https://lubpak.com/archives/343877
After systematic anti-Ahmadi propaganda by Tahir Ashrafi and other hate clerics, in which Ahmadi factory owners had been falsely alleged of blasphemy, a group of extremist Deobandis and other Sunnis attacked a Chipboard factory in Jhelum on 20 November 2015. The factory was burnt to ashes. The fanatic Deobandi clerics and crowds also tried to burn the Ahmadi, Sunni and Shia employees of the factory alive.
After burning down the factory owned, the extremist mob ransacked an Ahmadi Mosque in Kala Gojran (Jehlum), cleansed it by burning its property in the streets and then offered Asar prayer inside. Now it’s a Deobandi Mosque!
Reality check:
Tahir Ashrafi has been instigating hate against Ahmadis but he condemned Jehlum incident.
https://twitter.com/abbtakk_updates/status/668332982407700480
https://twitter.com/geonews_urdu/status/668329802819117057
http://dailypakistan.com.pk/E-Paper/Lahore/2015-12-02/page-12/detail-7
https://youtu.be/X7u3FwtKYbQ?t=1m
Mobsters shouting 'Nara Risalat Ya Rasool Allah' (Barelvi slogan)
https://youtu.be/cdKxWaCaBhE?t=1m1s
A Barelvi cleric demanding strict action against Ahmadis. Crowd shouting 'Nara Risalat Ya Rasool Allah' and 'Nara Haideri Ya Ali'
Exhumation of Bhooro Bheel
LUBP's claim: "it was purely an SSP-ASWJ act."
https://lubpak.com/archives/286693
"Dawn went
on to quote “Maulvi Mithan, the prayer leader in a local mosque” as
claiming: “The town was shut in protest by the Muslims.”
Maulvi
Mithan is not a Shia nor a Brelvi. He is a Takfiri Deobandi mullah. And
who are the “members of the Muslim community”? Did any Shia take part
in it? No; it was purely an SSP-ASWJ act.
You
can imagine what the rest of the Pakistani newspapers wrote: They
simply did not mention even the word “seminary,” let alone even alluding
to “SSP-ASWJ”. It took an Indian publication to quote a police officer
who during his press briefing said,
“The
incident was caused by some clerics of the extremist outfit of Ahle
Sunaat Wal Jamaat, but later other Muslims joined in and dug up the body
and threw it away.”
Reality Check:
Sipah Sahaba was one of the religious parties who took part in the exhumation. It was a Barelvi cleric, Qari Abdul Basit, the adminsitator of Jamia Hanafia Sultan-ul-Madaris, who instigated local Muslims to take this action. Members of other religious groups (including Sipah Sahaba) and Pir Pagara's PML-F also took part in this act.
http://www.humanrights.asia/news/urgent-appeals/AHRC-UAC-133-2013
Oct 9, 2013: "The local Muslim religious leaders tried to instigate the other Muslims by announcing on the loudspeakers of the mosque that a non-Muslim was buried in a Muslim graveyard, pleading that it was against the teaching of Islam to allow a non-Muslim to be buried alongside Muslims in the same graveyard. These religious fundamentalists also invited the students of various Madressas, (Muslim seminaries) from nearby towns like Jhuddo and Matli, who came armed with sophisticated weapons and posed a great danger to the law and order situation of the area. They later led the mob to the graveyard, exhumed the body and then dragged it to a road side where it was dumped. The body remained there for over eight hours until the relatives buried the corpse in another place.
A
Muslim cleric has also issued a Fatwa, a Muslim declaration, that
Hindus cannot be buried in the Muslim graveyards to justify the act of
hooliganism against Hindus. Please find in the present appeal the picture of the Fatwa issued by a Muslim cleric sitting in Faisalabad, Punjab province."
A copy of a fatwa issued by Maulana Usman Ghani of a Barelvi madrassa, Jamiah Rizvia Mazharul Islam, Jhang Bazar, Faisalabad, Punjab province, and distributed in Badin by Qari Basit, administrator of a Barelvi madrassa Jamia Hanafia Sultan-ul-Madaris of Pangrio, Badin. The fatwa states that Hindus are not allowed to be buried in Muslim graveyard and it is permissible to exhume a Hindu buried in a Muslim graveyard.
http://www.nawaiwaqt.com.pk/front-page/09-Oct-2013/247271
http://www.bbc.com/urdu/pakistan/2013/10/131007_hindu_burial_controversy_zz
8 Oct 2013:
"پنگریو کے جامعہ مدرسہ حنفیہ کے استاد قاری باسط بھیل برداری کے دعویٰ مسترد کرتے ہیں ان کا کہنا ہے کہ مسلمانوں اور ہندؤوں کی ایک ہی جگہ پر تدفین نہیں ہو سکتی۔ بقول ان کے قبرستان میں بھیل برداری کی کسی بھی قبر کے آثار نہیں مل سکے اور وہ یہ ثابت کرنے میں بھی ناکام ہوئے ہیں کہ یہاں ان کے لوگوں کی تدفین ہوتی رہی ہے۔
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151702499472759
9 Oct 2013: "It is a "Jihad" for them to dig up a buried human being because he was a non-Muslim. They say they belong to Sunni Tehrik and their Pir is Ayoub Jan Sarhandi. — in Pangrio, Sindh, Pakistan."
A copy of a fatwa issued by Maulana Usman Ghani of a Barelvi madrassa, Jamiah Rizvia Mazharul Islam, Jhang Bazar, Faisalabad, Punjab province, and distributed in Badin by Qari Basit, administrator of a Barelvi madrassa Jamia Hanafia Sultan-ul-Madaris of Pangrio, Badin. The fatwa states that Hindus are not allowed to be buried in Muslim graveyard and it is permissible to exhume a Hindu buried in a Muslim graveyard.
http://www.nawaiwaqt.com.pk/front-page/09-Oct-2013/247271
http://www.bbc.com/urdu/pakistan/2013/10/131007_hindu_burial_controversy_zz
8 Oct 2013:
"پنگریو کے جامعہ مدرسہ حنفیہ کے استاد قاری باسط بھیل برداری کے دعویٰ مسترد کرتے ہیں ان کا کہنا ہے کہ مسلمانوں اور ہندؤوں کی ایک ہی جگہ پر تدفین نہیں ہو سکتی۔ بقول ان کے قبرستان میں بھیل برداری کی کسی بھی قبر کے آثار نہیں مل سکے اور وہ یہ ثابت کرنے میں بھی ناکام ہوئے ہیں کہ یہاں ان کے لوگوں کی تدفین ہوتی رہی ہے۔
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151702499472759
9 Oct 2013: "It is a "Jihad" for them to dig up a buried human being because he was a non-Muslim. They say they belong to Sunni Tehrik and their Pir is Ayoub Jan Sarhandi. — in Pangrio, Sindh, Pakistan."
http://tribune.com.pk/story/615794/resting-not-in-peace-protests-in-badin-against-mob-digging-out-hindu-mans-grave/
10 Oct
2013: "The Pangrio police have nominated 20 suspects,
including Zafar Arain, Khamiso Laghari [local PML-F leader] and Akbar
Khoso, in an FIR lodged by the deceased Bhuro Bheel’s brother.
However, no arrests have been made so far as some local influential
men and the clerics want to end the dispute through negotiations.
According to sources, two local leaders belonging to the Pakistan
Muslim League-Functional, Pir Hamid Shah Rashdi and Mir Zahid Hussain
Talpur, Maulvi Mithan Sikandari, Qazi Abdul Basit and some clerics
from Hyderabad have intervened on behalf of the accused persons.
“They want us to quash the FIR and resolve the matter amicably,”
a source close to the bereaved Bheel family told The
Express Tribune."
http://tribune.com.pk/story/616224/hindus-body-dug-up-local-clerics-landlord-withdraw-their-support/
11 Oct 2013: "According to sources privy to the matter, Pakistan Muslim League-Functional’s Pir Hamid Shah Rashdi and Mir Zahid Hussain Talpur, Maulvi Mithan Sikandari, Qazi Abdul Basit and some clerics from Hyderabad were intervening on behalf of the accused men. However, all of them have backed out."
http://www.dawn.com/news/1049740
14 Oct 2013: HYDERABAD: Political and religious leaders of Pangrio town have rejected claims about desecration of a Bheel’s body and accused Sindhi nationalist parties and a local landlord of inciting communal hatred between the two communities who have been living in peace for decades. Speaking at a press conference at the Hyderabad Press Club on Monday, local PML-F leader Mohammad Peeral Khoso, Maulvi Mohammad Mithan Khoso, Maulvi Abdul Quddus Naqshbandi and leader of Pangrio chapter of Sunni Tehreek Rana Sajid Ali Qadri said the landlord and nationalist parties were defaming Muslims over the burial for their vested interests."
"The
crowd had come together through the efforts of one Qari Abdul
Basit, the administrator of a madrasa in Pangrio. Working through
local mosques, he had distributed a fatwa against the burial of
non-Muslims in Muslim graveyards. He also had prayer leaders announce
that those who had exhumed Bhoro Bheel’s body had discharged their
religious duty and had not committed any crime." ......
Sultanul Madaris,
a madrasa set up by the settlers, is said to have played a pivotal role
in fanning religious emotions over Bhoro Bheel’s burial. In another
instance of outside influence, Basit, the madrasa’s administrator, had obtained the fatwa against Bhoro Bheel’s burial from a madarasa in Faisalabad."http://dunya.com.pk/index.php/city/karachi/2013-11-19/258555#.V59lpZOAOko
19 Nov 2013:
پنگریو کے حاجی فقیر قبرستان سے ہندو نوجوان بھیر و بھیل کی لاش قبر سے نکالنے کے واقعے کی نئی ایف آئی آر کے اندراج کی کوششوں کے خلاف سنی تحریک کی کال پر پنگریو شہر میں مکمل ہڑتال کی گئی اور ریلی نکالی گئی، ریلی کے شرکاء نے شہر بھر کا گشت کیا ، بعد ازاں کوسٹر اسٹینڈ پرجلسے سے خطاب کرتے ہوئے پیر ایوب جان سرہندی نے کہا کہ بھیر و بھیل واقعے کی آڑ میں اسلام اور پاکستان دشمن قوتیں ہندو مسلم فساد کرانا چاہتی ہیں تاکہ پاکستان کو غیر مستحکم کیا جاسکے، انہوں نے کہا کہ سندھ میں ہندو مسلم تنازع کا کوئی ایشو نہیں ہے ، پاکستان کے ایٹمی ملک بننے کے بعد بھارت، اسرائیل اور دیگر ممالک پاکستان میں فسادات پھیلانا چاہتے ہیں، اس کے لئے یہ ممالک اپنے تنخواہ داروں کو استعمال کر رہے ہیں، انہوں نے کہا کہ سندھ میں ہندو اور مسلمان ہمیشہ سے اکھٹے رہتے آئے ہیں مگر کچھ عناصر ان میں اختلافات پیدا کرکے اپنے مقاصد حاصل کرنا چاہتے ہیں ،انہوں نے کہا کہ قوم پرستوں نے اس واقعے کی آڑ میں پاکستان، اسلام اورمسلمانوں کے خلاف پروپیگنڈہ مہم شروع کر رکھی ہے۔
http://dunya.com.pk/index.php/city/karachi/2014-04-06/341126#.VtGOYZOLTwc
Jamia Hanfia Sultan-ul-Madaris in Pangrio is a Barelvi madrassa.
Exhumation of an Ahmadi girl
LUBP's claim: Deobandis did it and Najam Sethi was complicit.
https://lubpak.com/archives/286693
"Having killed thousands of Shias, demolished countless schools and shrines, and kidnapped and forcibly converted hundreds of Christian and Hindu women, the Takfiri-Deobandis have been embolden by the realization that they are above the law. Now they have decided to take on the dead too. They have found their accomplices all over. When Najam Sethi took over as Punjab’s caretaker-chief minister, he made this statement, “Nobody is my friend and nobody is my relative during the time I am the Chief Minister of Punjab”. Soon after he took over, the Takfiris went into action in Kasur, only 30 kilometres from Sethi’s office, and carried out a violent campaign to have an Ahmadi girl thrown out of a ‘Muslim’ graveyard. Many Ahmadis appealed to Sethi to stand by the dead girl’s human rights. Sethi’s response was typical of his ‘principled’ politics: It was his own subordinates, government officials, who supervised the removal of the Ahmadi corpse from the graveyard."
Reality Check:
Deobandis were indeed involved but they were not the only ones involved. The fatwa for exhumation was issued by a Barelvi cleric, Saadat Ali Qadri who was the administrator of Jamia Hanafi, Kasur
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/main/02-Apr-2006/ahmadi-girl-reburied-after-extremists-object
2 Apr 2006: LAHORE: Local authorities dug up the grave of an Ahmadi girl in a Muslim graveyard in Chanda Singh village, Kasur, 10 days after her death and moved her body to an Ahmadi cemetery under pressure from clerics. Kasur DPO Captain (r) Mobeen Ahmed supervised the reburial on March 18, Daily Times has learnt. District police officials confirmed the report and conceded that it was done under pressure from the Majlis-e-Tahafuz-e-Khatam-e-Nabuwat and local clerics.
Nadia Hanif, 17, died of an illness on March 8. She had been running an SOS village school and used to teach kids the Quran. "No one objected to her being buried here at the time," her elder brother told Daily Times. Several Muslims attended her funeral, he added, though the local imam refused to offer Namaz-e-Janaza for the girl. After the funeral, extremists started protesting against her burial in a Muslim graveyard. A local cleric also got a fatwa from Saadat Ali Qadri, who runs a seminary, stating that Ahmadis cannot be buried in a Muslim graveyard and digging up the body is permissible."
Saadat Ali Qadri was the administrator of (Barelvi)Jamia Hanafi, Kasur: http://search.jang.com.pk/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=161074
No organized Shia militancy in Pakistan after 1990s
LUPB's claim: After the demise of Sipah-e-Muhammad in 1990s, there has never been a terrorist militia among Shias of Pakistan.
https://lubpak.com/archives/322974
90ء کی دهائی کے آخر میں سپاہ محمد کے خاتمے کے بعد شیعہ میں کبهی بهی دہشت گردی کی کوئی ملیشیا نہیں بن سکی کیونکہ شیعہ کی جو مذهبی اور پولیٹکل قیادت ہے اس نے اس کی حمایت نہیں
https://lubpak.com/archives/306531
"The Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) is a phantom organization which was created by Pakistani establishment to get rid of some rogue Jihadist Deobandi militants and was soon annihiliated by the same establishment in mid 1990s. The orgnaization no longer exists and its only leader Ghulam Raza Naqvi is languishing in a jail in Punjab for more than 20 years without being given a fiar hearing in a court of law. Of course, no such organization (SMP) exists today. If a Shia extremist group existed today, then surely in addition to 22,000 Shia Muslims killed so far, we would also have witnessed deadbodies of 22,000 takfiri Deobandi terrorists and hate clerics."
Reality check:
Unlike Deobandi militants, Shia militants prefer to keep a low profile (no public declaration about claiming responsibility of their attacks) and for sure the latter have contributed much less than the former to the sectarian violence in Pakistan. Sipah-e-Muhammad, the Shia militant outfit, faced a strong crackdown in 1990s and virtually died down but its splinter groups (such as Mehdi Force) have been involved in attacks on Deobandi clerics and militants. Apart from Sipah-e-Muhammad and its splinters such as Lashkar-e-Mehdi, some Shia members of MQM have also been involved in sectarian killings. Shia leadership in Pakistan has publicly neither supported nor condemned terrorists of Sipah Muhammad and affiliates; their stance is that of ambivalence or condonement.
http://www.urdu.shiitenews.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=10487:2014-09-14-08-25-46
شاکر نقوی: اواخر 1996ء میں ایسا ہوا کہ کچھ اپنوں اور کچھ ایجنسیوں کی مہربانی سے سپاہ محمد کو برباد کر دیا گیا۔
http://sindhpolice.gov.pk/most_wanted/redbook-6th-edition/redbook_6_edition.pdf
Wanted by Sindh police: Terrorists affiliated with Shia groups (page 59-74)
https://www.punjabpolice.gov.pk/system/files/Part%203_1.pdf
Wanted by Punjab Police: Terrorists affiliated with Shia groups
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/national/10-Dec-2004/police-and-armed-guards-arrest-militant
http://www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/53102-baqiyatullah-men-arrested-with-rocket-grenades/
http://www.dawn.com/news/387673
4 Apr 2005:
Crime Investigation Department announced on Sunday arrest of five activists of a sectarian organization, Baquiatullah, an off-shoot of the banned Tehrik-i-Jaffaria Pakistan, and seized a huge quantity of weapons.
CID DSP Raja Umer Khattab told reporters that the suspects had escaped after an encounter with police near Ancholi in Federal B Area a few days ago.
...
Three men, Muzaffar Ali alias Baloch, Mustafa Kirmani and Asghar Ali, were arrested when weapons were found in the car.
The three led police to their hideouts from where Shujaat Ali and Raza Ali were arrested.
Mr Khattab said that Baquiatullah had been formed in the mid-90s by Muzaffar Kirmani who was later killed. After his death, the command of the organization was taken over by his brother Mustafa Kirmani who was arrested in the operation on Saturday night.
Some other members of the group, including Imtiaz Jafri, Abbas Ali Ashur and Ali Raza Farishta, had been arrested earlier, he added.
....
He said the suspects had been wanted in four cases registered in Gulbahar, Khwaja Ajmer Nagri and Buffer Zone police stations, relating to the killing of 25 people, including activists of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan.
http://www.bbc.com/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/03/070304_shamzai_killer_ns.shtml
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/karachi/05-Mar-2007/shamzai-killer-arrested-cid
http://www.dawn.com/news/235961/suspect-in-high-profile-murder-cases-held
4 Mar 2007: "CID officials said the militant, belonging to the Sipah-i-Muhammad Pakistan, was wanted for his alleged involvement in several high-profile killings and sectarian attacks.
Hammad Riaz Naqvi, they said, was arrested after an encounter in Aswan Town of the Malir district.
They said that acting on a tip, a police party which reached the area saw four men on two motorcycles entering the locality.
“Police warned them to surrender, but they opened fire and tried to escape. Police returned fire and arrested one of them, Hammad Riaz Naqvi,” said CID SP Raja Umer Khitab.
He said the accused lived in the same area. Three of his accomplices, who escaped, were identified as Askari, Rauf and Qalbe Abbas.
Police also claimed to have found a bag in Naqvi’s possession containing two hand grenades, a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a pistol and ammunition.
“He was directly and indirectly involved in several high-profile killings and attacks.”
The CID official said the accused was a member of an inter-provincial gang of the banned outfit and had carried out several attacks in Punjab and Sindh since 2001.
Preliminary investigations, he said, showed that the man was involved in the murders of Maulana Azam Tariq in Islamabad and Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai in Karachi.
