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India-Pakistan

JI announces no-trust motion against PPP's Karachi Mayor Murtaza Wahab

2023-12-12

[GEO.TV] Moments after the City Council approved a resolution allowing the K-Electric to collect Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) charges from the citizens through their monthly power bills, Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Karachi Amir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman Monday announced tabling a no-confidence motion against Mayor Barrister Murtaza Wahab.

Expressing his disappointment over the attitude of the first Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) mayor of the port city, Rehman blasted the ruling party over the acute water crisis in the city, grabbing the mayor slot vial alleged rigging and not tabling the budget in the house.

Addressing the council's session, the JI leader said that the elected representatives were helpless to address the water-related issues of the public. He said that the solid waste department should be handed over to the local government.

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India-Pakistan

I Waved Tiranga From My Heart: Brother Of Hizbul Terrorist After Hoisting Tricolour In Kashmir

2023-08-15

A video of Rayees Mattoo, the brother of a Hizbul

.. Hizb ul Mujahideen (HM), the militant wing of Jamaat i-Islami, on Pakistan’s ISI payroll for the purpose of conquering Indian Kashmir...

terrorist, hoisting a national flag at his residence in Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

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India-Pakistan

Terrorist associate detained under PSA in Kishtwar: Police

2023-08-05

Terrorist associate detained under PSA in Kishtwar: Police https://t.co/bJnosh5lYY
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) August 3, 2023

Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir

Mr. Saroori was a district commander of Hizb ul Mujahideen (HM), the militant wing of Jamaat i-Islami on Pakistan’s ISI payroll for the purpose of conquering Indian Kashmir, so it seems safe to assume that Mr. Butt is likewise involved with HM.

Quoting a top police officer, news agency Kashmir Scroll reported that the detained bad boy associate was previously involved in anti national activities and accordingly was booked under provisions of UAPA Act and is facing trial in NIA court.

The officer said that the person's current activities are prejudicial to the security of the country and his free movements in the society also create circumstances to radicalise youth.Accordingly, the subject has been detained under PSA and lodged at District Jail Kishtwar.

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India-Pakistan

NIA raids absconding accused's house in Hizb conspiracy case

2023-07-23

#NIA raids absconding accused's house in Hizb conspiracy case@NIA_India https://t.co/mhzSRUvR5m
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) July 22, 2023

The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Saturday raided the residential premises of an absconding accused in the Hizb ul Mujahideen (HM)

...the militant wing of Jamaat i-Islami on Pakistan’s ISI payroll for the purpose of conquering Indian Kashmir...

terror conspiracy case, officials said.

The accused has been identified as Riaz Ahmed @ Hazari, a resident of Kishtwar district of Jammu & Kashmir
Kashmir

...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, said an NIA front man, in a statement.

"NIA has announced a cash reward of Rs 3 Lakh for leads on Riaz Ahmad @ Hazari. The searches conducted today at his house led to the seizure of one mobile phone, which is being analysed," he said.

The case, registered initially by ATS, UP Lucknow on 12th September 2018, was re-registered by NIA as case RC-02/2018/NIA/LKW under UA (P) Act on 24th September 2018.

"The case, registered against one Kamruk Zaman & others, related to a criminal conspiracy to carry out terror attacks by HM cadres at different places in U.P and other parts of India."

Kamrun and one absconding accused, Osama Bin Javed, were chargesheeted in NIA Special Court, Lucknow on 11th March 2019 under various sections of IPC and Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, 1967. Osama was killed in an encounter with security forces on 28th September 2019.

Subsequently, on 29th May 2021, a Supplementary Chargesheet was filed against arrested accused persons Nisar Ahmad Sheikh and Nishad Ahmad Butt, both residents of J&K. A second supplementary chargesheet was filed against arrested accused Danish Naseer on 25th November 2022.

"Investigations have revealed that accused Kamruj Zaman was radicalized by Osama Bin Javed to join the HM and both received nine months of physical and weapon-handling training by HM cadres. Absconding accused Riaz Ahmad @ Hazari, an active bully boy and district Deputy Commander of the HM, along with another co-accused Mohammad Amin @ Jahangir Saroori, also an active bully boy and District Commander of HM, was involved in recruiting and training accused Kamruj Zaman and Osama Bin Javed in the forests of Kishtwar district of J&K."

"After completion of training, Kamruj was directed to set up bases and hideouts, and select targets in U.P, Assam and other parts of India for terrorist activities. Accordingly, he had come to Kanpur where he had also carried out reconnaissance of a few targets."

