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British-Pakistani judge hands jail terms to West Yorkshire grooming gang members

2025-01-19

[GEO.TV] British-Pak Judge Ahmed Nadim has sentenced three men from Keighley who were part of a West Yorkshire grooming gang in the late 1990s for rape at Bradford Crown Court.

Overall, a group of eight men, who were part of the grooming gang have been jugged
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, BBC reported.

Three of those included Ibrar Hussain, 47, and brothers Imtiaz Ahmed, 62, and Fayaz Ahmed, 45 were sentenced for rape by the court a day ago.

The court convicted the men after finding them guilty of non-recent sexual offences on a girl following a trial in November and December 2024.

Five other men had been jugged
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last year for their involvement in the sexual assault.

According to the prosecution, the grooming gang members had raped a 13-year-old girl in West Yorkshire in 1990.

Hussain and Imtiaz and Fayaz were all sentenced for raping one of the girls, who was aged between 13 and 14 when the offences took place, the report said.

Hussain was jugged
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for six-and-a-half years for two counts of rape, whereas, Imtiaz for nine years in his absence for one count of rape and Fayaz was given seven-and-a-half years imprisonment in his absence for two counts of rape.

Imtiaz and Fayaz had absconded during a retrial last year and were believed to be abroad, the court heard.

So their real sentence is banishment, which is somewhat better than nothing. Though I would have preferred full castration and solitary confinement for life, those are not things England does anymore.

After sentencing the three men, Judge Nadim expressed hope that the sentences gave the victims "comfort of knowing that their voices at long last have been heard".

"They have had to tread a painful and arduous path. I commend them both for their courage and steadfastness," he said.

After the hearing, West Yorkshire Police stated in a statement that five men have received the following sentences after the first trial which concluded on October 20, 2023:

Amreaz Asghar 47 of Keighley was jugged
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for 4 and a half years for rape

Perwaz Asghar 50 of Nottingham was jugged
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for 6 and a half years for two indecent assaults

Mohammed Din 47 of Keighley was jugged
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for 14 years for 11 counts of rape

Sajid Mahmood Khan 45 of Keighley was jugged
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for 3 years for rape.

Zehroon Razak 47 of Keighley was jugged
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for 6 and a half years for rape

Pointing towards the recent verdict, the force said that the second trial was concluded on December 13, 2024, in which one man was convicted of child sex offences and two other men were also convicted but the trial was held in their absence.

Earlier this month, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said that the vast majority of sexual grooming gang offences are carried out by white men.

Possibly true. But we have no way of knowing, when most such offenses by “Asians” have been actively covered up.

The statement came after X billionaire owner Elon Musk published several posts making false accusations against British-Pak men.

Sorry, O GEO reporter, but those accusations are true. You are part of the cover-up.

New figures from the police database show that, where ethnicity data was available, 85% of ''group-based'' child abusers were white in the first three quarters of 2024. The same data for the whole of 2023 showed 83% of offenders were white.

And where ethnicity data was deliberately not recorded by the police? Or the crimes themselves were not recorded by the police? One must always understand statistics in context, you know. That’s what good reporters strive always to do, unlike propagandists.

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India-Pakistan

Asif Zardari sworn in as 14th President of Pakistan

2024-03-11

[GEO.TV] Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
Asif Ali <q>Ten Percent</q> Zardari

...former president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in...
, who was elected as the 14th president of the country with a big margin a day earlier, has taken oath as the head of state today (Sunday).

Chief Justice of Pakistain (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa administered the oath to the newly-elected president at the swearing-in ceremony that took place at the Aiwan-e-Sadr in Islamabad.

The ceremony was attended by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, outgoing president Arif Alvi, all three service chiefs, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) General Sahir Shamshad Mirza.

Moreover, governors of all four provinces, chief ministers and foreign diplomats also participated in the ceremony.