Mufti Shamzai was shot dead in May 2004, while Azam Tariq, the former head of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, was gunned down with his driver and three bodyguards in Oct 2003. At the time of his death, Azam Tariq was a member of parliament.
The officials also accused the same people of killing Mufti Mohammad Jameel and Nazeer Taunsvi in an attack in New Town in Sept 2004. In a separate attack, Mufti Attiqur Rehman, his son Ammar and Maulana Irshadul Haq were killed in Preedy area in June 2005.
They said that the same group, including the suspect, were allegedly involved in the explosions at a gathering in Multan to mark the first death anniversary of Maulana Azam Tariq in Oct 2004, which killed 53 people and injured more than 100.
SP Khitab said the gang’s first attack was on motor-mechanic Dakhtiar, an activist of Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), in 2001, who was shot dead.
Some weeks later, they attacked Haroon Qasmi, a leader and legal adviser of the banned SSP in Ferozabad area, in which the latter was injured. A year later, they attacked Mr Qasmi’s father Mohammad Ishaq and a brother. Mr Ishaq was killed. The accused attacked Mr Qasmi the third time in Jan 2005 killing him and a police constable.
The CID official described the gang as one of the most feared terrorist group in the country. According to him, it was headed by Dr Muntazir of Punjab.
“Dr Muntazir specifies targets and order others to plan the attack,” said a police official.
He said that Qalbe Abbas, who escaped after the encounter, was a police constable in Islamabad. He got himself transferred to Sindh Police in Karachi after the murder of Maulana Azam Tariq.
“Qalbe Abbas had mysteriously disappeared a couple of weeks earlier after the arrest of two of his gang members -- Mudassir and Mohammad Ali -- from Islamabad,” said a police official.
Sources said that Qalbe Abbas had the last posting as a police guard at the foreign affairs office in Karachi. The CID police had launched an extensive search operation in cooperation with Islamabad CID and Punjab police."
http://www.dawn.com/news/938621/re-emergence-of-sectarian-organisations
25 Aug 2008: "Background interviews with various police and intelligence officials revealed that militants of two banned outfits, Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) and Sipah-i-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP), have returned to the city and are now busy in regrouping and expanding their network." ....
"while the LJ militants have links with some religious parties, some local leaders of a major political party were allegedly patronising the SMP militants.
http://www.dawn.com/news/595829/eight-men-arrested-on-target-killing-charges
http://www.dawn.com/news/595892/seven-militants-sent-to-lock-up
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/277868
http://tribune.com.pk/story/98705/sectarian-violence-eight-target-killers-remanded/
http://tribune.com.pk/story/98230/target-killings-doctor-killing-mehdi-force-busted/
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/26/city/karachi/%E2%80%98200-iranian-trained-sipah-e-muhammad-activists-hunting-down-aswj-workers%E2%80%99/
26 May 2011: "More than 200 activists of Sipah-e-Muhammad, trained from Iran and heavily armed, are hunting down workers of their rival sect, confessed Ali Muntazir, an activist of Sipah-e-Muhammad arrested last week from the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Sindh Police. Muntazir confessed to have killed more than 20 activists of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), formerly the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan. His victims included Rehan and Nadeem, both killed in 2010 in the jurisdiction of Airport police station. “Our high ups instructed us to kill ASWJ leaders and activists, and provided us with weapons and a list of leaders,” he told investigators. The terrorist also revealed that Sipah-e-Muhammad activists are imparted training in Iran, and like his other comrades, he made several visits for the purpose."
http://tribune.com.pk/story/181938/possible-business-angle-al-qaeda-hand-ruled-out-in-saudi-diplomats-murder/
https://lubpak.com/archives/322974
90ء کی دهائی کے آخر میں سپاہ محمد کے خاتمے کے بعد شیعہ میں کبهی بهی دہشت گردی کی کوئی ملیشیا نہیں بن سکی کیونکہ شیعہ کی جو مذهبی اور پولیٹکل قیادت ہے اس نے اس کی حمایت نہیں
https://lubpak.com/archives/306531
"The Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) is a phantom organization which was created by Pakistani establishment to get rid of some rogue Jihadist Deobandi militants and was soon annihiliated by the same establishment in mid 1990s. The orgnaization no longer exists and its only leader Ghulam Raza Naqvi is languishing in a jail in Punjab for more than 20 years without being given a fiar hearing in a court of law. Of course, no such organization (SMP) exists today. If a Shia extremist group existed today, then surely in addition to 22,000 Shia Muslims killed so far, we would also have witnessed deadbodies of 22,000 takfiri Deobandi terrorists and hate clerics."
Reality check:
Unlike Deobandi militants, Shia militants prefer to keep a low profile (no public declaration about claiming responsibility of their attacks) and for sure the latter have contributed much less than the former to the sectarian violence in Pakistan. Sipah-e-Muhammad, the Shia militant outfit, faced a strong crackdown in 1990s and virtually died down but its splinter groups (such as Mehdi Force) have been involved in attacks on Deobandi clerics and militants. Apart from Sipah-e-Muhammad and its splinters such as Lashkar-e-Mehdi, some Shia members of MQM have also been involved in sectarian killings. Shia leadership in Pakistan has publicly neither supported nor condemned terrorists of Sipah Muhammad and affiliates; their stance is that of ambivalence or condonement.
http://www.urdu.shiitenews.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=10487:2014-09-14-08-25-46
شاکر نقوی: ہمارا نقطہ نظر یہی ہے کہ جب تک ہم اپنا تحفظ بندوق سے نہیں کریں گے، کوئی بھی ہماری مدد کو نہیں آئے گا، نہ گورنمنٹ اور نہ کوئی اور، شیعہ قتل عام جنرل ضیاء کے دور میں 1986ء میں شروع ہوا، جب جہادی تنظیمیں بنائی گئیں، وہی آج دہشت گردوں کی گروہ بن گئی ہیں۔ ہم نے شیعہ قتل عام کو روکنے کے لئے 1994ء میں سپاہ محمد (ص) بنائی۔ ہم نے بھی اعلان کیا کہ جہاں کہیں بھی ہمارا کوئی شیعہ قتل ہوگا تو ہم اس کا بدلہ لیں گے۔ الحمد للہ ہم اپنے اس مشن میں کامیاب رہے۔ اس وقت جب ہمارے علماء کہتے تھے کہ ہم جنازے اٹھا اٹھا کر تھک چکے ہیں۔ سپاہ محمد کے ری ایکشن سے یہ ہوا کہ سپاہ صحابہ کے اکابرین کہنے لگے کہ ہم جنازے اٹھا اٹھا کے تھک گئے ہیں۔
سپاہ محمد کے اس رد عمل ہی سے 1995ء ملی یکجہتی کونسل وجود میں آئی۔ بڑی دینی جماعتون کے اکابرین جن میں قاضی حسین احمد، مولانا فضل الرحمن، ساجد نقوی، ساجد میر، مولانا شاہ احمد نورانی مرحوم اور دیگر اکٹھے ہوئے۔ اگلی میٹنگ انہوں نے کراچی میں رکھی، جس کے لئے انہوں نے کہا کہ ہم سپاہ محمد اور سپاہ صحابہ کو ایک پلیٹ فارم پر اکٹھا کریں گے۔ ہم نے ایک شرط رکھی کہ اگر کمیٹی مولانا شاہ احمد نورانی صاحب کو چیئرمین بناتی ہے تو تب ہم اس میں شامل ہوں گے، ورنہ ہم کسی دیوبندی اور اہل حدیث کے کہنے پہ ملی یکجہتی کونسل میں نہیں جائیں گے۔ لہذا مولانا شاہ احمد نورانی کو اس دو طرفہ قتل و غارت کو روکنے کے لئے چیئرمین بنایا گیا۔ لہذا ہم اس میں بہت حد تک کامیاب رہے۔
...شاکر نقوی: اواخر 1996ء میں ایسا ہوا کہ کچھ اپنوں اور کچھ ایجنسیوں کی مہربانی سے سپاہ محمد کو برباد کر دیا گیا۔
http://sindhpolice.gov.pk/most_wanted/redbook-6th-edition/redbook_6_edition.pdf
Wanted by Sindh police: Terrorists affiliated with Shia groups (page 59-74)
https://www.punjabpolice.gov.pk/system/files/Part%203_1.pdf
Wanted by Punjab Police: Terrorists affiliated with Shia groups
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/national/10-Dec-2004/police-and-armed-guards-arrest-militant
10 Dec 2004: "LAHORE:
Railway police officials and armed private guards arrested a militant
of banned organisation Sipah-e-Muhammad after a shootout near
Sheikhupura railway station on Wednesday that claimed a constable's
life, sources told Daily Times."
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Bombing of Sipah Sahaba meeting in Multan (October 2004)
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/national/08-Oct-2004/sipah-e-muhammad-prime-suspect-in-multan-bombing-investigators
8 Oct 2004: "LAHORE: Investigators said banned organisation Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) was the prime suspect in the Multan bombing on Thursday. A major crackdown was launched against SMP activists throughout Punjab and eight were arrested in Multan and its adjoining areas, official sources told Daily Times.
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Bombing of Sipah Sahaba meeting in Multan (October 2004)
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/national/08-Oct-2004/sipah-e-muhammad-prime-suspect-in-multan-bombing-investigators
8 Oct 2004: "LAHORE: Investigators said banned organisation Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) was the prime suspect in the Multan bombing on Thursday. A major crackdown was launched against SMP activists throughout Punjab and eight were arrested in Multan and its adjoining areas, official sources told Daily Times.
"The
government formed 20 teams of officers from intelligence and security
agencies for a crackdown in various parts of the province," sources
said. "Among militant Shia organisations, only SMP had the capability to
carry out such an attack," sources said, "but the SMP has been quite
inactive since the arrest of its chief, Ghulam Raza Naqvi. Many of its
frontline activists have fled the country."
The bombing of the Lahore Sessions Court in 1997, in which Sipah-e-Sahaba leader Maulana Ziaur Rehman Farooqi died, showed that SMP had the capability to use remotely triggered explosive devices. Though the man who executed that bombing, Muharram Ali, was hanged to death, the mastermind Dr Qaiser Abbas is still at large. Dr Qaiser is an explosives specialist. He fled Pakistan after the incident.
"If the SMP is behind the incident, it means Dr Qaiser is back in Pakistan because he is the only SMP man who can make such devices," said a security official. He said security agencies were surprised by the SMP's re-emergence. "We though the SMP had collapsed after the murder of its supreme leader Murid Abbas Yazdani and the arrest of Naqvi."
The rest of SMP's prominent leaders and activists fled the country. Maulana Zulqarnain with a Rs 1 million bounty on his head escaped to a neighbouring country in 1999. Rizwan Haider, with Rs 500,000 on his head, is also settled abroad. Muhammad Ali, Naqvi's right hand man, was arrested with him. He broke jail and escaped, but was recaptured.
"The main question is who is leading SMP and how has it reorganised itself?" security officials said.
AS Qamar adds: Police detained Ansar Kazmi, a Shia, for interrogation. He lives in the area where the incident occurred.
http://www.arabnews.com/node/256460
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The bombing of the Lahore Sessions Court in 1997, in which Sipah-e-Sahaba leader Maulana Ziaur Rehman Farooqi died, showed that SMP had the capability to use remotely triggered explosive devices. Though the man who executed that bombing, Muharram Ali, was hanged to death, the mastermind Dr Qaiser Abbas is still at large. Dr Qaiser is an explosives specialist. He fled Pakistan after the incident.
"If the SMP is behind the incident, it means Dr Qaiser is back in Pakistan because he is the only SMP man who can make such devices," said a security official. He said security agencies were surprised by the SMP's re-emergence. "We though the SMP had collapsed after the murder of its supreme leader Murid Abbas Yazdani and the arrest of Naqvi."
The rest of SMP's prominent leaders and activists fled the country. Maulana Zulqarnain with a Rs 1 million bounty on his head escaped to a neighbouring country in 1999. Rizwan Haider, with Rs 500,000 on his head, is also settled abroad. Muhammad Ali, Naqvi's right hand man, was arrested with him. He broke jail and escaped, but was recaptured.
"The main question is who is leading SMP and how has it reorganised itself?" security officials said.
AS Qamar adds: Police detained Ansar Kazmi, a Shia, for interrogation. He lives in the area where the incident occurred.
http://www.arabnews.com/node/256460
12 Oct 2004: "Iran-Pakistan border has been sealed and police in Balochistan have been put on high alert to arrest Multan bombing mastermind Dr. Qaiser Raza, a militant of Shia group Sipah-e-Muhammad. Sikandar Hayat, the district police officer of Multan, announced the arrest of another militant Asad Abbas Shah for providing financial assistance to the terrorists. He said police investigation had revealed that Dr. Raza had stayed at Shah’s home for nearly a month and a white car used in the bombing had been seen at his residence at Kumharanwala, Multan. However Shah’s brother and family members denied the report.
Hayat said: “We are confident that Dr. Raza is the mastermind of the Multan bombing. He also planned to kill Maulana Azam Tariq in Lahore through Mehram Ali. We sought help from the government of Balochistan to prevent him from crossing the border.” He said that one of the robbers of the white car, Ali Taqi, was also taken into custody.""
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http://www.shiachat.com/forum/topic/53102-baqiyatullah-men-arrested-with-rocket-grenades/
http://www.dawn.com/news/387673
4 Apr 2005:
Crime Investigation Department announced on Sunday arrest of five activists of a sectarian organization, Baquiatullah, an off-shoot of the banned Tehrik-i-Jaffaria Pakistan, and seized a huge quantity of weapons.
CID DSP Raja Umer Khattab told reporters that the suspects had escaped after an encounter with police near Ancholi in Federal B Area a few days ago.
...
Three men, Muzaffar Ali alias Baloch, Mustafa Kirmani and Asghar Ali, were arrested when weapons were found in the car.
The three led police to their hideouts from where Shujaat Ali and Raza Ali were arrested.
Mr Khattab said that Baquiatullah had been formed in the mid-90s by Muzaffar Kirmani who was later killed. After his death, the command of the organization was taken over by his brother Mustafa Kirmani who was arrested in the operation on Saturday night.
Some other members of the group, including Imtiaz Jafri, Abbas Ali Ashur and Ali Raza Farishta, had been arrested earlier, he added.
....
He said the suspects had been wanted in four cases registered in Gulbahar, Khwaja Ajmer Nagri and Buffer Zone police stations, relating to the killing of 25 people, including activists of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan.
http://www.bbc.com/urdu/pakistan/story/2007/03/070304_shamzai_killer_ns.shtml
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/karachi/05-Mar-2007/shamzai-killer-arrested-cid
http://www.dawn.com/news/235961/suspect-in-high-profile-murder-cases-held
4 Mar 2007: "CID officials said the militant, belonging to the Sipah-i-Muhammad Pakistan, was wanted for his alleged involvement in several high-profile killings and sectarian attacks.
Hammad Riaz Naqvi, they said, was arrested after an encounter in Aswan Town of the Malir district.
They said that acting on a tip, a police party which reached the area saw four men on two motorcycles entering the locality.
“Police warned them to surrender, but they opened fire and tried to escape. Police returned fire and arrested one of them, Hammad Riaz Naqvi,” said CID SP Raja Umer Khitab.
He said the accused lived in the same area. Three of his accomplices, who escaped, were identified as Askari, Rauf and Qalbe Abbas.
Police also claimed to have found a bag in Naqvi’s possession containing two hand grenades, a Kalashnikov assault rifle, a pistol and ammunition.
“He was directly and indirectly involved in several high-profile killings and attacks.”
The CID official said the accused was a member of an inter-provincial gang of the banned outfit and had carried out several attacks in Punjab and Sindh since 2001.
Preliminary investigations, he said, showed that the man was involved in the murders of Maulana Azam Tariq in Islamabad and Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai in Karachi.
Mufti Shamzai was shot dead in May 2004, while Azam Tariq, the former head of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, was gunned down with his driver and three bodyguards in Oct 2003. At the time of his death, Azam Tariq was a member of parliament.
The officials also accused the same people of killing Mufti Mohammad Jameel and Nazeer Taunsvi in an attack in New Town in Sept 2004. In a separate attack, Mufti Attiqur Rehman, his son Ammar and Maulana Irshadul Haq were killed in Preedy area in June 2005.
They said that the same group, including the suspect, were allegedly involved in the explosions at a gathering in Multan to mark the first death anniversary of Maulana Azam Tariq in Oct 2004, which killed 53 people and injured more than 100.
SP Khitab said the gang’s first attack was on motor-mechanic Dakhtiar, an activist of Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), in 2001, who was shot dead.
Some weeks later, they attacked Haroon Qasmi, a leader and legal adviser of the banned SSP in Ferozabad area, in which the latter was injured. A year later, they attacked Mr Qasmi’s father Mohammad Ishaq and a brother. Mr Ishaq was killed. The accused attacked Mr Qasmi the third time in Jan 2005 killing him and a police constable.
The CID official described the gang as one of the most feared terrorist group in the country. According to him, it was headed by Dr Muntazir of Punjab.
“Dr Muntazir specifies targets and order others to plan the attack,” said a police official.
He said that Qalbe Abbas, who escaped after the encounter, was a police constable in Islamabad. He got himself transferred to Sindh Police in Karachi after the murder of Maulana Azam Tariq.
“Qalbe Abbas had mysteriously disappeared a couple of weeks earlier after the arrest of two of his gang members -- Mudassir and Mohammad Ali -- from Islamabad,” said a police official.
Sources said that Qalbe Abbas had the last posting as a police guard at the foreign affairs office in Karachi. The CID police had launched an extensive search operation in cooperation with Islamabad CID and Punjab police."
http://www.dawn.com/news/938621/re-emergence-of-sectarian-organisations
25 Aug 2008: "Background interviews with various police and intelligence officials revealed that militants of two banned outfits, Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) and Sipah-i-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP), have returned to the city and are now busy in regrouping and expanding their network." ....
"while the LJ militants have links with some religious parties, some local leaders of a major political party were allegedly patronising the SMP militants.
Quoting information that had been gleaned from some suspects, sources said that a wanted militant, Ali Mustehsan, is reportedly operating the network of the SMP in the city and is acting on the directives of Zulqarnain Haider, who had recently returned to Karachi and succeeded in reuniting the two factions of the SMP, Baqiatullah and Pasban-i-Islam. They said that other SMP militants including Muhib alias Yawar Abbas, Mohsin Mehdi, Hashim Raza, Asim Zaidi, Rashid alias Hasan, Sarfaraz and Azhar, are also in the city and planning a major strike."
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/karachi/09-Aug-2009/ludhianvi-s-assassin-held
9 Jan 2009: "Police have arrested Mohammad Rashid, a wanted terrorist, said to be involved in high profile sectarian cases including the assassination of Maulana Mohammad Yousuf Ludhianvi of the Binori Town Masjid and other religious scholars.
9 Jan 2009: "Police have arrested Mohammad Rashid, a wanted terrorist, said to be involved in high profile sectarian cases including the assassination of Maulana Mohammad Yousuf Ludhianvi of the Binori Town Masjid and other religious scholars.