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India-Pakistan

LEA personnel among 6 booked for murder of JI worker in Karachi

2020-04-16

[DAWN] Surjani police on Wednesday registered a murder case against six suspects, including a member of a law enforcement agency, for allegedly killing a Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
(JI) worker and causing injuries to three others in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
a day earlier.

A gun attack on JI's Taiser Town office early on Tuesday morning had left one of its worker dead and three others injured, according to police and party sources.

They said gunnies riding cycle of violences pulled up outside the party office in Sector 36-C where workers were busy arranging relief goods for distribution among the area's residents in the backdrop of the ongoing lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)

...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
, and opened fire on some workers.

One of the six people booked is an LEA personnel. The three named suspects have not been arrested so far.

Officials said that the JI worker's killing could be the result of a clash between the two sides that took place on Monday evening. On that day, they said, JI workers and activists of another group were busy distributing ration among people separately in the same area. The activity took an ugly turn when a mob-like situation emerged and the two sides blamed each other for the mismanagement.

"The argument turned into a scuffle between the workers of the two sides. They pelted stones and used sticks and bricks to attack each other. The situation turned normal after area residents intervened and police also rushed to the site and dispersed the activists," said an official of the Surjani Town cop shoppe.

During the clash between the two groups, who were said to belong to the same neighbourhood, a person from the firing suspects' side was injured.

Subsequently, on Tuesday morning, some gunnies riding cycle of violences pulled up outside the JI office. Two of them got off the two-wheeler and fired shots at a group of workers standing outside the office and sped away along with their aides.

"As a result, 35-year-old Javed Ahmed went titzup while three others — the elder brother of the dear departed, 22-year-old Azeem and 18-year-old Adnan — sustained bullet wounds," said the official.

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India-Pakistan

PML-N, PPP should quit assemblies, says Siraj

2019-10-19

[DAWN] The PML-N and the PPP should quit assemblies if they want early elections in the country, says Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
Emir Senator Sirajul Haq

...current head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. Siraj was born in 1962 and entered politics shortly after that...
Speaking to journalists after addressing ’Mashaikh Conference’ at the JI headquarters Mansoora on Thursday, he said: "The JUI-F has the right to protest against the government and it’s the responsibility of Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer...
to fulfill his words and provide container and food to the protestors planning to enter Islamabad on Oct 31," he said.

Regretting that the government and opposition have lost interest in Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, he said both had their own priorities. The rulers, he added, wanted to fight the case of Kashmir while sitting in air-conditioned halls of Islamabad without realising the threat the Modi government posed to the country’s illusory sovereignty.

He warned the rulers against designs of New Delhi which was bent upon changing the demography of the region. He said the government should make preemptive strike to thwart the designs of enemy against Pakistain. He demanded that the government announce clear roadmap for the liberation of Kashmir from Indian yoke.

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India-Pakistan

Civil society continues protest in Karachi against Sindh govt's 'failure to ensure rights of minorities'

2019-09-19

[DAWN] Civil society activists and members of the Hindu community held a protest in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
's Clifton area on Wednesday against the Sindh government's "failure to ensure the rights of minority citizens".

Protestors staged a sit-in at Teen Talwar and carried banners inscribed with slogans calling for the provision of justice for Dr Nimrita Chandani, who was found dead at a medical college in Larkana.

A large number of real estate agents were among the protestors in a show of support for Nimrita's father, who is a real estate agent, said South SSP Sheeraz Nazeer.

Others included civil society activist Mohammed Jibran Nasir, Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
leader Zakir Mahenti, and PTI MNA Ramesh Kumar.

The protest, which began in the evening, continued till late into the night. It was called off temporarily ‐ with a resolve to begin again on Thursday ‐ after assurances were given by the government that a meeting will be held between the protestor delegation and the law advisor.

"Protest for #JusticeForNimerta & #GhotkiTemple will begin again tomorrow at #TeenTalwar at 5pm. Protest was temporarily called off today after assurance from Govt that Advisor Law will meet protestors delegation tomorrow. Protest will begin at 5pm and continue till demands are met," said Nasir in a post on Twitter.

The main Clifton road was "partially" closed for traffic due to the protest, said SSP Nazeer. He added that the protesters were staging the sit-in at the side of the main road, therefore, the traffic was not diverted on alternative roads.

Nimrita, a BDS final-year student at Bibi Aseefa Dental College, Larkana was found dead in her hostel on Sept 16. The protesters have termed it as "a murder of a student belonging to the Hindu community".

They have demanded a judicial inquiry led by a judge of Sindh High Court into the death of the student. They have also urged the government to suspend the hostel warden and demand the issuance of a show cause notice to the vice chancellor of the medical university in Larkana.

