[DAWN] Another case was registered against the naib khateeb of Lal Masjid...literally the
Red Mosque, located in Islamabad and frequented by all sorts of high govt officials. The proprietors, Ghazi Abdul Rasheed and Maulana Abdul Aziz Ghazi, unleashed their Islamic storm troopers on the city, shutting down whorehouses and beating people up who weren't devout enough. The Musharraf govt put an end to the nonsense by besieging the place. Abdul Aziz Ghazi was nabbed while he was trying to escape dressed up like a girl. BBC reported that the corpse count at 173, but other claims, usually hysterical, say there were up to 1000 titzup. Among their number was Abdul Rashid Ghazi. Everyone then said tut-tut and what a nice guy he had been...
under the amplifier act on Saturday.
A naib Khateeb is an assistant prayer leader. If the prayer leader forgets the words he steps in.
Besides, cases were also registered against nine khateebs of different worship places for violating the ban on the use of loudspeakers.
It may be mentioned that a similar case was registered against the Lal Masjid naib khateeb, Maulana Amir Siddiqui, on October 24 but the police never placed in durance vile
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
him.
When contacted, a police officer on the condition of anonymity said the authorities concerned had been informed about the two cases registered against the holy man and directives sought for his arrest.
The police action on the FIR against the Lal Masjid khateeb will depend on the directives, he added.
Last year, the capital police registered 178 cases over the violation of the ban and booked 216 khateebs between October and December. On the direction of the government, the police arrested 96 persons during the last about three weeks. Besides, 10 khateebs obtained pre-arrest bail while the others went into hiding.
Another police officer said the cases were registered against those khateebs who delivered sermons before Friday prayers.