Mohammad Rashid alias Hassan Mota alias Ali Asad alias Asad Mota, 30, son of Kalu Bhai was arrested by the Shah Faisal police on Saturday. .....Rashid was wanted by CID in various cases of sectarian violence. His name was placed on page 3 of the 'Red Book' while the government had also kept Rs 1 million as reward money for his arrest.
According to the Red Book, Rashid is a hardcore terrorist and is associated with the banned Tehreek-e-Jafferia Pakistan and its sister organisations Sipah-e-Mohammad Pakistan and Pasban-e-Islam.
On May 18, 2000, Rashid and his associates attacked Ludhianvi, the Naib Ameer of Aalmi Majlise Tahffuze Khatm-e-Nubuwwat. Ludhianvi and his driver were killed in the incident while his son and a vendor were wounded. Rashid was declared an absconder in an FIR registered at the Jauharabad police station in Gulberg Town.
On January 28, 2001, Rashid accompanied by his associates opened fire on a van heading to Jamia Farooqia. Maulana Enayatullah Khan, Maulana Hameed-ur-Rehman, Mufti Muhammad Iqbal, Hafiz Talha Iqbal and van driver Abdul Hameed were killed in the ambush. Abdul Sattar, Yasir Iqbal, Bilal and police constable Ramzan sustained bullet injuries. Rashid was one of the four accused including Qasim Zaidi, Rizwan and Hassan Akhtar was nominated in the murder of Jamia Farooqia scholars and was awarded a death sentence by a court. Rashid was also wanted by the police in a case registered at the Korangi Industrial Area over an attempted murderous attack on religious scholar Maulana Allah Wasaiyo Siddiqui. Siddiqui was injured in the attack."
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/karachi/20-Feb-2010/man-arrested-for-ssp-leader-s-murder
https://nation.com.pk/23-Feb-2010/accused-sent-on-remand-for-3-days
https://wwrn.org/articles/32707/
20 Feb 2010: "KARACHI: Punjab police's Crime Investigation Department (CID), in collaboration with its Sindh police counterpart, on Friday arrested a man allegedly involved in the assassination of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) Ameer Maulana Azam Tariq.
http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/karachi/20-Feb-2010/man-arrested-for-ssp-leader-s-murder
https://nation.com.pk/23-Feb-2010/accused-sent-on-remand-for-3-days
https://wwrn.org/articles/32707/
20 Feb 2010: "KARACHI: Punjab police's Crime Investigation Department (CID), in collaboration with its Sindh police counterpart, on Friday arrested a man allegedly involved in the assassination of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) Ameer Maulana Azam Tariq.
Syed Hammad Riaz Naqvi, an active worker of the Sipah-e-Mohammad Pakistan (SMP), was arrested in the premises of the City Courts, Karachi when he went there for a hearing.
Hammad, a resident of Rizvia Society, was arrested in different cases of sectarian violence in 2007; however he was bailed in 2009 and was currently facing several trials in the court. The accused man, who was declared an absconder by the court, was wanted by Islamabad's Golra police and the CID in the murder case of Maulana Azam Tariq, who was an MNA at the time he was killed."
http://www.dawn.com/news/595829/eight-men-arrested-on-target-killing-charges
http://www.dawn.com/news/595892/seven-militants-sent-to-lock-up
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/277868
http://tribune.com.pk/story/98705/sectarian-violence-eight-target-killers-remanded/
http://tribune.com.pk/story/98230/target-killings-doctor-killing-mehdi-force-busted/
3 Jan 2011: Karachi: The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Capital City Police has busted a key sectarian network, the Mehdi force, which operated under the umbrella of the banned organisation Sipah-e-Mohammad. .......
Tanvir Abbas alias Kashif alias Mehdi along with Abrar Hussain, Pervez Zaidi, Riffat alias Jehangir and Hasnain Abbas were arrested in the first encounter near NED University with a vehicle with fake official numberplates (GS-0022) early Sunday morning. Later, Sikandar alias Sajid, Ali Mehdi alias Bubblo and Kumail were arrested during separate raids. All eight suspects hail from the city and most of them were residents of Orangi town, Buffer zone, Malir and New Karachi. They have been accused of being involved in at least a dozen sectarian target killings, including the murder of three doctors. The group targeted sympathisers and members of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Mohammad....Describing the modus operandi of the Mehdi force, Khattab told The Express Tribune that it was a well-trained extremist unit that had various sources of funding. “The mastermind Tanvir Abbas used to pay Rs15,000 as a salary to his men who would pull the trigger and Rs8,000 to those who conducted surveillance of the targets,” he said, adding that the suspect would also organise weapons and explosives training to the men at facilities in hideouts in the northern areas, including Parachinar and Gilgit. The group was also alleged to be involved in numerous car snatchings and robberies. According to the police, Tanvir Abbas had on the directives of another cell chief Ashraf set up the group in April 2009 and a total of Rs7 million had been spent on training and equipment.....Sources within the SIU said, however, that leads were pointing towards groups operating in Iran. Also, a clear link between the Mehdi force and Majlise Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM), a local religious organisation has also been uncovered."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6QTDz5YX2c
2 Jan 2011: Karachi police press conference
http://www.urdu.shiitenews.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=27275:2014-09-17-14-49-57
Shia leaders dispute Karach police's claims.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/102439/maulana-nisar-target-killing-driver-of-killers-car-identified-by-witnesses/
11 Jan 2011: "The alleged killer of Maulana Nisar, who was killed on August 18, 2010, has been identified by two witnesses in court on Tuesday. Syed Sikander Rizvi, an alleged member of banned militant organisation Sipah-e-Muhammad, was presented before the judicial magistrate central, Ahsan A Malik, in an identification parade by the CID police. Witnesses Faisal and Imran identified the culprit.The accused told the court that he was driving the car which was used in the murder. His accomplice, Shafat Hussain, was the one who fired at Maulana Nisar, he added. After the parade, the court sent Rizvi to jail on a judicial remand till January 20. Earlier, the police presented alleged Sipah-e-Muhammad militants, Tanweer Hussain Naqvi alias Kashif, Abrar Hussain Naqvi, Syed Pervez Zaidi, Rafat Raza alias Jehangir, Hussain Abbas alias Faisal, Syed Sikander Rizvi and Syed Ali Mehdi, before different courts. All courts sent the accused to jail on a judicial remand till January 20. Meanwhile, the court also asked for challans issued in these cases."
Tanvir Abbas alias Kashif alias Mehdi along with Abrar Hussain, Pervez Zaidi, Riffat alias Jehangir and Hasnain Abbas were arrested in the first encounter near NED University with a vehicle with fake official numberplates (GS-0022) early Sunday morning. Later, Sikandar alias Sajid, Ali Mehdi alias Bubblo and Kumail were arrested during separate raids. All eight suspects hail from the city and most of them were residents of Orangi town, Buffer zone, Malir and New Karachi. They have been accused of being involved in at least a dozen sectarian target killings, including the murder of three doctors. The group targeted sympathisers and members of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Mohammad....Describing the modus operandi of the Mehdi force, Khattab told The Express Tribune that it was a well-trained extremist unit that had various sources of funding. “The mastermind Tanvir Abbas used to pay Rs15,000 as a salary to his men who would pull the trigger and Rs8,000 to those who conducted surveillance of the targets,” he said, adding that the suspect would also organise weapons and explosives training to the men at facilities in hideouts in the northern areas, including Parachinar and Gilgit. The group was also alleged to be involved in numerous car snatchings and robberies. According to the police, Tanvir Abbas had on the directives of another cell chief Ashraf set up the group in April 2009 and a total of Rs7 million had been spent on training and equipment.....Sources within the SIU said, however, that leads were pointing towards groups operating in Iran. Also, a clear link between the Mehdi force and Majlise Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM), a local religious organisation has also been uncovered."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6QTDz5YX2c
2 Jan 2011: Karachi police press conference
http://www.urdu.shiitenews.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=27275:2014-09-17-14-49-57
Shia leaders dispute Karach police's claims.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/102439/maulana-nisar-target-killing-driver-of-killers-car-identified-by-witnesses/
11 Jan 2011: "The alleged killer of Maulana Nisar, who was killed on August 18, 2010, has been identified by two witnesses in court on Tuesday. Syed Sikander Rizvi, an alleged member of banned militant organisation Sipah-e-Muhammad, was presented before the judicial magistrate central, Ahsan A Malik, in an identification parade by the CID police. Witnesses Faisal and Imran identified the culprit.The accused told the court that he was driving the car which was used in the murder. His accomplice, Shafat Hussain, was the one who fired at Maulana Nisar, he added. After the parade, the court sent Rizvi to jail on a judicial remand till January 20. Earlier, the police presented alleged Sipah-e-Muhammad militants, Tanweer Hussain Naqvi alias Kashif, Abrar Hussain Naqvi, Syed Pervez Zaidi, Rafat Raza alias Jehangir, Hussain Abbas alias Faisal, Syed Sikander Rizvi and Syed Ali Mehdi, before different courts. All courts sent the accused to jail on a judicial remand till January 20. Meanwhile, the court also asked for challans issued in these cases."
14 Apr 2011: "The JIT has also mentioned the case of an alleged
target killer Syed Ali Mehdi alias Salman hailing from
Sipah-e-Muhammad. The interesting fact about Mehdi’s episode is
that he was a professional hockey player and played for KESC. The
KESC did not pay him for six months. In 2009 he met Syed Ibrar
Hussain Rizvi alias Sultan, Nomi and Mushtaq who asked Mehdi to work
for Shia sect and also bought a Honda 125 worth Rs 37000 for him.
He
pointed out to Ibrar Rizvi about one Moavia to Ibrar Rizvi who later
on in May 2010 killed Moavia at a shop. He was given Rs4500 as reward
for this pointing out.
Moreover,
in reaction to Shia Scholar Mirza Yousaf’s son namely Mirza Khadim
Hussain, Ibrar Ahamd Rizvi called Mehdi to come at Baqai Hospital.
There they did the recky of a black car who was owned by Dr Shakoor
(allegedly affiliated with Sipah-e-Sahaba). Upon Mehdi’s pointing,
Rizvi killed Dr Shakoor and Mehdi got Rs5000 as reward from Ibrar
Rizvi.
In
another case Muhammad Imran Puncharwala was also killed by Ibrar
Rizvi upon recky of Mehdi, who got Rs2000 as reward for this work.
“In the month of March 2010, Ibrar Ahmad Rizvi came at Babul Ilem
Imam Bargah, Karachi and told him regarding murder of Mufti Saeed
Jalalpuri (affiliated with Tahrik-e-Khatam-e-Nabuwat Pakistan) at
Abul Asfahani Road, near Paradise Bakery Karachi in a car. Haider and
Samar told him regarding murder of one owner of medical store
situated at Petal Wali Gali, Golimar, Karachi”, says the report.
Mehdi disclosed that the persons killed/injured above were activated/
aggressive against Shia sect that’s why in the interest of Shia
sect they were assassinated/injured. The other reasons of sectarian
killing of such persons were that they had killed the persons
affiliated with Ahl-e-Tashiee community."
7 May 2011: "Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
– two organisations banned by the Pakistani government in 2001 on
charges of fomenting sectarianism and killing in the name of religion
– are back in business: both groups have been organising in the
University of Karachi (KU) with impunity, allegedly with the
patronage of teachers. Wall chalking and graffiti on many walls of
the KU bears testament to the presence of both Sipah-e-Muhammad and
Sipah-e-Sahaba. What’s more, however, is the distribution of
leaflets with hate-inciting material and altercations between the two
groups over mosque and prayer spaces."
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2011/05/26/city/karachi/%E2%80%98200-iranian-trained-sipah-e-muhammad-activists-hunting-down-aswj-workers%E2%80%99/
26 May 2011: "More than 200 activists of Sipah-e-Muhammad, trained from Iran and heavily armed, are hunting down workers of their rival sect, confessed Ali Muntazir, an activist of Sipah-e-Muhammad arrested last week from the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) of Sindh Police. Muntazir confessed to have killed more than 20 activists of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), formerly the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan. His victims included Rehan and Nadeem, both killed in 2010 in the jurisdiction of Airport police station. “Our high ups instructed us to kill ASWJ leaders and activists, and provided us with weapons and a list of leaders,” he told investigators. The terrorist also revealed that Sipah-e-Muhammad activists are imparted training in Iran, and like his other comrades, he made several visits for the purpose."
http://tribune.com.pk/story/181938/possible-business-angle-al-qaeda-hand-ruled-out-in-saudi-diplomats-murder/
4 June 2011: "Investigators looking into the daylight killing of a Saudi consulate official in Defence Phase VI on May 16 have ruled out the possibility of al Qaeda having a hand in the attack. “[Al Qaeda] has the capability and ruthlessness to bomb the entire Saudi consulate building, but that didn’t happen,” said a counter terrorism official while talking to The Express Tribune. He added that had al Qaeda been involved, a ‘spectacular attack’ would have been carried out. The diplomat, Hasan M. al Kahtani, was shot dead by men on two motorcycles near the Saudi consulate...... "Officials who spoke with The Express Tribune say they have found some strong clues that hint in the direction of militants within the Ahle Tasheeh sect. They say that just as there are Tehreek-i-Taliban-linked mostly Sunni militants, there are extremists active in the other sect as well, who are operating in the city. The proscribed Sipah-e-Mohammad group, for example, was formed as a reaction to the attacks on the minority sect’s followers in Pakistan. Although, the Sipah-e-Mohammad is no longer anything like what it was back in the day, these extremists now operate under new names such as the ‘Mehdi force’. They are believed to have formed small cells of three to four members each. Law-enforcement members also say that in the past some youth of a campus-based sectarian organisation were also found to be involved in terrorism. Some allegedly even confessed that they received militant training in a neighbouring country that was not Afghanistan."
http://www.dawn.com/news/674722/mastermind-of-saudi-consulate-attack-killed-three-held
http://tribune.com.pk/story/294776/saudi-consulate-attack-five-terror-suspects-arrested/
21 Nov 2011: KARACHI: "Asif alias Munna, the main suspect in a futile attack on the Saudi Consulate back in May, was killed in an encounter as he tried to evade arrest on Sunday. His three companions are in police custody. Police said the encounter ensued near Rabiya City in Gulistan-e-Jauhar when they raided the area with the help of Asif’s companions, Zaki alias Kamran, Mohsin and Mohammad Ali Kazmi. They were arrested from the Eidgah area the same day. Crime Branch officials said that the suspects were with the banned outfit, Mehdi Force. They confessed to being involved in sectarian violence during interrogation. Their two biggest transgressions, however, were an attack on a mosque at Sakhi Hassan in 2010 and when they threw two hand grenades at the Saudi consulate building on May 11. While no one was hurt at the consulate, five people were injured at the mosque"......"Earlier this year in January, the Karachi police’s Special Investigation Unit arrested eight people who worked with these four suspects and recovered a huge cache of weapons. The eight men arrested initially were said to be hardcore militants of the Mehdi Force. The accused included the group’s mastermind, Tanvir Abbas. They were accused of being involved in at least a dozen sectarian target killings, including the murder of three doctors. The group targeted sympathisers and members of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jesh-e-Mohammad. Their attacks always prompted a strong backlash from the groups they targeted."
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/08/13/city/karachi/ban-what-ban/?printType=article
13 Aug 2012: "It has been learned that activists of Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and Sindhu Desh Liberation Army (SDLA) are carrying out their activities openly in many universities."..... "Sources claimed that SMP have sitting points in front of the cafeteria of Karachi University and have formed pickets on the roof of the cafeteria to provide shelter to their activists while activists of SSP were openly arranging gatherings in different departments. Both organizations have chalked their slogans and their names on the walls of Karachi University and are distributing their literature amongst the students. It is pertinent to note here that the government of Pakistan had imposed a ban on the literature of both these organizations as it was fanning sectarian hatred. Sources further claimed that these SMP activists conducting these activities were not students of Karachi University and visited the university only to run their affairs. About 100 activists of SMP used to sit in front of the cafeteria while 10 to 15 armed activists of SMP were positioned in the surroundings of that cafeteria to provide protection to the other activists. Even though members of SMP have been apprehended in different cases by the Karachi police, they still continue to conduct these activities with impunity. Ina particular case, a member of SMP was arrested by the police in 2010 and heavy weaponry was recovered from his vehicle. Sources claim that this very person is now leading campaigns in Karachi University and has openly admitted to being a shooter for the banned outfit."
http://www.dawn.com/news/674722/mastermind-of-saudi-consulate-attack-killed-three-held
http://tribune.com.pk/story/294776/saudi-consulate-attack-five-terror-suspects-arrested/
21 Nov 2011: KARACHI: "Asif alias Munna, the main suspect in a futile attack on the Saudi Consulate back in May, was killed in an encounter as he tried to evade arrest on Sunday. His three companions are in police custody. Police said the encounter ensued near Rabiya City in Gulistan-e-Jauhar when they raided the area with the help of Asif’s companions, Zaki alias Kamran, Mohsin and Mohammad Ali Kazmi. They were arrested from the Eidgah area the same day. Crime Branch officials said that the suspects were with the banned outfit, Mehdi Force. They confessed to being involved in sectarian violence during interrogation. Their two biggest transgressions, however, were an attack on a mosque at Sakhi Hassan in 2010 and when they threw two hand grenades at the Saudi consulate building on May 11. While no one was hurt at the consulate, five people were injured at the mosque"......"Earlier this year in January, the Karachi police’s Special Investigation Unit arrested eight people who worked with these four suspects and recovered a huge cache of weapons. The eight men arrested initially were said to be hardcore militants of the Mehdi Force. The accused included the group’s mastermind, Tanvir Abbas. They were accused of being involved in at least a dozen sectarian target killings, including the murder of three doctors. The group targeted sympathisers and members of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jesh-e-Mohammad. Their attacks always prompted a strong backlash from the groups they targeted."
