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India-Pakistan
JUI leader gunned down in Chaman
2012-02-09
[Pak Daily Times] Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...Assembly of Islamic Clergy, or JUI, is a Pak Deobandi (Hanafi) political party. There are two main branches, one led by Maulana Fazlur Rahman, and one led by Maulana Samiul Haq. Fazl is active in Pak politix and Sami spends more time running his madrassah. Both branches sponsor branches of the Taliban, though with plausible deniability...
-Ideological (JUI-I) central leader Maulana Abdul Ghani was bumped off in Nayabad area of Chaman on Wednesday. According to Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
Levies, Ghani was on his way home when unidentified gunnies riding a cycle of violence opened fire on him. An injured Ghani was admitted to the District Headquarters Hospital. He was later referred to a Quetta hospital where he succumbed to the injuries. A large number of party workers gathered and protested outside the hospital on receiving the news of Ghani's killing. The motive behind the killing had not been ascertained until the filing of this report, as no one had grabbed credit. Balochistan Levies started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the attackers and launched an investigation. Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck and Manuel's rivalry was entering a new and more dangerous phase...
the JUI's Maulana Muhammad Hanif condemned the killing of Ghani and announced a shutter-down strike in Chaman today (Thursday). Ghani was assassinated as at least four people, including a child, were maimed in a hand grenade attack on Zarghoon Road area near the Saryab Bridge of the picturesque provincial capital on Wednesday. According to police, unidentified persons riding a bike hurled the grenade, injuring four passers-by and damaging three vehicles.
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