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| Relative of Pakistani religious scholar’s house raided |
| 2004-01-05 |
| The law enforcement agencies have raided the house of the son-in-law of a noted religious scholar, Dr Israr Ahmed, in Model Town here on suspicion of links with the militant organizations. Dr Israr’s son-in-law, Dr Khalid Zaigham, told Dawn on Saturday night that personnel of police and elite force had raided his house on Tuesday last when he was out of the city. His family, he said, got harassed by the police raid. The police, however, had left a message for him to contact on a cell phone of a ’police officer’ on his return. But when he contacted, the police officer was not available, he added. He said the law enforcement agencies had taken one of their family friends Dr Inamullah into custody from Attock on suspicion of links with Al Qaeda. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |
| #3 I doubt Israr Ahmed would have anything to do with the hit, he is a very high profile figure and lives well on the millions of dollars he rakes in from his followers. But he might have allowed members of his family to get close to the Jihadi outfits, and I can easily see them providing safe houses to members of al Qaeda |
| Posted by: Paul Moloney 2004-1-5 1:25:31 AM |
| #2 So this is a probable Taliban link to the hit on Musharraf as well, then? |
| Posted by: Dan Darling 2004-1-5 1:10:59 AM |
| #1 Israr Ahmed leads the Tanzeem-e-Islami, a pretty important Islamist movement. He used to be part of the Jamaat-e-Islami, but the very idea of participating in the democratic process was offensive to him, so he formed his group which stays away from politics and awaits the Mahdi. He used to recognise Mullah Omar as the Caliph, but he has kept a low profile recently. |
| Posted by: Paul Moloney 2004-1-5 1:04:42 AM |