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/08/13/city/karachi/ban-what-ban/?printType=article
13 Aug 2012: "It has been learned that activists of Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and Sindhu Desh Liberation Army (SDLA) are carrying out their activities openly in many universities."..... "Sources claimed that SMP have sitting points in front of the cafeteria of Karachi University and have formed pickets on the roof of the cafeteria to provide shelter to their activists while activists of SSP were openly arranging gatherings in different departments. Both organizations have chalked their slogans and their names on the walls of Karachi University and are distributing their literature amongst the students. It is pertinent to note here that the government of Pakistan had imposed a ban on the literature of both these organizations as it was fanning sectarian hatred. Sources further claimed that these SMP activists conducting these activities were not students of Karachi University and visited the university only to run their affairs. About 100 activists of SMP used to sit in front of the cafeteria while 10 to 15 armed activists of SMP were positioned in the surroundings of that cafeteria to provide protection to the other activists. Even though members of SMP have been apprehended in different cases by the Karachi police, they still continue to conduct these activities with impunity. Ina particular case, a member of SMP was arrested by the police in 2010 and heavy weaponry was recovered from his vehicle. Sources claim that this very person is now leading campaigns in Karachi University and has openly admitted to being a shooter for the banned outfit."
https://nation.com.pk/04-Sep-2012/dozen-gangsters-arrested-in-shanti-nagar-op
4 Sep 2012:
Meanwhile, an alleged target killer belonging to the outlawed religious organisation was apprehended during a raid conducted on a tip-off in Nazimabad No 3. According to Nazimabad police officials, the suspect identified as Shakeel Abbas was affiliated with the outlawed Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan and during initial course of interrogation, he confessed to have killing at least ten men on sectarian grounds including outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan’s central leader Maulana Ghaffoor Nadeem and his son Mavia.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/443626/sectarian-hit-men-move-from-killing-individuals-to-targeting-families-police/
4 Sep 2012:
Meanwhile, an alleged target killer belonging to the outlawed religious organisation was apprehended during a raid conducted on a tip-off in Nazimabad No 3. According to Nazimabad police officials, the suspect identified as Shakeel Abbas was affiliated with the outlawed Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan and during initial course of interrogation, he confessed to have killing at least ten men on sectarian grounds including outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan’s central leader Maulana Ghaffoor Nadeem and his son Mavia.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/443626/sectarian-hit-men-move-from-killing-individuals-to-targeting-families-police/
28 Sep 2012: "In the last 30 days, six similar homicides suggest that the Deobandi and Shia militant wings are interlocked in a frightening new spiral. It started on August 18, when suspects from the banned Sipah-e-Mohammad Pakistan killed nine friends affiliated with the Deobandi school of thought in Gulberg and North Karachi within two hours. District West DIG Akram Bharoka believes that the Deobandis were targeted in North Karachi primarily because it was their home territory. The police suspect that the killings were an instant reaction to the bomb blast at the Imamia Student Organisation’s Youm-e-Quds rally which took place earlier that day." ....
"Law enforcers claim that the militants who went to prison for sectarian killings in the 1990s are free now and might have helped train a new set of killers." .... "So far the only suspect the police have been able to arrest was an alleged hitman from the banned Sipah-e-Mohammad Pakistan. They claim he killed seven Deobandis near Disco Morr."
https://tribune.com.pk/story/463921/16-fall-prey-to-violence/
11 Nov 2012:
http://archive.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-4-142898-Three-alleged-target-killers-arrested
http://pakistancriminalrecords.com/2012/11/15/karachi-3-alleged-target-killers-arrested/
27 Nov 2012: "KARACHI: Three target killers arrested by the CID Karachi have confessed to killing 29 persons of Rangers, police, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Aman Committee and MQM Haqiqi. The three arrested terrorists, including Akbar Hussain alias Akbar Nana, Syed Tanweer Ahmad alias Tanu and Syed Ali Raj alias Ali, confessed before the JIT that they killed 13 Haqiqi men, four SSP activists, six policemen including two officers, one Ranger, four Aman Committee members and a hotel owner. All three arrested target killers belonged to a political party. They admitted that they joined the party to take shelter for their sectarian killings. The accused after confessional statement in the Joint Interrogation Team (JTI) have been sent to jail.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-sectarian/insight-spiral-of-karachi-killings-widens-pakistans-sectarian-divide-idUSBRE91N00G20130224
Detectives believe the small Shi‘ite Mehdi Force group, comprised of about 20 active members in Karachi, is behind several of the attacks on Deobandi clerics and their followers.
The underground network is led by a hardened militant codenamed “Shaheed”, or martyr, who recruits eager but unseasoned middle-class volunteers who compensate for their lack of numbers by stalking high-profile targets.
“They don’t have a background in terrorism, but after the Shia killings started they joined the group and they tried to settle the score,” said Superintendent of Police Raja Umar Khattab. “They kill clerics.”
In November [2012], suspected Mehdi Force gunmen opened fire at a tea shop near the Ahsan-ul-Uloom seminary, where Farooqi has a following, killing six students. A scholar from the madrasa was shot dead the next month, another student killed in January. “It was definitely a reaction, Shias have never gone on the offensive on their own,” said Deputy Inspector-General Shahid Hayat. According to the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee, a Karachi residents’ group, some 68 members of Farooqi’s Ahle Sunnat wal Jama‘at and 85 Shi‘ites were killed in the city from early September [2012] to February 19 [2013].
http://www.dunya.com.pk/index.php/pakistan/2013-02-24/76907#.XGDZFVz7S00
24 Feb 2013:
کراچی (اسٹاف رپورٹر) تفصیلات کے مطابق کورنگی کے علاقے بھٹائی کالونی سیکٹر سی نزد انڈس اسپتال کے قریب جامع مسجد سے مغرب کی نماز پڑھ کر نکلنے والے 47سالہ قاری امین ولد نور محمد گھات لگائے تین ملزمان کی فائرنگ سے جاں بحق ہوگئے۔ اس موقع پر مشتعل افراد نے ملزمان کو پکڑنے کی کوشش کی تو موٹرسائیکل سوار تین ملزمان نے فائرنگ کردی۔ علاقے میں خوف وہراس پھیل گیا تاہم مشتعل افراد نے جان پر کھیل کر فرار ہونے والے ایک ملزم ندیم عباس زیدی ولد خادم زیدی کوپکڑلیا۔ اس کے دو ساتھی فرار ہوگئے۔ مشتعل افراد نے ندیم عباس کو تشدد کا نشانہ بنایا۔ پولیس اور رینجرز موقع پر پہنچ گئی اور ندیم عباس کو تحویل میں لیکر اسلحہ برآمد کرلیا۔ اس اطلاع پر اہلسنت والجماعت کے مشتعل کارکنان اور عہدیدار بھی اسپتال پہنچ گئے۔ اہلسنت والجماعت کے ترجمان مولانا اکبر نے بتایا کہ 6ماہ قبل مذکورہ ملزم سمیت 6 ملزمان نے مقتول قاری امین کو اغواء کیا تھا اور تشدد کا نشانہ بناکر اس شرط پر چھوڑا تھا کہ قاری امین اپنی فیملی کے ساتھ مذکورہ مسجد چھوڑ کر چلے جائیں گے۔ نہ جانے کی صورت میں انہیں قتل کرنے کی دھمکی دی گئی تھی۔ قاری امین کو تحٖفظ فراہم کرنے کے لیے پولیس سے استدعا کی گئی تھی مگر پولیس نے معذرت کرلی تھی۔ اس کے بعد چیف جسٹس پاکستان کو تین ماہ قبل درخواست دی گئی تھی اور ملزم ندیم عباس سمیت6ملزمان کے نام درج کرائے گئے تھے جن کی طرف سے قتل کی دھمکیاں دی جارہی تھیں۔ مگر کوئی شنوائی نہیں ہوئی۔ مولانا اکبر نے بتایا کہ مقتول مذکورہ علاقے میں اہلسنت والجماعت کے عہدیدار تھے۔ وہ مذکورہ مسجد میں پیش امام تھے اور بچوں کو دینی تعلیم بھی دیتے تھے۔ اہلسنت والجماعت کے مشتعل کارکنان نے کورنگی کراسنگ پرپولیس کے خلاف احتجاج شروع کردیا اور ٹائر نذر آتش کرکے سڑک بلاک کردی اور ہنگامہ آرائی شروع کردی۔ رینجر ز اور پولیس نے لاٹھی چارچ کر کے مشتعل کارکنان کو منتشر کردیا جس کے بعد پر امن دھرنا رات گئے تک جاری رہا۔ ایس ایچ او ابراہیم حیدری نیک محمد جاکھرانی نے بتایا مقتول کو جس علاقے میں قتل کیا گیاوہ علاقہ زمان ٹاؤن کا ہے ۔ جس مقام پر لوگوں نے ملزم ندیم عباس کو پکڑا وہ ابراہیم حیدری تھانے کی حدود میں شامل ہے۔ ندیم عباس زیدی اورنگی ٹاؤن کا رہائشی ہے اور پولیس کو شبہ ہے کہ اس کا تعلق کالعدم سپاہ محمد سے ہے۔
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Farhat Abbas Zaidi (MQM's sectarian target killer)
http://www.dawn.com/news/1048813
9 Nov 2013: "Karachi: The Anti-Terrorism Court-I remanded an alleged target killer, Farhat Abbas Zaidi, to jail custody till November 18 in a murder case on Friday. The police produced Zaidi before Judge Bashir Ahmed Khoso under tight security. According to a police official, a Gulshan-e-Iqbal police team, led by SSP Syed Peer Muhammad Shah, had conducted a raid in Abbas Town on October 7 and arrested Zaidi after an encounter. The police said Zaidi confessed that he and his associates had murdered Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat spokesperson Maulana Akbar Saeed Farooqi near Safari Park. The official said that he also confessed to killing four clerics —Dilshakur, Muhammad Umer, Anser and Imran —near Siddiq-e-Akber Masjid in Scout Colony, Mobina Town last year. “He also killed Rangers personnel on Abul Hasan Ispahani Road after the Abbas Town explosion,” the official added."
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print/91643-Four-Afghan-intelligence-officials-sent-to-jail
16 Jan 2016: "Farhat Abbas Zaidi. Zaidi, an activist of a political party, pleaded not guilty, and an anti-terrorism court (ATC) issued notices to the prosecution witnesses to come and record their evidence against the accused. Farhat Abbas Zaidi is alleged to have killed Maulana Akbar Saeed Farooqui on August 25, 2012 and on October 25, 2013 he had killed Abdul Shakoor, Umar, Asadullah and Imran in the Mubina Town police limits."
https://twitter.com/khalidkhan787/status/688297474302148608
16 Jan 2016: MQM's sectarian target killer Farhat Abbas Zaidi indicted by Anti-Terror Court#Karachi in case related to murder of ASWJ leaders
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ak36u_kamran-khan-exposed-iranian-trained-sectarian-targeted-killers-belong-to-sipah-e-muhammad_news
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/sindh/26-Jan-2014/cid-arrests-two-sipah-e-muhammad-target-killers
https://nation.com.pk/26-Jan-2014/gun-and-bomb-attack-kills-six-karachi-cops
https://tribune.com.pk/story/463921/16-fall-prey-to-violence/
11 Nov 2012:
Six students of a Deoband seminary were gunned down in a targeted attack by unidentified assailants, who fired a volley of bullets at the victims sitting at a roadside teashop in Block-2, Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
At least four armed men on two motorcycles opened fire at the seminary students with 9mm pistols, Gulshan SHO Rana Haseeb told The Express Tribune. The police officer believed the attack may have been in reaction to the targeted killings of Shias in Karachi.
http://archive.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-4-142898-Three-alleged-target-killers-arrested
http://pakistancriminalrecords.com/2012/11/15/karachi-3-alleged-target-killers-arrested/
15 Nov 2012: "The accused along with his associates killed Mohammed Akber and Rizwan in the Yousuf Plaza area, besides Maulana Shakirullah and Maulana Asif in the Samanabad police remit, said the police officer.
The accused and his associates also killed Atif, an owner of Faiz-i-Shaireen, in the Rizvia police remit, and Qari Hassan in the Samnabad area, according to the SSP.
He said they were interrogating Ali when they received information that members of another group involved in sectarian killings were present in the SITE-A police limits.
Another AEC team was then rushed to the area. On seeing the police, the accused opened fire, which was retaliated by the police.
After an encounter, the police arrested Akber Ali alias Nanah and Syed Tanveer Ahmed, and also recovered two 9mm pistols and as many Kalashnikovs.
During the initial interrogation, the two men said they were workers of a Karachi–based political party and murdered a number of people in sectarian and political killings in the past few weeks.
They also confessed to killing Mohammad Jameel, Naseer Ahmed and Naseeruddin in the Garden police remit, Nouman Baig and Imran Baig in Sachal, Azam in Gulshan, Aneel Baloch in Mobina Town, Shaukat Lance Naik of the Pakistan Rangers Sindh in Mobina Town, estate agent Azhar Haris in Mobina Town, two Mohajir Qaumi Movement–Haqiqi workers, Police Inspector (PI) Zafarullah, two police constables and 15 others in various parts of the city."
http://images.thenews.com.pk/27-11-2012/ethenews/t-19118.htm 27 Nov 2012: "KARACHI: Three target killers arrested by the CID Karachi have confessed to killing 29 persons of Rangers, police, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Aman Committee and MQM Haqiqi. The three arrested terrorists, including Akbar Hussain alias Akbar Nana, Syed Tanweer Ahmad alias Tanu and Syed Ali Raj alias Ali, confessed before the JIT that they killed 13 Haqiqi men, four SSP activists, six policemen including two officers, one Ranger, four Aman Committee members and a hotel owner. All three arrested target killers belonged to a political party. They admitted that they joined the party to take shelter for their sectarian killings. The accused after confessional statement in the Joint Interrogation Team (JTI) have been sent to jail.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-sectarian/insight-spiral-of-karachi-killings-widens-pakistans-sectarian-divide-idUSBRE91N00G20130224
Detectives believe the small Shi‘ite Mehdi Force group, comprised of about 20 active members in Karachi, is behind several of the attacks on Deobandi clerics and their followers.
The underground network is led by a hardened militant codenamed “Shaheed”, or martyr, who recruits eager but unseasoned middle-class volunteers who compensate for their lack of numbers by stalking high-profile targets.
“They don’t have a background in terrorism, but after the Shia killings started they joined the group and they tried to settle the score,” said Superintendent of Police Raja Umar Khattab. “They kill clerics.”
In November [2012], suspected Mehdi Force gunmen opened fire at a tea shop near the Ahsan-ul-Uloom seminary, where Farooqi has a following, killing six students. A scholar from the madrasa was shot dead the next month, another student killed in January. “It was definitely a reaction, Shias have never gone on the offensive on their own,” said Deputy Inspector-General Shahid Hayat. According to the Citizens-Police Liaison Committee, a Karachi residents’ group, some 68 members of Farooqi’s Ahle Sunnat wal Jama‘at and 85 Shi‘ites were killed in the city from early September [2012] to February 19 [2013].
http://www.dunya.com.pk/index.php/pakistan/2013-02-24/76907#.XGDZFVz7S00
24 Feb 2013:
کراچی (اسٹاف رپورٹر) تفصیلات کے مطابق کورنگی کے علاقے بھٹائی کالونی سیکٹر سی نزد انڈس اسپتال کے قریب جامع مسجد سے مغرب کی نماز پڑھ کر نکلنے والے 47سالہ قاری امین ولد نور محمد گھات لگائے تین ملزمان کی فائرنگ سے جاں بحق ہوگئے۔ اس موقع پر مشتعل افراد نے ملزمان کو پکڑنے کی کوشش کی تو موٹرسائیکل سوار تین ملزمان نے فائرنگ کردی۔ علاقے میں خوف وہراس پھیل گیا تاہم مشتعل افراد نے جان پر کھیل کر فرار ہونے والے ایک ملزم ندیم عباس زیدی ولد خادم زیدی کوپکڑلیا۔ اس کے دو ساتھی فرار ہوگئے۔ مشتعل افراد نے ندیم عباس کو تشدد کا نشانہ بنایا۔ پولیس اور رینجرز موقع پر پہنچ گئی اور ندیم عباس کو تحویل میں لیکر اسلحہ برآمد کرلیا۔ اس اطلاع پر اہلسنت والجماعت کے مشتعل کارکنان اور عہدیدار بھی اسپتال پہنچ گئے۔ اہلسنت والجماعت کے ترجمان مولانا اکبر نے بتایا کہ 6ماہ قبل مذکورہ ملزم سمیت 6 ملزمان نے مقتول قاری امین کو اغواء کیا تھا اور تشدد کا نشانہ بناکر اس شرط پر چھوڑا تھا کہ قاری امین اپنی فیملی کے ساتھ مذکورہ مسجد چھوڑ کر چلے جائیں گے۔ نہ جانے کی صورت میں انہیں قتل کرنے کی دھمکی دی گئی تھی۔ قاری امین کو تحٖفظ فراہم کرنے کے لیے پولیس سے استدعا کی گئی تھی مگر پولیس نے معذرت کرلی تھی۔ اس کے بعد چیف جسٹس پاکستان کو تین ماہ قبل درخواست دی گئی تھی اور ملزم ندیم عباس سمیت6ملزمان کے نام درج کرائے گئے تھے جن کی طرف سے قتل کی دھمکیاں دی جارہی تھیں۔ مگر کوئی شنوائی نہیں ہوئی۔ مولانا اکبر نے بتایا کہ مقتول مذکورہ علاقے میں اہلسنت والجماعت کے عہدیدار تھے۔ وہ مذکورہ مسجد میں پیش امام تھے اور بچوں کو دینی تعلیم بھی دیتے تھے۔ اہلسنت والجماعت کے مشتعل کارکنان نے کورنگی کراسنگ پرپولیس کے خلاف احتجاج شروع کردیا اور ٹائر نذر آتش کرکے سڑک بلاک کردی اور ہنگامہ آرائی شروع کردی۔ رینجر ز اور پولیس نے لاٹھی چارچ کر کے مشتعل کارکنان کو منتشر کردیا جس کے بعد پر امن دھرنا رات گئے تک جاری رہا۔ ایس ایچ او ابراہیم حیدری نیک محمد جاکھرانی نے بتایا مقتول کو جس علاقے میں قتل کیا گیاوہ علاقہ زمان ٹاؤن کا ہے ۔ جس مقام پر لوگوں نے ملزم ندیم عباس کو پکڑا وہ ابراہیم حیدری تھانے کی حدود میں شامل ہے۔ ندیم عباس زیدی اورنگی ٹاؤن کا رہائشی ہے اور پولیس کو شبہ ہے کہ اس کا تعلق کالعدم سپاہ محمد سے ہے۔
Farhat Abbas Zaidi (MQM's sectarian target killer)
http://www.dawn.com/news/1048813
11 Oct 2013: "Two eyewitnesses on Thursday rightly picked out a suspect among dummies as the killer in a case pertaining to the murder of an Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat leader. ASWJ spokesman Maulana Akbar Saeed Farooqui was gunned down in Gulshan-i-Iqbal on his way back home after attending a protest demonstration on Aug 28. The police produced the suspect, Farhat Abbas Zaidi, before the court and judicial magistrate (east) Ghulam Murtaza conducted the identification parade."
http://tribune.com.pk/story/629261/criminals-confessions-atc-remands-target-killer-to-jail-custody/9 Nov 2013: "Karachi: The Anti-Terrorism Court-I remanded an alleged target killer, Farhat Abbas Zaidi, to jail custody till November 18 in a murder case on Friday. The police produced Zaidi before Judge Bashir Ahmed Khoso under tight security. According to a police official, a Gulshan-e-Iqbal police team, led by SSP Syed Peer Muhammad Shah, had conducted a raid in Abbas Town on October 7 and arrested Zaidi after an encounter. The police said Zaidi confessed that he and his associates had murdered Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat spokesperson Maulana Akbar Saeed Farooqi near Safari Park. The official said that he also confessed to killing four clerics —Dilshakur, Muhammad Umer, Anser and Imran —near Siddiq-e-Akber Masjid in Scout Colony, Mobina Town last year. “He also killed Rangers personnel on Abul Hasan Ispahani Road after the Abbas Town explosion,” the official added."
