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| Jamaatud Dawa leader Maulana Salfi gunned down | |
| 2004-09-13 | |
Maulana Muhammad Ibrahim Salfi, an Ahle Hadith cleric and the prayer leader of a mosque, was gunned down by unidentified assailants at the doorstep of his house in Township early on Sunday. He was the elder brother of Jamaatud Dawa leader Maulana Habibullah. Maulana Salfi, 55, was shot in his neck and head when he returned to his house in front of Jamia Masjid Alquds at 13-B-I Township after offering Fajr prayers. Aftab Ahmad Cheema, senior superintendent of police operations told Daily Times that the police was not sure that it was a sectarian killing. However, police sources said it was a target killing and evidence showed that it was a sectarian killing. Two assassination attempts were made against Maulana Salfi earlier.
More Sources said the area where Maulana Salfi lived was declared a high-tension one a few months ago. They said that there were several clashes between the people of two different sects for making speeches against each other's sects at the mosques in the area and police had to intervene and seal the two mosques. Maulana Sulfi's funeral prayers were offered at Government High School No-I in Township on after Maghrib prayers. Jamaatud Dawa ameer Hafiz Saeed led the funeral prayers. "We do not believe it was a sectarian murder," [Jamaatud Dawa Information Secretary] Yahya Mujahid told AFP. Mujahid blamed India for Salfi's killing. "This is terrorism. Since we are working in Kashmir, it is India which has done this," Mujahid told AP. Maulana Salfi was involved in preaching Islam and had "no political role" in the party, his spokesman said. Formerly Jamaatud Dawa was Lashkar-e-Taiba which was banned by President Pervez Musharraf in a crackdown against extremist groups in 2002. Jamaat-e-Islami leaders condemned the Maulana Salfi's murder. In a statement, Qazi Hussain Ahmad, Liaqat Baloch, Farid Ahmad Piracha and Mian Maqsood Ahmed expressed their sorrow over the murder. | |
| Posted by:Paul Moloney |
| #7 #4 Well the good thing is Another Wahabi Mulla Down. Posted by: Fawad 2004-09-13 2:03:41 PM My comments start here "I want to ask mr fawad who the hell you think you are.Your name shows that you are a muslim. but i dont know what type of a muslim (a man run his life on the rules of islam) are you? Are you an american bull shit? Please reply me:Why you commented this?" |
| Posted by: asim ishaq 2004-10-07 2:03:52 PM |
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| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-13 9:36:06 PM |
| #5 Another treat at Rantburg -- I had to look up "autophagia" in the dictionary. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-13 9:27:38 PM |
| #4 Well the good thing is Another Wahabi Mulla Down. |
| Posted by: Fawad 2004-09-13 2:03:41 PM |
| #3 Autophagia, Islamic style. I like it, bwahahaha. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2004-09-13 11:24:58 AM |
| #2 I'm going to be ululating for an hour or two... |
| Posted by: Fred 2004-09-13 8:38:44 AM |
| #1 Was this a bad thing? |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-09-13 7:42:05 AM |