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India-Pakistan

Textbooks of hate

2016-04-01

[DAWN] In a comprehensive and scathing survey of textbooks published by the KP Textbook Board, Tahira Abdullah sums up all that is wrong with them. In Textbooks of Hate or Peace? she says the books glorify war, ‘otherise’ non-Muslims, take a uni-dimensional view of reality, distort history and stereotype women.

Textbooks of English, Urdu, Pakistan studies, social studies, Islamiat. general knowledge, geography and history published under three different governments that have ruled KP since 2002 have been analysed. What emerges clearly is that any subject can be used as an agent for pushing a narrow religious agenda. This in turn can be exploited for the attainment of nefarious political goals by those in office.

The conclusion? The MMA, the ANP and now the PTI (in coalition with the Jamaat-i-Islami) have wreaked havoc on the minds of KP’s children. Tahira points out that the different ideological complexion of these three rulers has not made much of a difference.

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India-Pakistan

Opposition’s rigging allegation: Arrests as activists besiege police station

2015-12-11

SAHIWAL: Nineteen losing candidates of the second phase of local elections and their 300 supporters on Wednesday dared police to arrest them after marching on the city police station to protest registration of a case.

Having lost elections for the slots of chairman, vice chairman and councillor, they had arranged a gathering at Jogi Chowk on Sunday last to protest what they said rigging. Police registered a case against 22 losing candidates of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, the Jamaat-i-Islami and some independents and their supporters under 16 MPO.

As the protesters besieged the police station, officials arrested the 19 candidates and detained them in lock-up. They refused to arrest 300 supporters on the plea that such an arrest could be made only after identification through videos.

City police station SHO Masood Ahmed is the complainant in the FIR and interestingly he was not present at the time of arrests.

These candidates blamed the PML-N district leadership, Punjab Minster for Ushr and Zakat Malik Nadeem Kamran, MPA Malik Arshad and MNA Pir Imran Shah for political victimisation through police action.

Sheikh Ijaz, president of Tahaffuz-i-Sahiwal Forum, told the media that “we have been politically victimised for questioning rigging in urban union councils of Sahiwal city.”

DSP Ziaul Haq, along with a heavy contingent of police and Elite Force, remained alert at the police station and had to resort to baton-charge of the crowd to disperse it. Police registered case against nine of the protesters and the DSP said more cases would be instituted if they refused to disperse.

It merits mention that the returning officer of Union Council 6 has already written to the DRO that two bags of rejected votes had been misplaced at polling stations 64 and 69. Shafqat and Sheikh Ijaz contested election in the UC as independent candidates and they both challenged incomplete consolidation of final results by RO Khalid Khan on Nov 23.

The Lahore High Court’s Multan Bench has already asked the Election Commission of Pakistan to stop the gazette notification of UC 6 chairman result which was won by Haji Latif of the PML-N with one vote.

Sarmad Shafqat alleged that the RO consolidated results without counting 85 votes misplaced in two polling stations.

Meanwhile, the opposition parties condemned police action and the Bar Council and different wings of the Anjuman-i-Tajran announced protest.

Published in Dawn, December 10th, 2015

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India-Pakistan

Army statement not a warning, says Fazl

2015-11-13

[Dawn] PESHAWAR: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that recent statement by military commanders about the National Action Plan (NAP) should not be viewed as a warning but should be taken in “a positive sense”.

Talking to media personnel here before attending a tribal jirga on Thursday, he said that apex committees were the appropriate forums to discuss national issues, including implementation of NAP.

“Take statement of the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) positively... it should not be considered a warning,” he said when asked about the press release issued after the corps commanders’ meeting in Rawalpindi on Tuesday.

“Apex committees exist and such issues can be discussed there,” he said, adding that the army chief could not issue directives to the prime minister.

The apex committees, comprising civilian and military leaders, have been set up at the federal level and in the four provinces to take decisions regarding terrorism and governance.

He said the government had tasked the army with restoring peace in Karachi, Balochistan and Fata and if bad governance was an issue and a hindrance to NAP’s implementation then an institution could send its proposals to the government.

Addressing the grand jirga convened by JUI-F to discuss problems being faced by the people of Fata, Maulana Fazl criticised some political parties and a group of Fata lawmakers for campaigning for integration of tribal areas with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

He said that some political parties were trying to sabotage the efforts of the grand jirga which had been mandated in 2012 to work for peace in Fata.

All major political parties like Awami National Party, Jamaat-i-Islami, Qaumi Watan Party, Pakistan Tehreek Insaf and other groups are in favour of merger of Fata with KP. The ANP has announced its support for a rally to be taken out on Nov 16 for Fata reforms.

The JUI-F chief said that any decision relating to Fata should be taken after consultations with tribal elders.