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print/91643-Four-Afghan-intelligence-officials-sent-to-jail
16 Jan 2016: "Farhat Abbas Zaidi. Zaidi, an activist of a political party, pleaded not guilty, and an anti-terrorism court (ATC) issued notices to the prosecution witnesses to come and record their evidence against the accused. Farhat Abbas Zaidi is alleged to have killed Maulana Akbar Saeed Farooqui on August 25, 2012 and on October 25, 2013 he had killed Abdul Shakoor, Umar, Asadullah and Imran in the Mubina Town police limits."
https://twitter.com/khalidkhan787/status/688297474302148608
16 Jan 2016: MQM's sectarian target killer Farhat Abbas Zaidi indicted by Anti-Terror Court
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ak36u_kamran-khan-exposed-iranian-trained-sectarian-targeted-killers-belong-to-sipah-e-muhammad_news
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/sindh/26-Jan-2014/cid-arrests-two-sipah-e-muhammad-target-killers
https://nation.com.pk/26-Jan-2014/gun-and-bomb-attack-kills-six-karachi-cops
26 Jan 2014: "The Crime Investigation Department, claiming to have unravelled the network of a banned outfit operating in the city, released the pictures and sketches of 11 members of the group on Saturday at a press conference. The 11 members include ringleader Syed Wasim Ahsan Naqvi aka Shahid aka Kashif, Nisar Hussain aka Rehmat, Abbas aka Gora, Gul aka Abdullah, Sajid, Kashif aka Arif, Imran aka Mota aka Kalo, Adnan aka Manjan, Muhammad Ali Rizvi aka Doctor and two unidentified men. The gang reportedly has 17 members in total. Officials were able to gather the details with information from two of its members – Jauhar Hussain aka Jafer aka Rehman and Irshad Hussain aka Amir aka Hussain. Their arrests were disclosed during the press conference held by in-charge of the CID’s Counter Terrorism and Financial Crime Unit (CTFCU). One motorcycle, a Kalashnikov, three pistols, two cars and a CD with the list of their would-be targets were also found from their possession, claimed the officials. The arrests were made after an encounter when a police team conducted a raid in Abbas Town. CTFCU in-charge Raja Omar Khattab informed the media that the arrested suspects are affiliated with the banned outfit, Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan, and Syed Waseem Ahsan Naqvi aka Shahid is their ring-leader in Karachi. “This group has been involved in around 60 cases of sectarian killings in Karachi alone,” said Khattab. “A neighbouring country is providing funds and militancy training to this group.” The arrested suspects reportedly revealed that their ring leader paid each of them Rs25,000 per month to target people and even provided them with a residential flat and motorcycles. “These members knew each other only by face but they did not know each other even by names,” explained Khattab. Besides individual acts of targeted killings, the arrested persons also revealed to have targeted the central leader of Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, Maulana Aurangzaib Farooqui in Gulshan-e-Iqbal in December 2012 in which the leader was injured while six of his guards, including four policemen, were killed. “Few of their members were also arrested in the past but were later released from the jails,” said the official, adding that the police was looking for the mastermind and more group members."
http://dunya.com.pk/index.php/pakistan/2014-03-05/321499#.XGDW71z7S00
http://dunya.com.pk/index.php/pakistan/2014-03-05/321499#.XGDW71z7S00
http://tribune.com.pk/story/679006/investigations-target-killers-involved-in-300-murder-cases-says-police/
5 Mar 2014: Karachi: "Law enforcement agencies claimed that the two target killers, gunned down in an encounter with the police in Nazimabad on Monday, were ‘hit men’ affiliated with the banned Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan, The Express Tribune has learnt. The two target killers were gunned down by the police, minutes after they had murdered a shopkeeper at Nazimabad’s Old Urdu Bazaar and injured a member of the Dawat-e-Islami, Maulana Zafar Aslam, near Baqai Hospital, in consecutive targeted attacks. Both criminals were killed after an exchange of fire with the New Karachi SHO Chaudhry Afzal who was passing through the area. Their bodies were later shifted to the Edhi morgue, Sohrab Goth, for identification where police, through their informers, identified them as Mohammad Ali alias Samar Abbas, a resident of Hassan Colony in Gulbahar, and Bakir Ali, son of Akhtar Ali, a resident of Jafer Tayar Society in Malir.
5 Mar 2014: Karachi: "Law enforcement agencies claimed that the two target killers, gunned down in an encounter with the police in Nazimabad on Monday, were ‘hit men’ affiliated with the banned Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan, The Express Tribune has learnt. The two target killers were gunned down by the police, minutes after they had murdered a shopkeeper at Nazimabad’s Old Urdu Bazaar and injured a member of the Dawat-e-Islami, Maulana Zafar Aslam, near Baqai Hospital, in consecutive targeted attacks. Both criminals were killed after an exchange of fire with the New Karachi SHO Chaudhry Afzal who was passing through the area. Their bodies were later shifted to the Edhi morgue, Sohrab Goth, for identification where police, through their informers, identified them as Mohammad Ali alias Samar Abbas, a resident of Hassan Colony in Gulbahar, and Bakir Ali, son of Akhtar Ali, a resident of Jafer Tayar Society in Malir.
An FIR on the charges of murder, attempt to murder and police encounter was registered against them at Nazimabad police station. Police officials believe that the two criminals were also involved in various other crimes, especially in the recent cases of targeted killings. Despite the fact that they had been identified, their bodies are still kept at the Edhi morgue as the police would not allow their families to take their bodies for burial.
Nazimabad SHO Ejaz Lodhi said that the deceased were members of the banned sectarian outfit, Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan, and were involved in more than 300 cases of target killings. “Samar Abbas was the ring leader of the target killers’ chain. He alone was involved in more than 300 target killings,” said SHO Lodhi, while speaking to The Express Tribune.
“In the past, Samar Abbas’ team members, Qalbe Abbas and Farhat Abbas, were also arrested. During the course of interrogation, they had also revealed that Samar Abbas was their ring leader and was involved in hundreds of targeted killings.” Farhat and Qalbe had even boasted that no one could apprehend their leader as he was a sharp shooter himself."
http://tribune.com.pk/story/679537/express-media-attack-suspects-killed-in-encounter-police/
http://tribune.com.pk/story/679297/gunned-down-target-killers-were-involved-in-attacks-on-express-media-group-offices-police/
5 March 2014: "DIG Odho claimed that the suspects were allegedly involved in a number of cases, though they have so far confirmed their involvement in only 17 cases of target killings. Of the killings that DIG Odho suspected the men to be involved in, a majority were of policemen and rival religious group members including secretary of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Samiul Haq (JUI-S), Sindh chapter, Mufti Usman Yar Khan, who was shot dead along with his private guard and driver in a targeted attack near Karachi’s Awami Markaz at Shara-e-Faisal in January 17, 2014. “They were also involved in attacking the Express Media Office twice by lobbing bombs and resorting firing,” DIG Odho claimed. “We have proved as the ballistic reports confirmed their involvement.”"
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/499101-five-%E2%80%98sectarian-killers%E2%80%99-remanded-for-two-weeks
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/498892-five-held-for-over-a-dozen-sectarian-killings
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/sindh/26-Apr-2014/police-arrest-five-sectarian-target-killers
http://www.express.pk/story/248781/
https://www.express.pk/story/246478/
http://tribune.com.pk/story/700349/press-conference-police-declare-arrest-of-five-target-killers/
26 Apr 2014: "The police claimed to have nabbed five suspects of a banned sectarian outfit allegedly involved in nearly a dozen cases of sectarian-based targeted killings in the city. The arrested suspects were identified as Furqan alias Baba jee, Faisal Mehmood, Syed Buturab, Syed Rifat Hussain Jafri and Azhar Hussain alias Faraz. Three pistols were also allegedly recovered from their possession." ....
http://tribune.com.pk/story/679537/express-media-attack-suspects-killed-in-encounter-police/
http://tribune.com.pk/story/679297/gunned-down-target-killers-were-involved-in-attacks-on-express-media-group-offices-police/
5 March 2014: "DIG Odho claimed that the suspects were allegedly involved in a number of cases, though they have so far confirmed their involvement in only 17 cases of target killings. Of the killings that DIG Odho suspected the men to be involved in, a majority were of policemen and rival religious group members including secretary of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Samiul Haq (JUI-S), Sindh chapter, Mufti Usman Yar Khan, who was shot dead along with his private guard and driver in a targeted attack near Karachi’s Awami Markaz at Shara-e-Faisal in January 17, 2014. “They were also involved in attacking the Express Media Office twice by lobbing bombs and resorting firing,” DIG Odho claimed. “We have proved as the ballistic reports confirmed their involvement.”"
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/499101-five-%E2%80%98sectarian-killers%E2%80%99-remanded-for-two-weeks
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/498892-five-held-for-over-a-dozen-sectarian-killings
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/sindh/26-Apr-2014/police-arrest-five-sectarian-target-killers
http://www.express.pk/story/248781/
https://www.express.pk/story/246478/
http://tribune.com.pk/story/700349/press-conference-police-declare-arrest-of-five-target-killers/
26 Apr 2014: "The police claimed to have nabbed five suspects of a banned sectarian outfit allegedly involved in nearly a dozen cases of sectarian-based targeted killings in the city. The arrested suspects were identified as Furqan alias Baba jee, Faisal Mehmood, Syed Buturab, Syed Rifat Hussain Jafri and Azhar Hussain alias Faraz. Three pistols were also allegedly recovered from their possession." ....
"Special
Investigation Unit police chief SP Farooq Awan, on the other hand,
said that suspects belonged to the banned sectarian outfit,
Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan, who during initial inquiry revealed to
have killed at least 13 people. “They used to plan the target
killings at their office on Tariq Road,” said Awan."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvHDokBsS-E
http://www.geo.tv/latest/93420-karachi-police-arrest-five-%E2%80%98target-killers%E2%80%99
25 Apr 2014: "Additional IG Shahid Hyat told media that five suspects affiliated with a banned organization Sipah-e-Muhammad were arrested during a raid conducted by the SIU department of the police. He said that the suspects were allegedly involved in the killing of Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi and other Ulema from Jamia Farooqia and Jamia Binoria."
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/anger-rises-in-pakistans-secret-sectarian-war-575781
http://www.fia.gov.pk/en/terrorist.pdf
FIA's list of wanted terrorists. Some terrorists belong to Sipah Muhammad (2014)
http://www.bbc.com/urdu/pakistan/2015/09/150921_karachi_target_killer_arrest_tk
21 Sep 2015:
انسداد دہشت گردی محکمے کے ایس ایس پی عامر فاروقی نے ایک پریس کانفرنس میں ملزم سید ذیشان حیدر زیدی کا تعلق سپاہ محمد منظر امام گروپ سے بتایا اور کہا کہ اس کا سربراہ سلیمان ہے۔ اس گروپ نے شہر میں مخالفین کی ٹارگٹ کلنگ کے لیے تین ٹیمیں بنا رکھی ہیں اور ان میں سے ایک ٹیم کا انچارج ملزم ذیشان خود ہے۔
پولیس کے مطابق ملزم ذیشان، صحافی آفتاب عالم اور نیو کراچی میں دو سگے بھائیوں عمران اور وقار کے قتل میں ملوث ہے، اس کے علاوہ انھوں نے سرجانی ٹاؤن میں بریانی کی دوکان کے مالک دو بھائیوں کے قتل کا بھی منصوبہ بنایا تھا لیکن پولیس موبائل کی موجودگی کی وجہ سے اس پر عمل نہیں ہو سکا۔
نیو کراچی میں فائرنگ کر کے سینیئر صحافی آفتاب عالم کو ہلاک کیا گیا۔ تھوڑی دیر بعد اجمیر نگری تھانے کی حدود میں دو بھائیوں عمران اور وقار کو بھی گولی مار کر ہلاک کیا گیا جو اہل سنت و الجماعت کے ہمدرد تھے۔ پولیس حکام کا کہنا تھا کہ دونوں واقعات میں ایک ہی اسلحہ استعمال کیا گیا۔
ایس ایس پی عامر فاروقی نے پیر کو پریس کانفرنس میں بتایا کہ ملزم نے انکشاف کیا ہے کہ ان کی دوسری ٹارگٹ ٹیم نے ناظم آباد کے علاقے میں رشید قورمہ والے ہوٹل پر فائرنگ کی تھی، جس کے نتیجے میں محمد ریحان اور محمد سعید ہلاک ہوگئے، اسی طرح خواجہ اجمیر نگری میں فائرنگ کر کے ایک شخص کو ہلاک کیا گیا۔
یاد رہے کہ کراچی پولیس کو کالعدم سپاہ محمد کے ایک درجن سے زائد شدت پسند مطلوب ہیں، جو پولیس کے مطابق سپاہ صحابہ کے رہنما اعظم طارق سمیت فرقہ وارانہ دہشت گردی کی وارداتوں میں ملوث ہیں۔ 2011 میں تنظیم کے سرگرم رہنما منتظر امام کو کالعدم سپاہ صحابہ کے رہنما عبدالغفور ندیم اور انجینیئر الیاس کے قتل کے الزام میں گرفتار کیا گیا تھا۔
http://www.dawn.com/news/1222735
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/78335
http://tribune.com.pk/story/999709/hizbut-tehreers-local-chief-arrested-in-karachi/
28 Nov 2015: "The CTD also arrested two alleged target killers, Munir Ahmed Gopang and Usman Ghani alias Gutka. Gopang, a member of the banned sectarian outfit, Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan’s Khairpur chapter, was accused of attacking Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat’s rally in Gambat in 2014 when a participant was killed."
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Murder of journalist Aftab Alam (Sep 2015)
http://www.geo.tv/latest/6196-police-arrest-4-suspects-in-aftab-alam-murder-case
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/8406-police-arrest-4-suspects-in-aftab-alam-murder-case
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1017751/murder-of-journalist-atc-issues-non-bailable-warrants-for-two-terrorists/
http://www.dawn.com/news/1208434
21 Sep 2015: "KARACHI: Speaking at a press conference at the Garden Police Headquarters, Counter-Terrorism Department SSP Amir Farooqi identified the suspect as Zeeshan Haider and said that a 9mm pistol was also seized from him. “He is associated with the Raza Imam group of the banned Sipah-i-Mohammed Pakistan,” said SSP Amir Farooqi of the CTD. “He disclosed that he along with his armed aides killed TV journalist Aftab Alam and two brothers Imran and Waqar the same day in North Karachi earlier this month. His group was also involved in firing on a roadside eatery last month that claimed two lives.” He said the suspect was an active member of a hit men’s group that had targeted several people in recent days."
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print/67870-atc-extends-remand-of-journalist-aftab-alams-murder-suspect
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print/84799-Court-accepts-charge-sheet-against-suspect-in-journalists-murder-case
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvHDokBsS-E
http://www.geo.tv/latest/93420-karachi-police-arrest-five-%E2%80%98target-killers%E2%80%99
25 Apr 2014: "Additional IG Shahid Hyat told media that five suspects affiliated with a banned organization Sipah-e-Muhammad were arrested during a raid conducted by the SIU department of the police. He said that the suspects were allegedly involved in the killing of Maulana Yousuf Ludhianvi and other Ulema from Jamia Farooqia and Jamia Binoria."
http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/anger-rises-in-pakistans-secret-sectarian-war-575781
6 Jun 2014: "Last year Sipah-e-Mohammed, an umbrella organisation
of smaller Shiite groups, carried out around 50 attacks against
Sunnis in Karachi, against 64 attacks by Sunnis on Shiites, according
to the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), an independent
research centre."
http://dunya.com.pk/index.php/city/karachi/2014-06-15/382151#.XGDW8Vz7S00
15 Jun 2014:
http://nation.com.pk/national/27-Sep-2014/two-target-killers-of-chinese-tiger-group-arrested-in-rawalpindi
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/09/27/city/islamabad/two-chinese-tigers-arrested-in-pindi/
https://ur.abna24.com/service/pakistan/archive/2014/12/24/660498/story.html
https://shianews.com.pk/2-108/
https://www.nawaiwaqt.com.pk/24-Dec-2014/349185
24 Dec 2014:
لاہور (اپنے نامہ نگار سے) انسداد دہشت گردی کی خصوصی عدالت کے جج ایوب خان مارتھ نے کالعدم تنظیم کے رہنما شبیر فوجی کو بارودی مواد برآمد ہونے کے 17سال پرانے مقدمہ میں 51 سال قید اور 71ہزار روپے جرمانے کی سزا کا حکم سنا دیا۔ استغاثہ کے مطابق ایک کالعدم تنظیم کے رہنما شبیر فوجی کے قبضہ سے ہینڈ گرنیڈ، کلا شنکوف، پستول اور دیگر بارودی مواد برآمد ہونے پر اس کے خلاف مغلپورہ پولیس نے مقدمہ نمبر 485/97 بجرم 13/13-B اور 7-ATA کے تحت درج کرنے کے بعد تفتیش مکمل کرکے چالان عدالت میں پیش کیا تھا۔ انسداد دہشت گردی کی خصوصی عدالت نے کوٹ لکھپت جیل کے قریب ہائی سکیورٹی زون میں ہینڈ گرنیڈ، بلٹ پروف جیکٹ اور دھماکہ خیز مواد، ناجائز اسلحہ و دیگر سامان برآمد ہونے کا جرم ثابت ہونے پر ملزم شبیر حسین عرف علی فوجی کو انسداد دہشت گردی ایکٹ کی مختلف دفعات کے تحت 51 برس قید اور 71 ہزار روپے جرمانہ کی سزا کا حکم سنایا ہے۔ فاضل جج نے اپنے فیصلہ میں قرار دیا ہے کہ جرمانے کی عدم ادائیگی پر ملزم کو مزید قید کی سزا بھگتنا ہوگی۔ ملزم کے خلاف تھانہ مغلپورہ پولیس نے1997ء میں دھماکہ خیز مواد برآمد کرکے مقدمہ درج کیا تھا۔
http://dunya.com.pk/index.php/city/karachi/2014-06-15/382151#.XGDW8Vz7S00
15 Jun 2014:
http://nation.com.pk/national/27-Sep-2014/two-target-killers-of-chinese-tiger-group-arrested-in-rawalpindi
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/09/27/city/islamabad/two-chinese-tigers-arrested-in-pindi/
27 Sep 2014: The police Saturday arrested two target killers of “Chinese Tigers” group involved in murder of Mufti Amanullah.
Rawalpindi Regional Police Officer (RPO) Akhtar Umer Hayat Lalika said that the police during crackdown arrested two target killers wanted in 16 cases of target killing.
