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| Two ASWJ workers killed |
| 2014-07-18 |
| [DAWN] RAWALPINDI: Two activists of Ahle Sunnat wal Jamaat (ASWJ) were killed at Chakri Road on Thursday night, police said. Local ASWJ leader Mufti Tanveer Alam told Dawn that Qari Saifullah and Aslam Shakir were going to Saddar on a cycle of violence after attending a conference at Mohra Sharif when they were rubbed out by two cycle of violence riders near the Dhamial airbase. Saifullah, 36, was the treasurer of the ASWJ Rawalpindi chapter while the 22-year-old Shakir worked as a khateeb and was affiliated with the party. A large number of ASWJ workers blocked Murree Road in protest against the incident and demanded the government arrest the killers. They said 13 activists of the party had been killed in Rawalpindi during the last nine months but none of the culprits had been enjugged Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please! so far. "Today's attack on ASWJ workers was another in a series of assassinations of our workers," Mufti Tanveer added. Regional Police Officer Akhtar Omer Hayat Laleka told Dawn that a police team had been constituted to trace the killers. He said the police had already been working on the previous incidents of murders. He expressed the hope that the cases would be traced soon. |
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