He said that tribal elders had reservations over the six-member committee set up by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to finalise recommendations about Fata reforms. Adviser to Prime Minister Sartaj Aziz is head of the committee.

The jirga asked Maulana Fazl to hold talks with the prime minister and convey its reservations over Fata issues to him.

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India-Pakistan

JUI-F distances from counterterrorism legislation

2015-01-06

Jamiat-i-Ulema-i-Pakistan-Fazal (JUI-F) has startled its coalition partners by announcing that it will not support the amendments in the Constitution and the Army Act the PML-N-led government has tabled in the National Assembly to fight terrorism.

“This is an action targeting the religious-minded of a single sect. We were neither informed about the amendments nor was our input (in drafting them) taken,” declared the party chief, Maulana Fazlur Rehman, at a press conference here.

His statement came on the day the assembly started debating the bill amending the Army Act to allow military courts to try civilians too in terrorism cases.

JUI-F chief was also critical of linking madaris (Islamic schools) and seminaries with the spread of terrorism in the country.

His grievances were shared by the chief of Jamaat-i-Islami, the only other Islamic party represented in the parliament. Mr Sirajul Haq separately told a party gathering that the target of those decrying terrorism was Islam and the madaris.

Both the leaders spoke of ‘consequences’ if their fears became the truth in the guise of counterterrorism under the National Action Plan (NAP) that their parties had agreed to in the aftermath of the Peshawar carnage of schoolchildren last month.

However, Jamaat-i-Islami Emir sounded more specific. “If there is any large scale action against the madaris,” he said, Maulana Fazlur Rehman confined himself to saying that there is no distinction between terrorists. “A terrorist is a terrorist. How can one say this is religious terrorism? And what about killing in the name of ethnicity and tribes? Is that not terrorism?” he asked.

Incidentally, neither the Maulana neither his party ever hinted at any of the known terrorist groups being behind the terror attacks the JUI-F have suffered over the years.

Senior party leaders say the government’s approach to the issue is not directed to end terrorism, but to sidetrack the public sentiments from the root causes of terrorism.

“This is a flawed policy,” spokesperson and former JUI-F MNA, Hafiz Hussain Ahmed told Dawn.

“Who cut deals with Baitullah Mehsud?” he pointedly asked referring to the ferocious leader of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, killed in a US drone attack in August 2009.

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Bangladesh

Elected dictatorship

2015-01-06

FOR all practical purposes, Bangladesh is now an elected dictatorship. A year ago, Prime Minister Hasina Wajid stole the general election and then went on to consolidate her rule by crushing all dissent, wreaking vendetta on her foes and hanging opposition leaders through a judicial process condemned as flawed by world rights bodies.
And if you can't believe the world's rights bodies who can you trust?
On Sunday, the Bangladesh National Party’s head office was sealed and its leader, Khaleda Zia, confined to the party office for what the government called her own security. The real reason was to crush the countrywide strike called by Ms Zia to demand a fresh election, because Ms Wajid had abolished the constitutional clause providing for a caretaker, neutral government to hold the polls. This was a provocation to the opposition, because since 1991 general elections in Bangladesh had been held by caretaker governments. No wonder, the BNP and 17 other parties boycotted the polls in which Ms Wajid’s Awami League ‘won’ 153 of the National Assembly’s 300 seats because the opposition fielded no candidates.
If you don't show up you don't win.
The fraudulent majority in parliament has since then enabled the ruling AL to persecute the opposition.
They didn't show up at the polls but they ran daily riots, with the Jamaat's cadres leading the way.
The most blatant form of the government’s use of courts to destroy all dissent is to be seen in the flawed trials of many opposition leaders, especially those belonging to the Jamaat-i-Islami, which has for long been waging a campaign against the AL government.
Like from before the time the country came into existence.
Several JI leaders have been hanged for their alleged war crimes during the 1971 insurgency, and many more leaders, including those belonging to the BNP, are on trial.
Their "alleged" war crimes were proven in court despite all the attempts at witness intimidation and in some cases murder.
The BNP-led strike may not lead to a fresh election,
They weren't able to derail the last one.
but the violence seen on Monday could snowball and throw Bangladesh into anarchy.
Kind of like a replay of the days running up to last election.
Persecution of the opposition and judicial farce are not what Bangladesh needs.
... sez Pakistain...
The rivalry between the two leaders and periodic strikes have done enormous harm to Bangladesh’s fledgling democracy and have hurt its economy. What the country needs is national reconciliation and peace to consolidate democracy and speed up economic development.
What it needs is less hereditary political leadership and a lot less involvement of religious parties in a secular state.

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