The detainees identified as Adil Abbas and Ghulam Mujtaba had formed a militant group name “Chinese Tigers” and they were also involved in target killing of Mufti Amanullah.
https://ur.abna24.com/service/pakistan/archive/2014/12/24/660498/story.html
https://shianews.com.pk/2-108/
https://www.nawaiwaqt.com.pk/24-Dec-2014/349185
24 Dec 2014:
لاہور (اپنے نامہ نگار سے) انسداد دہشت گردی کی خصوصی عدالت کے جج ایوب خان مارتھ نے کالعدم تنظیم کے رہنما شبیر فوجی کو بارودی مواد برآمد ہونے کے 17سال پرانے مقدمہ میں 51 سال قید اور 71ہزار روپے جرمانے کی سزا کا حکم سنا دیا۔ استغاثہ کے مطابق ایک کالعدم تنظیم کے رہنما شبیر فوجی کے قبضہ سے ہینڈ گرنیڈ، کلا شنکوف، پستول اور دیگر بارودی مواد برآمد ہونے پر اس کے خلاف مغلپورہ پولیس نے مقدمہ نمبر 485/97 بجرم 13/13-B اور 7-ATA کے تحت درج کرنے کے بعد تفتیش مکمل کرکے چالان عدالت میں پیش کیا تھا۔ انسداد دہشت گردی کی خصوصی عدالت نے کوٹ لکھپت جیل کے قریب ہائی سکیورٹی زون میں ہینڈ گرنیڈ، بلٹ پروف جیکٹ اور دھماکہ خیز مواد، ناجائز اسلحہ و دیگر سامان برآمد ہونے کا جرم ثابت ہونے پر ملزم شبیر حسین عرف علی فوجی کو انسداد دہشت گردی ایکٹ کی مختلف دفعات کے تحت 51 برس قید اور 71 ہزار روپے جرمانہ کی سزا کا حکم سنایا ہے۔ فاضل جج نے اپنے فیصلہ میں قرار دیا ہے کہ جرمانے کی عدم ادائیگی پر ملزم کو مزید قید کی سزا بھگتنا ہوگی۔ ملزم کے خلاف تھانہ مغلپورہ پولیس نے1997ء میں دھماکہ خیز مواد برآمد کرکے مقدمہ درج کیا تھا۔
http://www.fia.gov.pk/en/terrorist.pdf
FIA's list of wanted terrorists. Some terrorists belong to Sipah Muhammad (2014)
http://www.bbc.com/urdu/pakistan/2015/09/150921_karachi_target_killer_arrest_tk
21 Sep 2015:
انسداد دہشت گردی محکمے کے ایس ایس پی عامر فاروقی نے ایک پریس کانفرنس میں ملزم سید ذیشان حیدر زیدی کا تعلق سپاہ محمد منظر امام گروپ سے بتایا اور کہا کہ اس کا سربراہ سلیمان ہے۔ اس گروپ نے شہر میں مخالفین کی ٹارگٹ کلنگ کے لیے تین ٹیمیں بنا رکھی ہیں اور ان میں سے ایک ٹیم کا انچارج ملزم ذیشان خود ہے۔
پولیس کے مطابق ملزم ذیشان، صحافی آفتاب عالم اور نیو کراچی میں دو سگے بھائیوں عمران اور وقار کے قتل میں ملوث ہے، اس کے علاوہ انھوں نے سرجانی ٹاؤن میں بریانی کی دوکان کے مالک دو بھائیوں کے قتل کا بھی منصوبہ بنایا تھا لیکن پولیس موبائل کی موجودگی کی وجہ سے اس پر عمل نہیں ہو سکا۔
نیو کراچی میں فائرنگ کر کے سینیئر صحافی آفتاب عالم کو ہلاک کیا گیا۔ تھوڑی دیر بعد اجمیر نگری تھانے کی حدود میں دو بھائیوں عمران اور وقار کو بھی گولی مار کر ہلاک کیا گیا جو اہل سنت و الجماعت کے ہمدرد تھے۔ پولیس حکام کا کہنا تھا کہ دونوں واقعات میں ایک ہی اسلحہ استعمال کیا گیا۔
ایس ایس پی عامر فاروقی نے پیر کو پریس کانفرنس میں بتایا کہ ملزم نے انکشاف کیا ہے کہ ان کی دوسری ٹارگٹ ٹیم نے ناظم آباد کے علاقے میں رشید قورمہ والے ہوٹل پر فائرنگ کی تھی، جس کے نتیجے میں محمد ریحان اور محمد سعید ہلاک ہوگئے، اسی طرح خواجہ اجمیر نگری میں فائرنگ کر کے ایک شخص کو ہلاک کیا گیا۔
یاد رہے کہ کراچی پولیس کو کالعدم سپاہ محمد کے ایک درجن سے زائد شدت پسند مطلوب ہیں، جو پولیس کے مطابق سپاہ صحابہ کے رہنما اعظم طارق سمیت فرقہ وارانہ دہشت گردی کی وارداتوں میں ملوث ہیں۔ 2011 میں تنظیم کے سرگرم رہنما منتظر امام کو کالعدم سپاہ صحابہ کے رہنما عبدالغفور ندیم اور انجینیئر الیاس کے قتل کے الزام میں گرفتار کیا گیا تھا۔
http://www.dawn.com/news/1222735
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/78335
http://tribune.com.pk/story/999709/hizbut-tehreers-local-chief-arrested-in-karachi/
28 Nov 2015: "The CTD also arrested two alleged target killers, Munir Ahmed Gopang and Usman Ghani alias Gutka. Gopang, a member of the banned sectarian outfit, Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan’s Khairpur chapter, was accused of attacking Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat’s rally in Gambat in 2014 when a participant was killed."
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Murder of journalist Aftab Alam (Sep 2015)
http://www.geo.tv/latest/6196-police-arrest-4-suspects-in-aftab-alam-murder-case
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/8406-police-arrest-4-suspects-in-aftab-alam-murder-case
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1017751/murder-of-journalist-atc-issues-non-bailable-warrants-for-two-terrorists/
http://www.dawn.com/news/1208434
21 Sep 2015: "KARACHI: Speaking at a press conference at the Garden Police Headquarters, Counter-Terrorism Department SSP Amir Farooqi identified the suspect as Zeeshan Haider and said that a 9mm pistol was also seized from him. “He is associated with the Raza Imam group of the banned Sipah-i-Mohammed Pakistan,” said SSP Amir Farooqi of the CTD. “He disclosed that he along with his armed aides killed TV journalist Aftab Alam and two brothers Imran and Waqar the same day in North Karachi earlier this month. His group was also involved in firing on a roadside eatery last month that claimed two lives.” He said the suspect was an active member of a hit men’s group that had targeted several people in recent days."
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print/67870-atc-extends-remand-of-journalist-aftab-alams-murder-suspect
http://www.thenews.com.pk/print/84799-Court-accepts-charge-sheet-against-suspect-in-journalists-murder-case
15 Dec 2015: "An anti-terrorism court accepted on Monday a charge-sheet against a man accused of killing journalist Aftab Alam. It was stated in the charge-sheet that Zeeshan Haider Zaidi was one of the men who had killed journalist Aftab Alam in North Karachi on September 9.....At a press conference, SSP Amir Farooqui had said identified them as Zeeshan Haider Zaidi, Suleman, Shah Jee and Adeel and said they were affiliated with a banned outfit, the Sipah-e-Mohammad's Manzar Imam group."
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1017751/murder-of-journalist-atc-issues-non-bailable-warrants-for-two-terrorists/
28 Dec 2015:
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1017751/murder-of-journalist-atc-issues-non-bailable-warrants-for-two-terrorists/
28 Dec 2015:
An anti-terrorism court issued on Monday non-bailable warrants of arrest for two suspects said to be affiliated with a banned sectarian outfit, allegedly involved in the murder of a journalist.
The ATC-II issued warrants for Adeel Raza Zaidi and Salman Raza as police submitted the charge sheet of the case. Another suspect, Zeeshan Haider Zaidi, is in custody in connection with the killing.
Zeeshan’s arrest was revealed by the counter terrorism department in September, two weeks after journalist Aftab Alam was gunned down outside his house in North Karachi. The prosecution maintains that the suspects belonged to the defunct Shia militant group Sipah-i-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP).
https://www.dawn.com/news/1258959
18 May 2016:
Syed Zeeshan Haider with his two absconding accomplices has been booked for allegedly killing TV journalist Aftab Alam outside his home in II-C Area of North Karachi in September last year.
The police had shown Adil Raza and Salman Raza as absconders in the charge-sheet.
....The Counter Terrorism Department of police claimed to have arrested the suspect a couple of weeks after the incident and said that he was associated with a banned militants outfit, Sipah-i-Muhammad Pakistan.
https://www.dawn.com/news/1258959
18 May 2016:
Syed Zeeshan Haider with his two absconding accomplices has been booked for allegedly killing TV journalist Aftab Alam outside his home in II-C Area of North Karachi in September last year.
The police had shown Adil Raza and Salman Raza as absconders in the charge-sheet.
....The Counter Terrorism Department of police claimed to have arrested the suspect a couple of weeks after the incident and said that he was associated with a banned militants outfit, Sipah-i-Muhammad Pakistan.
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http://tribune.com.pk/story/1018840/saudi-consulate-attacker-jailed-for-14-years/
http://www.dawn.com/news/1229642
Dec 30, 2015: "KARACHI: A court on Wednesday sentenced a militant to 14 years in prison for hurling grenades at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Karachi, four years ago, a prosecutor said.
Zaki Qazi of the little known Lashkar-i-Mehdi group and his accomplice Tabish Hussain lobbed two grenades at the mission as they rode past on a motorcycle in May 2011, causing no casualties.
Police carried out a raid in November that year, killing Hussain during fighting and arresting Qazi — who claimed to be from the Shia sect."
http://www.dawn.com/news/1239144
Feb 13, 2016: "The spokesman said that in the third raid in the Sanda area, three members of banned Sipah-i-Muhammad Pakistan - Shehzada Ghulam Hussain, Shahid and Sajid Abbas - were arrested. He said police also found hate material at Imran cassette and CD house near Bibi Pak Daman shrine and registered a case under section 11-F (2), 9- ATA. He said that the suspects were planning to attack the law enforcement agencies. All the arrested suspects were shifted to undisclosed locations for further interrogation."
https://www.geo.tv/latest/108650
29 Jun 2016:
http://www.dawn.com/news/1268307/six-foreign-funded-hitmen-planning-sectarian-killings-held
http://www.express.pk/story/546071/
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/131907-Six-terrorists-of-banned-outfit-caught-with-hit-list
30 June 2016: Sindh’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed arresting six members of a banned sectarian outfit in the city on Thursday who were said to be involved in killings and were planning to target 15 people, including a well-known Mufti, before Eidul Fitr.
CTD Additional Inspector General Sanaullah Abbasi said the investigation wing of his department made the arrests after it had been assigned the task of apprehending elements involved in creating a law and order situation in Karachi.
Inspector Chaudhry Safdar led a team during raids in Central and West districts and arrested the six men after encounters.
Those arrested were identified as Mohammad Ali alias Amir alias Sattar alias Siddiq, Syed Sheraz Ali Rizvi alais Hussain, Syed Hamid Abbas Naqvi alias Rajab Ali, Syed Israr Ali alias Nisar Ahmed alias Rehman alias Chacha, Pervez Hussain alias Ramzan and Mohammad Mumtaz Bhutto alias Nasir.
Five hand grenades, a 9mm pistol and five 30-bore pistols were found on the suspects, Abbasi said.
He said the terrorists belonged to a banned outfit and were tasked with targeting leaders, workers and supporters of a religious party.
All the suspects were said to be trained to closely follow their targets, had grown long beards to be able to mix with them and used to attend religious congregations and visit Siddiq-e-Akbar Masjid in North Karachi for Friday prayers.
During their stay in the religious circle, the suspects allegedly identified several leaders, workers and sympathisers of the religious party as their targets. Moreover, on the orders of their leaders, the terrorists used to attend religious programmes in mosques and processions. They also used to chase diehard workers of the rival party and after noticing their movement they sent the details to their organisation.
A joint interrogation team formed to keep an eye on the suspects marked them as “black” in a report.
Abbasi said that in order to attend religious programmes of the rival party, the suspects also hid their identities by obtaining fake CNICs.
Moreover, the six men had prepared a list of about 200 people as targets and they were funded by foreign actors for waging a proxy war in Pakistan, particularly in Karachi.
Abbasi said that in the year 2012 the terrorists along with their other associates attacked the convoy of Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqi in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, in which four policemen and two citizens were killed. In the attack, Maulana Farooqi, ASI Ashfaq Cheema and Abdul Rehman were injured. In the year 2015, the suspects along with their associates targeted DR Fayyaz Khan in the SITE-B area.
http://www.express.pk/story/558188/
15 July 2016:
کراچی: مذہبی رہنما مولانا اورنگزیب فاروقی سمیت کراچی بھر میں 54 افراد کی ریکی کرنے والے کالعدم مذہبی جماعت سے تعلق رکھنے والے خطرناک ملزم سیداسرار عرف نثار عرف رحمان عرف چاچا کی جے آئی ٹی رپورٹ ایکسپریس کو موصول ہو گئی ہے۔
سی ٹی ڈی ذرائع کے مطابق سال 2004 تک کراچی کی ایک نجی کمپنی میں10ہزارماہوار تنخواہ پرمزدوری کرنے والا اسرار لالچ میں آکرٹارگٹ کلنگ ٹیم کاحصہ بن گیا اور اس وقت تک ریکی کر کے 51 افراد کو موت کے گھاٹ اتروا چکا ہے، ملزم نے اس وقت تک 51 افراد کو قتل کروانے کا اعتراف کر لیا ہے۔
دوران تفتیش ملزم نے سی ٹی ڈی کو بتایا کہ اس کو کالعدم مذہبی جماعت کے سرگرم ٹارگٹ کلر عامرعرف بھائی نے اپنے ساتھ رکھا اوراس کو ایک ریکی ٹیم میں شامل کرکے مخالف مذہبی جماعت کے رہنماؤں اور سرگرم کارکنوں پرنظر رکھنے کا کہا گیا،ملزم کا مزید کہنا تھا کہ اس کو ایک خصوصی ٹاسک دیا گیاجس میں مجھے مولانا اورنگزیب فاروقی کے گھر کے قریب ایک گھر کرائے پردلوایا گیا اوران کی ریکی کرنے کے لیے اسی علاقے میں ایک پیاز کاٹھیلا لگاکردیا گیا۔
http://www.dawn.com/news/1282322
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1176670/terror-bid-foiled-police-arrest-five-sectarian-militants/
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/148036-Five-hitmen-involved-in-sectarian-killings-arrested
6 Sep 2016:
https://www.dawnnews.tv/news/1046397
https://jang.com.pk/news/211310
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1221712/rangers-arrest-two-hitmen-involved-sectarian-political-killings/
5 Nov 2016:
14 Jan 2017: Confessions of Mehroz Mehdi
https://jang.com.pk/news/251943
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/179908
18 Jan 2017:
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Omer Shahid Hamid, chief of the Intelligence Wing, told a media briefing that Syed Zulfiqar Ali Naqvi alias Mohammad was caught in a raid on a place near Nauras Chowrangi in the SITE police remit.
.....
During the initial interrogation, Naqvi was found to be associated with the banned Sipah-e-Mohammad. He asaid he also worked for the militant wing of a London- based political party.
The suspect admitted to murdering three activists of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan near Bhayani Heights in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. He along with his associates allegedly murdered Farooq Ahmed near Al-Haj Akhtar Restaurant in Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
In 2011 he along with his accomplices targeted Yousuf Balochm, local president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), near Aga Juice in the Gulshan police limits.
https://jang.com.pk/news/260058-todays-print-city-news
1 Feb 2017:
کراچی(اسٹاف رپورٹر)انسداد دہشت گردی کی خصوصی عدالتوں کے منتظم جج نے مفتی عثمان سمیت 3افراد کے قتل کے مقدمہ میں گرفتار ملزم سید مہروز مہدی عرف مہدی بادشاہ کے خلاف چالان منظور کرتے ہوئے متعلقہ عدالت کو ارسال کر دیا ہے چالان کے مطابق گرفتار ملزم سید میروز مہدی نے دیگر ملزمان ابرار بنگش رضوان بنگش حیدر بنگش اور ثاقب بنگش کے ساتھ مل کر شارع فیصل پر کار پر فائرنگ کی تھی جس کے نتیجے میں مفتی عثمان،محمد رفیق اور محمد علی جاں بحق ہو گئے تھے جبکہ ایک شخص زخمی ہوا تھا چالان کے مطابق دیگر ملزمان مفرور ہیں جن کی گرفتاریاں عمل میں لانی ہیں۔
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/189152
28 Feb 2017:
A spokesman for the paramilitary force said Mehboob Ali of the Sipah-e-Muhammad and Mohammad Usman of the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar were arrested during raids in Sohrab Goth and SITE areas.
He said the former was involved in shooting at a Rangers mobile in Sohrab Goth area in 2013 and also nominated in the killing of Pashtuns during the year 2012.
Regarding the latter, he said the man was involved in the killings of police officials and carrying out attacks on Muharram processions.
http://www.dunya.com.pk/index.php/pakistan/2017-03-08/985395#.XGDRFVz7S00
8 Mar 2017:
http://www.jasarat.com/2017/04/05/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%85-%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%DB%81-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%DA%A9%DB%92-%D8%AF%DB%81%D8%B4%D8%AA-%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%AF-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%AF-%D9%B9%D8%A7/
5 Apr 2017:
http://www.dawn.com/news/1229642
Dec 30, 2015: "KARACHI: A court on Wednesday sentenced a militant to 14 years in prison for hurling grenades at the Saudi Arabian consulate in Karachi, four years ago, a prosecutor said.
Zaki Qazi of the little known Lashkar-i-Mehdi group and his accomplice Tabish Hussain lobbed two grenades at the mission as they rode past on a motorcycle in May 2011, causing no casualties.
Police carried out a raid in November that year, killing Hussain during fighting and arresting Qazi — who claimed to be from the Shia sect."
http://www.dawn.com/news/1239144
Feb 13, 2016: "The spokesman said that in the third raid in the Sanda area, three members of banned Sipah-i-Muhammad Pakistan - Shehzada Ghulam Hussain, Shahid and Sajid Abbas - were arrested. He said police also found hate material at Imran cassette and CD house near Bibi Pak Daman shrine and registered a case under section 11-F (2), 9- ATA. He said that the suspects were planning to attack the law enforcement agencies. All the arrested suspects were shifted to undisclosed locations for further interrogation."
https://www.geo.tv/latest/108650
29 Jun 2016:
The Sindh police was also searching for Zulqarnain Haider Naqvi who is founder of SMP and involved in many cases of sectarian killings and terrorism in Karachi and Punjab. Police sources said he shifted to Holland while government of Sindh also announced head money as well.
