Unidentified people have distributed a fatwa issued by a local cleric in Sara-e-Naurang town of Lakki Marwat, declaring jihad against the government and those who “support non-Muslims against Muslims”. Mufti Khalid Shah issued the fatwa written in Urdu on a single page and pasted on the walls of houses and mosques in Sara-e-Naurang town. Unidentified people later distributed the fatwa’s pamphlets in various parts of the town late on Monday night, residents told Daily Times.
In his fatwa, Shah has urged militant organisations to wage “jihad” against the government, army, police, rangers, government employees, pro-government and western journalists, maulvis, judges, leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League, thinkers and poets “for supporting non-Muslims against Muslims in an Islamic country”. Shah’s fatwa also criticises the media for calling jihadis terrorists. |