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| India-Pakistan |
| Radicalised guards |
| 2014-10-30 |
| [DAWN] A MONTH ago, Mohammed Yousuf, a prison guard at Rawalpindi's Adiyala Jail, shot and injured the elderly Mohammad Asghar, a blasphemy convict with a history of mental illness. The internal inquiry into the shooting has brought to light findings that are deeply worrying. It seems that Mr Yousuf spent a little over a fortnight guarding Mumtaz Qadri, the self-confessed killer of Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer. Within this brief span, Qadri succeeded in indoctrinating the guard with his hard boy views on Islam. Indeed, his powers of persuasion appear to have been such that two other prison guards were similarly radicalised and told to track down other blasphemy convicts nabbed |
| Posted by:Fred |