Hassan Raza Kashmiri alias Nana also wanted by the Sindh police, is among top leaders of SMP. But police sources said Hassan Raza Kashmiri fled away to Ethiopia on Passport No: CM-1792879 through an Emirates Airline flight in 2009. Provincial security forces, in a letter, requested Ministry of Interior for strict action against him.
http://www.express.pk/story/546071/
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/131907-Six-terrorists-of-banned-outfit-caught-with-hit-list
30 June 2016: Sindh’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed arresting six members of a banned sectarian outfit in the city on Thursday who were said to be involved in killings and were planning to target 15 people, including a well-known Mufti, before Eidul Fitr.
CTD Additional Inspector General Sanaullah Abbasi said the investigation wing of his department made the arrests after it had been assigned the task of apprehending elements involved in creating a law and order situation in Karachi.
Inspector Chaudhry Safdar led a team during raids in Central and West districts and arrested the six men after encounters.
Those arrested were identified as Mohammad Ali alias Amir alias Sattar alias Siddiq, Syed Sheraz Ali Rizvi alais Hussain, Syed Hamid Abbas Naqvi alias Rajab Ali, Syed Israr Ali alias Nisar Ahmed alias Rehman alias Chacha, Pervez Hussain alias Ramzan and Mohammad Mumtaz Bhutto alias Nasir.
Five hand grenades, a 9mm pistol and five 30-bore pistols were found on the suspects, Abbasi said.
He said the terrorists belonged to a banned outfit and were tasked with targeting leaders, workers and supporters of a religious party.
All the suspects were said to be trained to closely follow their targets, had grown long beards to be able to mix with them and used to attend religious congregations and visit Siddiq-e-Akbar Masjid in North Karachi for Friday prayers.
During their stay in the religious circle, the suspects allegedly identified several leaders, workers and sympathisers of the religious party as their targets. Moreover, on the orders of their leaders, the terrorists used to attend religious programmes in mosques and processions. They also used to chase diehard workers of the rival party and after noticing their movement they sent the details to their organisation.
A joint interrogation team formed to keep an eye on the suspects marked them as “black” in a report.
Abbasi said that in order to attend religious programmes of the rival party, the suspects also hid their identities by obtaining fake CNICs.
Moreover, the six men had prepared a list of about 200 people as targets and they were funded by foreign actors for waging a proxy war in Pakistan, particularly in Karachi.
Abbasi said that in the year 2012 the terrorists along with their other associates attacked the convoy of Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqi in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, in which four policemen and two citizens were killed. In the attack, Maulana Farooqi, ASI Ashfaq Cheema and Abdul Rehman were injured. In the year 2015, the suspects along with their associates targeted DR Fayyaz Khan in the SITE-B area.
http://www.express.pk/story/558188/
15 July 2016:
کراچی: مذہبی رہنما مولانا اورنگزیب فاروقی سمیت کراچی بھر میں 54 افراد کی ریکی کرنے والے کالعدم مذہبی جماعت سے تعلق رکھنے والے خطرناک ملزم سیداسرار عرف نثار عرف رحمان عرف چاچا کی جے آئی ٹی رپورٹ ایکسپریس کو موصول ہو گئی ہے۔
سی ٹی ڈی ذرائع کے مطابق سال 2004 تک کراچی کی ایک نجی کمپنی میں10ہزارماہوار تنخواہ پرمزدوری کرنے والا اسرار لالچ میں آکرٹارگٹ کلنگ ٹیم کاحصہ بن گیا اور اس وقت تک ریکی کر کے 51 افراد کو موت کے گھاٹ اتروا چکا ہے، ملزم نے اس وقت تک 51 افراد کو قتل کروانے کا اعتراف کر لیا ہے۔
دوران تفتیش ملزم نے سی ٹی ڈی کو بتایا کہ اس کو کالعدم مذہبی جماعت کے سرگرم ٹارگٹ کلر عامرعرف بھائی نے اپنے ساتھ رکھا اوراس کو ایک ریکی ٹیم میں شامل کرکے مخالف مذہبی جماعت کے رہنماؤں اور سرگرم کارکنوں پرنظر رکھنے کا کہا گیا،ملزم کا مزید کہنا تھا کہ اس کو ایک خصوصی ٹاسک دیا گیاجس میں مجھے مولانا اورنگزیب فاروقی کے گھر کے قریب ایک گھر کرائے پردلوایا گیا اوران کی ریکی کرنے کے لیے اسی علاقے میں ایک پیاز کاٹھیلا لگاکردیا گیا۔
http://www.dawn.com/news/1282322
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1176670/terror-bid-foiled-police-arrest-five-sectarian-militants/
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/148036-Five-hitmen-involved-in-sectarian-killings-arrested
6 Sep 2016:
Suspects admit to murdering several doctors and religious scholars
Karachi
The anti-terrorism police have claimed busting a group of hitmen and capturing five suspects who had been carrying out sectarian killings in the city for the past several years.
The arrests were made during raids conducted in a District East neighbourhood by personnel of Sindh’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), said DIG Arif Haneef of the anti-terror force.
The target killers were identified as Syed Amir Hussain Rizvi alias Babar alias Irfan, Zainul Abideen alias Sunny, Faizyaab Ali alias Isphan alias Sheraz, Syed Mohsin Hussain alias Talha alias Pagal and Syed Mohammad Abbas alias Ashir alias Hamza.
The police found lethal weapons, including 9mm pistols, on the suspects, who were taken to the CTD headquarters for questioning.
DIG Haneef said the seized weapons and bullets were sent to the Sindh Police’s Forensic Division, which confirmed that the same guns had been used in several sectarian killings in Karachi.
The police took the action soon after it transpired during investigations in cases of sectarian killings and other acts of terrorism that the terrorists, who usually operated in District East and Malir areas, had expanded their network.
DIG Haneef said the arrests were made in the murder case of a known religious scholar, who was targeted in Gulistan-e-Jauhar a few weeks ago.
He said the terrorists used to target doctors, religious scholars and known personalities belonging to a rival sect after monitoring their victims’ movements.
He said the five men had been planning to kill some religious scholars before Eidul Azha to create sectarian tensions in the city, but their plan was timely foiled by the CTD officials.
The accused admitted to murdering Hafiz Mohammad Sajid in Shah Faisal Colony, Habibur Rehman in Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Dr Fazalur Rehman in Landhi and Mufti Ghulam Akbar and Mufti Kamran Hussain in Gulshan-e-Iqbal this year.
DIG Haneef said the terrorists had been active in the city since 2014, and last year they targeted Iftekhar Ahmed in Jamshed Quarters, Naseem Khan and Asif in the airport police remit, besides attacking Maulana Yasir and injuring Ahmed in Gulistan-e-Jauhar.
In 2013-14, the suspects had gunned down Qari Ghulam Sarwar in Samanabad, Essa in Boat Basin, Mohammad Imran in New Karachi and Mohammad Tanveer and Mohammad Tauseef in Khokharapar.
The DIG said interrogators grilling the suspects to extract information about those who were working with them as facilitators.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1197381/sectarian-terrorism-jit-interrogate-hitman/
https://arynews.tv/en/arrested-target-killer-from-neighboring-country-formerly-seen-using-police-uniform/
https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pakistan/strange-case-of-an-iranian-cg-translator-who-may-also-be-a-hit-man-and-a-policeman/
10 Oct 2016:
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1197381/sectarian-terrorism-jit-interrogate-hitman/
https://arynews.tv/en/arrested-target-killer-from-neighboring-country-formerly-seen-using-police-uniform/
https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pakistan/strange-case-of-an-iranian-cg-translator-who-may-also-be-a-hit-man-and-a-policeman/
10 Oct 2016:
KARACHI – In a shocking revelation, the police on Tuesday claimed that a man who was recently arrested on the suspicion of target killing and sectarian violence, had worked as a translator for the neighboring country’s consul general.
The man, identified as Mehdi Moosvi, was arrested by police from Shadman Town area of Karachi.
According to officials, the suspected ‘contract killer’, allegedly involved in sectarian killings and terrorism, has made shocking revelations during the investigation.
“He disclosed that he has worked as translator of a neighboring country’s consul general, and has also accompanied his country’s diplomat during meetings with former Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah and other high officials,” a police official said.
https://www.dawnnews.tv/news/1046397
https://jang.com.pk/news/211310
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1221712/rangers-arrest-two-hitmen-involved-sectarian-political-killings/
5 Nov 2016:
KARACHI:
Pakistan Rangers Sindh claimed on Saturday to have arrested two suspected target killers involved in sectarian and politically motivated killings.
Syed Mehroz Mehdi Naqvi alias Mehdi Badshah and Ishtiaq alias Mama were arrested by the paramilitary forces in separate raids in Karachi.
Rangers spokespersons claimed Mehroz has confessed his involvement in 22 murders including Mufti Usman Yar Khan, Muhammad Ali and Muhammad Rafiq who were killed on Sharae Faisal in February 2014. The suspected hitman is also involved in killing of Mufti Dilfaraz Mavia and Abu Bakar in the Site area in February 2013.
The LEA on the tip-off also recovered weapons from the arrested killer’s possession, a statement issued by the Rangers said.
http://ummat.net/2017/01/14/news.php?p=news-02.gif14 Jan 2017: Confessions of Mehroz Mehdi
https://jang.com.pk/news/251943
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/179908
18 Jan 2017:
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Omer Shahid Hamid, chief of the Intelligence Wing, told a media briefing that Syed Zulfiqar Ali Naqvi alias Mohammad was caught in a raid on a place near Nauras Chowrangi in the SITE police remit.
.....
During the initial interrogation, Naqvi was found to be associated with the banned Sipah-e-Mohammad. He asaid he also worked for the militant wing of a London- based political party.
The suspect admitted to murdering three activists of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan near Bhayani Heights in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. He along with his associates allegedly murdered Farooq Ahmed near Al-Haj Akhtar Restaurant in Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
In 2011 he along with his accomplices targeted Yousuf Balochm, local president of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), near Aga Juice in the Gulshan police limits.
https://jang.com.pk/news/260058-todays-print-city-news
1 Feb 2017:
کراچی(اسٹاف رپورٹر)انسداد دہشت گردی کی خصوصی عدالتوں کے منتظم جج نے مفتی عثمان سمیت 3افراد کے قتل کے مقدمہ میں گرفتار ملزم سید مہروز مہدی عرف مہدی بادشاہ کے خلاف چالان منظور کرتے ہوئے متعلقہ عدالت کو ارسال کر دیا ہے چالان کے مطابق گرفتار ملزم سید میروز مہدی نے دیگر ملزمان ابرار بنگش رضوان بنگش حیدر بنگش اور ثاقب بنگش کے ساتھ مل کر شارع فیصل پر کار پر فائرنگ کی تھی جس کے نتیجے میں مفتی عثمان،محمد رفیق اور محمد علی جاں بحق ہو گئے تھے جبکہ ایک شخص زخمی ہوا تھا چالان کے مطابق دیگر ملزمان مفرور ہیں جن کی گرفتاریاں عمل میں لانی ہیں۔
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/189152
28 Feb 2017:
A spokesman for the paramilitary force said Mehboob Ali of the Sipah-e-Muhammad and Mohammad Usman of the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar were arrested during raids in Sohrab Goth and SITE areas.
He said the former was involved in shooting at a Rangers mobile in Sohrab Goth area in 2013 and also nominated in the killing of Pashtuns during the year 2012.
Regarding the latter, he said the man was involved in the killings of police officials and carrying out attacks on Muharram processions.
http://www.dunya.com.pk/index.php/pakistan/2017-03-08/985395#.XGDRFVz7S00
8 Mar 2017:
متحدہ، مذہبی جماعت کیلئے کام کرتا تھا ، قیمتی املاک نذرآتش، رینجرز موبائل پر فائرنگ کا انکشاف محبوب علی عرف روکی کا نام کاؤنٹر ٹیررازم کی انتہائی مطلوب ملزمان کی فہرست میں بھی شاملکراچی (اسٹاف رپورٹر) ویسٹ زون سے گرفتار کالعدم سپاہ محمد کے ٹارگٹ کلر محبوب علی عرف روکی نے مفتی عبدالمجید دین پوری کے قتل، جلاؤ گھیرائو،رینجرز موبائل پر فائرنگ سمیت جرائم کی متعدد وارداتوں کا اعتراف کر لیا۔ تفصیلات کے مطابق محبوب عرف روکی نے دوران تفتیش بتایا کہ وہ بیک وقت متحدہ اور مذہبی جماعت کے لئے کام کرتا تھا، ملزم نے انکشاف کیا کہ 2012 میں بلوچ کالونی پل کے نیچے مفتی عبدالمجید دین پوری کے قتل میں اسکے قریبی ساتھی ملوث تھے ، ملزمان میں ثقلین، شاہد، حیدر، شاہد پنجڑہ اورحسنین شامل تھے ، ملزم نے بتایا کہ علامہ عباس کمیلی کے بیٹے کے قتل کے بعد سولجر بازارمیں دکانیں بند کرانے کاحکم ملا، ایک تنظیمی پروگرام کے بعد نشترپارک میں فائرنگ کی،مقصدعوام میں خوف وہراس پھیلاناتھا۔ ملزم نے تفتیش کاروں کو مزید بتایا کہ اپنے ساتھی حسنین کے ساتھ پروفیسر سبط جعفرکے جنازے میں گئے جہاں مقامی لوگوں سے لڑائی ہوئی جبکہ لڑائی میں بڑے چھوٹے ہتھیار استعمال ہوئے ،کافی لوگ بھی زخمی ہوئے ۔ ٹارگٹ کلرمحبوب عرف روکی نے انکشاف کیا کہ 2014 میں ایک جنازے کو وادی حسین قبرستان لے جاتے ہوئے راستے میں فائرنگ کی،کچھ لوگ جاں بحق اورکچھ زخمی ہوئے ،انچولی سے وادی حسین قبرستان تک راستے میں آنیوالی قیمتی املاک کوآگ لگائی،واپسی میں رینجرزکی موبائل پربھی فائرنگ کی جس کے نتیجے میں ڈی ایس آراسحاق زخمی ہوا۔ 2013 میں عباس ٹاؤن دھماکے میں جاں بحق افرادکی تدفین کے بعدتنظیم کی جانب سے جلاؤگھیراؤکاحکم ملا تھا،ملزم کا نام کاؤنٹر ٹیررازم ڈپارٹمنٹ کی انتہائی مطلوب ملزمان کی فہرست میں بھی شامل ہے ۔
http://www.jasarat.com/2017/04/05/%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%85-%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%DB%81-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%85%D8%AF-%DA%A9%DB%92-%D8%AF%DB%81%D8%B4%D8%AA-%DA%AF%D8%B1%D8%AF-%DA%A9%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D8%AF-%D9%B9%D8%A7/
5 Apr 2017:
کراچی ( رپورٹ /محمد علی فاروق ) کالعدم سپاہ محمد کے دہشت گرد حسن رضا عرف کشمیری نے اہلسنت والجماعت کے رہنماؤں سمیت کراچی میں متعدد افراد کی ٹارگٹ کلنگ کا اعتراف کرلیا ہے ۔ملزم ایران میں روپوش خطرناک دہشت گرد جواد ایرانی کا قریبی ساتھی ہے، نام فورتھ شیڈول میں
شامل تھا ۔ ذرائع کے مطابق گرفتار کالعدم سپاہ محمد کے دہشت گرد حسن رضا عرف کشمیری کی تفتیشی رپورٹ منظر عام پر آگئی ، رپورٹ کے مطابق ملزم کاتعلق مسلک اہل تشیع کی کالعدم جماعت سپاہ محمد سے ہے ،ملزم لاہور اور راولپنڈی میں روپوش تھا، اس نے اپنا نام حسن رضاعرف کشمیری عرف ننھا ولد غلام میر کشمیری بتایا ہے۔ ملزم نے بتایا کہ اس نے سید آصف حسنین زیدی عرف قریشی ولد سیدواجد حسین زیدی، سید محمد قاسم زیدی عرف قاسم سرجانی اور صفدر عباس ولد غلام حسین کے ساتھ مل کر دوسرے مسلک کے افراد کی ٹارگٹ کلنگ کی۔ تمام افراد کالعدم سپاہ محمد کے امیر ذوالقرنین حیدر نقوی کے احکاما ت پر کارروائیاں کر تے تھے۔ ، ملزم نے بتایا کہ وہ کالعدم سپاہ محمد کے خطرناک ایرانی دہشت گرد جواد ایرانی کا دست راست ہے۔ ملزم ایران میں مفرور ہے، اس کی پوری فیملی ایران میں ہی رہائش پذیر ہے۔ ملزم حسن رضا نے2000 میں جہانگیر آباد میں نجی کلینک پر فائرنگ کر کے ایک ڈاکٹر کو قتل، اور 2000 میں ہی اپنے ساتھیوں کے ساتھ مل کر سائٹ میں سپاہ صحابہ کی ریلیپر فائرنگ کرکے 2افراد کو قتل کیاجبکہ2001میں نیو کراچی سپاہ صحابہ کے ایک اور کارکن کو قتل کیا۔ملزم نے کہا کہ وہ واردات کے بعد رضویہ میں موجود خفیہ ٹھکانے میں چھپ جاتے تھے۔
شامل تھا ۔ ذرائع کے مطابق گرفتار کالعدم سپاہ محمد کے دہشت گرد حسن رضا عرف کشمیری کی تفتیشی رپورٹ منظر عام پر آگئی ، رپورٹ کے مطابق ملزم کاتعلق مسلک اہل تشیع کی کالعدم جماعت سپاہ محمد سے ہے ،ملزم لاہور اور راولپنڈی میں روپوش تھا، اس نے اپنا نام حسن رضاعرف کشمیری عرف ننھا ولد غلام میر کشمیری بتایا ہے۔ ملزم نے بتایا کہ اس نے سید آصف حسنین زیدی عرف قریشی ولد سیدواجد حسین زیدی، سید محمد قاسم زیدی عرف قاسم سرجانی اور صفدر عباس ولد غلام حسین کے ساتھ مل کر دوسرے مسلک کے افراد کی ٹارگٹ کلنگ کی۔ تمام افراد کالعدم سپاہ محمد کے امیر ذوالقرنین حیدر نقوی کے احکاما ت پر کارروائیاں کر تے تھے۔ ، ملزم نے بتایا کہ وہ کالعدم سپاہ محمد کے خطرناک ایرانی دہشت گرد جواد ایرانی کا دست راست ہے۔ ملزم ایران میں مفرور ہے، اس کی پوری فیملی ایران میں ہی رہائش پذیر ہے۔ ملزم حسن رضا نے2000 میں جہانگیر آباد میں نجی کلینک پر فائرنگ کر کے ایک ڈاکٹر کو قتل، اور 2000 میں ہی اپنے ساتھیوں کے ساتھ مل کر سائٹ میں سپاہ صحابہ کی ریلیپر فائرنگ کرکے 2افراد کو قتل کیاجبکہ2001میں نیو کراچی سپاہ صحابہ کے ایک اور کارکن کو قتل کیا۔ملزم نے کہا کہ وہ واردات کے بعد رضویہ میں موجود خفیہ ٹھکانے میں چھپ جاتے تھے۔
https://nation.com.pk/04-Aug-2017/ctd-releases-8th-red-book-on-terrorists
4 Aug 2017:
The wanted Shia terrorists mentioned in the Red Book with head money include Raza Imam alias Manzar of Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) and Pasban-e-Islam (PeI), Rs1m, Maulana Syed Zulqarnain Haider Naqvi of SMP/PeI, Rs1m, Syed Muhib Ali Rizvi alias Yawar Abbas of Tehreek-e-Jafria Pakistan (TJP), Rs1m, Syed Mohsin Mehdi Rizvi alias Guddu of TJP, Rs1m, Ali Mustehsan of SMP/ Mehdi Force, Rs0.5m and Syed Asif Hussain Zaidi alias Qureshi, SMP/PeI, Rs0.5m.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/230204
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1507556/rangers-detain-seven-suspects-across-karachi/
16 Sep 2017:
Separately, an alleged member of a banned sectarian outfit was arrested by the paramilitary force during a raid conducted in Nazimabad locality. The suspect was later identified as Jafar Hussain alias Nai. The Rangers spokesperson said he was affiliated with Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan and involved in extortion and dealing of arms and ammunition.
https://jang.com.pk/news/211310
https://fp.brecorder.com/2017/10/20171004223341/
4 Oct 2017:
Paramilitary Rangers (Sindh) on Tuesday claimed to have arrested accused associated with banned Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) from Mochko area of metropolis. A Rangers spokesman in a brief statement said the under arrest accused Syed Raihan Abbas Zaidi aka Budha was involved in target killings and other crime incidents. He was later handed over to police for further legal actions, the statement concluded.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/255772
14 Dec 2017:
In an intelligence-based raid in Rizvia Society, Syed Atif Abbas Naqvi, who belongs to the banned Sipah-e-Mohammad Pakistan, was taken into custody. He was said to be wanted over target killings, extortion and other heinous crimes.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/256160
15 Dec 2017:
A spokesman for the paramilitary force said a suspect identified as Abdul Ghafoor was arrested in a raid conducted in Madina Colony. The suspect was said to be an operative of the banned outfit, Sipah-e-Mohammad Pakistan, who was wanted for involvement in multiple criminal cases.
Ghafoor’s arrest came a day after the Rangers had apprehended a Sipah-e-Mohammad Pakistan operative from the city’s Rizvia Society area. The suspect, identified as Syed Atif Abbas Naqvi, was arrested in an intelligence-based raid and was said to be wanted for target killings, extortion and other heinous crimes.
https://jang.com.pk/news/486766
1 May 2018:
ایڈیشنل آئی جی، سی ٹی ڈی ڈاکٹر ثناء اللہ عباسی نے "جنگ" کو بتایا کہ ڈی آئی جی، سی ٹی ڈی ثاقب اسماعیل میمن کی نگرانی میں ان کی ایک ٹیم نے گزشتہ ہفتے ایک کارروائی کے دوران تین ملزمان سیّد یوسف رضا شاہ، سید معصوم علی نقوی اور سید اکبر علی صغیر کو صدر سے گرفتار کیا تھا جو بظاہر عام نوعیت کے ملزمان تھے اور انہوں نے خود کو کالعدم تنظیم سپاہ محمد کے کارکن ظاہر کیا تاہم ان کے بارے میں جب خفیہ ادارے کی رپورٹس کی روشنی میں مخصوص طرز کی الگ الگ تفتیش کی گئی تو سنگین انکشافات سامنے آئے۔
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ملزم کے مطابق پروفیسر سلمان کے قتل کے بعد حاجی رضا نے اسے دو دریا کلفٹن بلوایا اور مزید کئی ٹارگٹ دئیے تاہم کچھ عرصے بعد ہی اسے بلوچستان کے مختلف شہروں کی ذمے داری دے دی گئی اور کراچی کے ٹارگٹ اکبر، حسن اور دیگر ملزمان کرتے رہے، پولیس حکام کے مطابق گرفتار دیگر دو ملزمان معصوم نقوی اور اکبر صغیر نے بھی تفتیش کے دوران سنگین نوعیت کے انکشافات کئے ہیں جن کی تصدیق کی جارہی ہے۔
https://www.urdupoint.com/pakistan/news/karachi/national-news/live-news-1527886.html
https://dunya.com.pk/index.php/pakistan/2018-05-13/1251119
13 May 2018:
انسداد دہشت گردی کی خصوصی عدالت نے 3 افرد کو قتل سے متعلق مقدمے میں جرم ثابت ہونے پر مہروز مہدی کو سزائے موت سنائی ہے
4 Aug 2017:
The wanted Shia terrorists mentioned in the Red Book with head money include Raza Imam alias Manzar of Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) and Pasban-e-Islam (PeI), Rs1m, Maulana Syed Zulqarnain Haider Naqvi of SMP/PeI, Rs1m, Syed Muhib Ali Rizvi alias Yawar Abbas of Tehreek-e-Jafria Pakistan (TJP), Rs1m, Syed Mohsin Mehdi Rizvi alias Guddu of TJP, Rs1m, Ali Mustehsan of SMP/ Mehdi Force, Rs0.5m and Syed Asif Hussain Zaidi alias Qureshi, SMP/PeI, Rs0.5m.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/230204
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1507556/rangers-detain-seven-suspects-across-karachi/
16 Sep 2017:
Separately, an alleged member of a banned sectarian outfit was arrested by the paramilitary force during a raid conducted in Nazimabad locality. The suspect was later identified as Jafar Hussain alias Nai. The Rangers spokesperson said he was affiliated with Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan and involved in extortion and dealing of arms and ammunition.
https://jang.com.pk/news/211310
https://fp.brecorder.com/2017/10/20171004223341/
4 Oct 2017:
Paramilitary Rangers (Sindh) on Tuesday claimed to have arrested accused associated with banned Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) from Mochko area of metropolis. A Rangers spokesman in a brief statement said the under arrest accused Syed Raihan Abbas Zaidi aka Budha was involved in target killings and other crime incidents. He was later handed over to police for further legal actions, the statement concluded.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/255772
14 Dec 2017:
In an intelligence-based raid in Rizvia Society, Syed Atif Abbas Naqvi, who belongs to the banned Sipah-e-Mohammad Pakistan, was taken into custody. He was said to be wanted over target killings, extortion and other heinous crimes.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/256160
15 Dec 2017:
A spokesman for the paramilitary force said a suspect identified as Abdul Ghafoor was arrested in a raid conducted in Madina Colony. The suspect was said to be an operative of the banned outfit, Sipah-e-Mohammad Pakistan, who was wanted for involvement in multiple criminal cases.
Ghafoor’s arrest came a day after the Rangers had apprehended a Sipah-e-Mohammad Pakistan operative from the city’s Rizvia Society area. The suspect, identified as Syed Atif Abbas Naqvi, was arrested in an intelligence-based raid and was said to be wanted for target killings, extortion and other heinous crimes.
https://jang.com.pk/news/486766
1 May 2018:
ایڈیشنل آئی جی، سی ٹی ڈی ڈاکٹر ثناء اللہ عباسی نے "جنگ" کو بتایا کہ ڈی آئی جی، سی ٹی ڈی ثاقب اسماعیل میمن کی نگرانی میں ان کی ایک ٹیم نے گزشتہ ہفتے ایک کارروائی کے دوران تین ملزمان سیّد یوسف رضا شاہ، سید معصوم علی نقوی اور سید اکبر علی صغیر کو صدر سے گرفتار کیا تھا جو بظاہر عام نوعیت کے ملزمان تھے اور انہوں نے خود کو کالعدم تنظیم سپاہ محمد کے کارکن ظاہر کیا تاہم ان کے بارے میں جب خفیہ ادارے کی رپورٹس کی روشنی میں مخصوص طرز کی الگ الگ تفتیش کی گئی تو سنگین انکشافات سامنے آئے۔
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ملزم کے مطابق پروفیسر سلمان کے قتل کے بعد حاجی رضا نے اسے دو دریا کلفٹن بلوایا اور مزید کئی ٹارگٹ دئیے تاہم کچھ عرصے بعد ہی اسے بلوچستان کے مختلف شہروں کی ذمے داری دے دی گئی اور کراچی کے ٹارگٹ اکبر، حسن اور دیگر ملزمان کرتے رہے، پولیس حکام کے مطابق گرفتار دیگر دو ملزمان معصوم نقوی اور اکبر صغیر نے بھی تفتیش کے دوران سنگین نوعیت کے انکشافات کئے ہیں جن کی تصدیق کی جارہی ہے۔
https://www.urdupoint.com/pakistan/news/karachi/national-news/live-news-1527886.html
https://dunya.com.pk/index.php/pakistan/2018-05-13/1251119
13 May 2018:
انسداد دہشت گردی کی خصوصی عدالت نے 3 افرد کو قتل سے متعلق مقدمے میں جرم ثابت ہونے پر مہروز مہدی کو سزائے موت سنائی ہے
کراچی (اسٹاف رپورٹر) انسداد دہشت گردی کی خصوصی عدالت نے 3 افرد کو قتل سے متعلق مقدمے میں جرم ثابت ہونے پر مہروز مہدی کو سزائے موت سنائی ہے ۔ مجرم کو 2 لاکھ روپے جرمانہ بھی ادا کرنا ہوگا۔ ہفتے کو سماعت کے موقع پر مہروز مہدی کو پیش کیا گیا۔ استغاثہ کے مطابق مہروز مہدی کو 2014 میں بہادر آباد سے گرفتار کیا گیا تھا۔ تفتیش کے دوران مہروز نے اعتراف کیا تھا کہ اس نے فرقہ واریت کی بنیاد پر محمد علی، محمد رفیق اور عثمان کو قتل کیا۔
https://ummat.net/today-newspaper/2018/11/29/36354/
https://www.jasarat.com/2018/11/29/181129-02-3/
29 Nov 2018:
انسداد دہشتگردی کی خصوصی عدالت نے دھماکا خیز مواد اور غیر قانونی اسلحہ کے مقدمات میں مفتی عثمان یار خان کے قتل میں سزائے موت پانے والے مجرم مہروز مہدی عرف بادشاہ کو مجموعی طور پر 19 سال قید کی سزا سنادی۔ کراچی سینٹرل جیل میں انسداد دہشت گردی کمپلیس میں خصوصی عدالت نے دھماکا خیز مواد اور غیر قانونی اسلحہ کے مقدمات کا فیصلہ سنادیا۔ عدالت نے جرم ثابت ہونے پر مجرم مہروز مہدی عرف مہدی بادشاہ بارودی مواد رکھنے کے جرم میں 14 اور غیر قانونی اسلحہ رکھنے کے الزام میں پانچ سال قید با مشقت کی سزا سنادی۔ مجرم پر 25 ہزار روپے جرمانہ بھی عائد کیا گیا اور عدم ادائیگی کی صورت میں مزید ایک ماہ قید کی سزا سنائی ہے۔مجرم قتل اور اقدام قتل کی 22 سے زائد وارداتوں میں ملوث تھا اور مجسٹریٹ کے روبرو مجرم مہروز مہدی عرف مہدی بادشاہ اقبال جرم کرچکا ہے اوراسے سزائے موت کاحکم سنایاجاچکاہے۔
https://dunya.com.pk/index.php/pakistan/2019-04-07/1415591
https://www.dawn.com/news/1476298
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/458397
https://twitter.com/SAMRIReports/status/1117926850263646209
7 Apr 2019:
Karachi police arrests 6 militants including a policeman belonging to #Shia outfit Sipah-e-Muhammad who were allegedly involved in the killing of 50 #Deobandi extremists from 2003 to 2019.
کراچی:ٹارگٹ کلرزاورمنشیات فروشوں سمیت20ملزمان گرفتار
شاہد عرف موت کی مشین اورپڑوسی ملک سے ٹریننگ لے کر آئے دہشت گرد بھی پکڑے گئے ملزمان سے سی ٹی ڈی کی ٹیم اورمولانااورنگزیب فاروقی حملوں کے حوالے سے پوچھ گچھ ،ذرائعکراچی(اسٹاف رپورٹر) ترجمان رینجرز کے مطابق رینجرز نے زمان ٹاؤن کے علاقے سے ٹارگٹ کلر محمد شاہد عرف موت کی مشین کو گرفتار کرلیا۔ میمن گوٹھ کے علاقے سے یاسر خان عرف کاکا ،شیراز قوی عرف ببلی، سہراب گوٹھ، بلدیہ، سعید آباد ، مدینہ کالونی اور بغدادی کے علاقے سے 8ملزمان کو گرفتار کیاگیا، گرفتار ملزمان ڈکیتی اور منشیات فروشی سمیت دیگر وارداتوں میں ملوث ہیں ۔قانون نافذ کرنے والے ادارے نے خفیہ اطلاع پرکارروائی کرتے ہوئے مذہبی بنیادوں پر ٹارگٹ کلنگ کی وارداتوں میں ملوث دہشت گرد گروپ کے کمانڈر حیدر عرف بچہ عرف چھوٹا ،مہتاب عرف نقوی عرف مچھڑ، حیدر عباس پولیس والا ، کامران عرف پٹھان کو پکڑلیا۔ذرائع کا کہنا ہے کہ ملزمان مقدس مقامات کی زیارت کی آڑ میں تربیت لینے بھی جاتے رہے ہیں، ملزمان کو پڑوسی ملک میں رہائش پذیر دہشت گرد ہدایات دیا کرتا تھا، حراست میں لیے جانے والوں سے سی ٹی ڈی کی ٹیم اورمولانا اورنگزیب فاروقی پر حملے کے حوالے سے بھی پوچھ گچھ کی جارہی ہے ۔کھارادرپولیس نے اسٹریٹ کرمنل ،بغدادی پولیس نے ملزم شاہد عرف فرنچ ،قائدآباداورملیر کینٹ پولیس نے 2ملزمان دھر لئے ،قائد آباد پولیس نے موٹر سائیکل لفٹر گروہ کے دو کارندوں کو گرفتار کرکے چوری شدہ موٹر سائیکلیں برآمد کرلیں ۔پولیس کے مطابق گرفتارملزمان سے اسلحہ اوردیگر مسروقہ سامان اورموٹرسائیکل بھی برآمد کرلی۔
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Saleem Haider Zaidi (aka Saleem Bhai, Rehman and Rajab)
https://twitter.com/SAMRIReports/status/1227232975978467329
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2154160/ctd-arrests-sectarian-militant/
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/612331
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2154160/ctd-arrests-sectarian-militant/
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/612331
10 Feb 2020: According to CTD in-charge Sarwar Awan, the arrested suspect is affiliated with the banned sectarian outfit Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan. Hand grenades and a fund book were found in his possession, he said.
During a preliminary interrogation, he said, the suspect had admitted his involvement in various cases of terrorism, including the killings of Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, Mufti Jamil and a foreigner in Karachi.
The suspect had been identified as Saleem Haider Zaidi (aka Saleem Bhai, Rehman and Rajab), he said.
10 Feb 2020:
سی ٹی ڈی حکام کا دعویٰ ہے کہ مبینہ دہشتگرد کا ساتھی اور مفتی نظام الدین شامزئی کے قتل میں ملوث ملزم حماد رضا کو 2007 میں گرفتار کیا گیا جس نے اس کا نام لیا تھا، گرفتار مبینہ دہشتگرد کا نام ریڈ بک میں بھی شامل ہے۔
اس سے قبل بھی ستمبر 2015 میں پولیس نے فیڈرل بی ایریا سے سیاسی جماعت سے تعلق رکھنے والے مبینہ ملزم وصی حیدر کو گرفتار کر کے دعویٰ کیا تھا کہ وہ مفتی نظام الدین شامزئی سمیت دیگر علمائے کرام اور انسپکٹر ناصر الحسن سمیت ٹارگٹ کلنگ کی دیگر وارداتوں میں ملوث تھا جبکہ اس سے قبل بھی کراچی پولیس مفتی نظام الدین شامزئی کے قتل میں ملوث ایک مبینہ ملزم نفیس کی گرفتاری کا
دعویٰ کرچکی ہے
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13 Nov 2020:
کراچی میں سی ٹی ڈی اور حساس ادارے نے سائٹ کے علاقے میں رات گئے کارروائی کرکے کالعدم سپاہ محمد کے 2 دہشت گردوں کو مقابلے کے بعد گرفتار کرلیا تاہم دو فرار ہونے میں کامیاب ہوگئے۔
سی ٹی ڈی کے مطابق ملزمان سید محمد علی رضا نقوی اور آغا حسن سے دو 9 ایم ایم پسٹل اور 30 بور برآمد کرلیے جبکہ کرار حسین اور اوسط علی رضوی فرار ہوگئے۔
سلیپر سیل کا سرغنہ سید اوسط علی رضوی ہے جو کالعدم سپاہ محمد پاکستان کا ایک منظم سلیپر سیل چلا رہا ہے جو ہدف کی ریکی کروا کر ٹارگٹ کلنگ کرواتا تھا۔
ان دہشت گردوں نے 2014میں دو بھائیوں محمد تنویر اور محمد کو ملیر کھوکرا پار بیکری میں، 2013میں عیسیٰ بلوچ کو کلفٹن میں، 2013میں شاہد آٹوز کے مالک شاہد کو جہاز والی چورنگی پر اور 2011 میں ڈاکٹر محمود کو شمسی اسپتال کے باہر ٹارگٹ کرکے قتل کیا۔
8 Dec 2020:
سی ٹی ڈی نے ایک کارروائی کے دوران کالعدم تنظیم سپاہ محمد کے دو دہشت گردوں کو گرفتار کرکے غیر قانونی ہتھیار برآمد کرلیے، سی ٹی ڈی نے دعویٰ کیا ہے کہ ملزمان جید علما اور سپاہ صحابہ کے درجنوں کارکنوں کے قتل میں ملوث ہیں۔
سی ٹی ڈی پولیس کو کالعدم سپاہ محمد کے دو دہشت گرد کی کورنگی کے علاقے باغ کورنگی کے قریب موجود کی اطلاع ملی تھی۔ پولیس نے چھاپہ مارکر دونوں دہشت گردوں کرار حسین اور کامران حیدر کو گرفتار کرکے غیر قانونی ہتھیار برآمد کرلیے۔
سی ٹی ڈی کے مطابق دنوں دہشت گردوں نے دوران تفتیش انکشاف کیا کہ انھوں نے اپنے دیگر ساتھیوں کے ہمراہ جامعہ بنوریہ ٹاؤن کے شیخ الحدیث مولانا یوسف لدھیانوی، مفتی نظام الدین شامزئی، شیر شاہ میں مفتی محمود، 2001ء میں کشمیر روڈ پر سپاہ صحابہ کے 8 کارکنوں ، 2014ء میں ملیر کھوکھرا پار کے علاقے میں تنویر اور توصیف سمیت درجنوں افراد کو قتل کیا۔
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