Zardari, who was the joint candidate of the ruling alliance, was elected as the country’s president for the second time on Saturday after he defeated PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council
...an Islamist(aren't they all in Pakistain?) political party which claims to represent the Barelvi school of Sunni Islam. Member parties of the Sunni Ittehad Council includes the Aalmi Tanzeem Ahle Sunnat of Pir Afzal Qadri (of Gujrat) and Jamiat Ulema e Pakistan - Sawad e Azam of Sayyid Mahfooz Shah Sahib Mashadi...
(SIC) candidate Mahmood Khan Achakzai by a huge margin.

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India-Pakistan

Zardari gets elected as president for historic second time with overwhelming majority

2024-03-10

[GEO.TV] Same old crap, same old crooks.Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman >Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
Asif Ali <q>Ten Percent</q> Zardari

...former president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in...
, the joint candidate of the ruling ~~mob~~ alliance, was elected as the country’s president for the second time after he defeated PTI-backed Sunni Ittehad Council
...an Islamist(aren't they all in Pakistain?) political party which claims to represent the Barelvi school of Sunni Islam. Member parties of the Sunni Ittehad Council includes the Aalmi Tanzeem Ahle Sunnat of Pir Afzal Qadri (of Gujrat) and Jamiat Ulema e Pakistan - Sawad e Azam of Sayyid Mahfooz Shah Sahib Mashadi...
(SIC) nominee Mahmood Khan Achakzai with a huge margin.

Zardari Saturday secured 411 electoral votes in parliament and all four provincial assemblies with the backing of allied parties — mainly Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
-Pakistain (MQM-P).

Ackakzai bagged 181 votes as he was only able to secure the majority of votes in the PTI-backed SIC-dominated Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Assembly.

Prominent politicians who cast ballots in the National Assembly include former premier Nawaz Sharif
...served ~~two~~ three non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf, then by the courts...
, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, Zardari, MQM-P’s Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Farooq Sattar. PTI leaders Barrister Gohar Ali Khan, Asad Qaiser, and Achakzai among others also voted in the presidential election.

To ensure democratic traditions, Zardari also met his rival candidate Achakzai in the House.

Chief Justice of Pakistain (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa will administer an oath to President-elect Zardari at 4pm today (Sunday) at the President House.

As many as 381 politicians out of 398 cast ballots in both houses of parliament, while 17 politicians belonging to Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...the political wing of the Pak Taliban...
-Fazl (JUI-F), Jamat-e-Islami (JI), PTI, and Grand Democratic Alliance (GDA) did not cast vote in the presidential election due to different reasons.

The JUI-F,JI and GDA had announced a boycott of the presidential elections, while PTI senators — Shibli Faraz, Ijaz Chaudhry and Azam Swati — also did not participate in the voting.

Likewise, in the three provincial assemblies — Sindh, Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
, and KP — Zardari obtained a majority of votes while Ackakzai was only able to win the majority vote in the KP Assembly.

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India-Pakistan

Zardari tipped to win presidential election as PPP 'secures' 345 electoral votes

2024-03-06

[GEO.TV] Pakistain Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Ten Percent Zardari
Asif Ali <q>Ten Percent</q> Zardari

...former president of Pakistain, husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, who has been singularly lacking in curiosity about who done her in...
is tipped to win the presidential election as he has gathered the support of 345 electoral votes, Geo News reported citing sources on Tuesday.

The PPP, which allied with the Pakistain Moslem League-Nawaz (PML-N) after the 2024 nationwide polls, successfully attained the support of 345 electoral votes for its nominee Zardari ahead of the presidential election slated to be held on March 9, the sources said.

PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari was apprised by the committee members formed for the presidential campaign regarding the achievement in a briefing session ahead of the contest for the coveted post.

In the upcoming electoral event, Zardari will face Mahmood Khan Achakzai, chairman of the Pashtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP), who has been nominated as presidential candidate by the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI)-backed Sunni Ittehad Council
...an Islamist(aren't they all in Pakistain?) political party which claims to represent the Barelvi school of Sunni Islam. Member parties of the Sunni Ittehad Council includes the Aalmi Tanzeem Ahle Sunnat of Pir Afzal Qadri (of Gujrat) and Jamiat Ulema e Pakistan - Sawad e Azam of Sayyid Mahfooz Shah Sahib Mashadi...
(SIC).

The PPP’s veteran politician, who served as the 11th president from 2008 to 2013, has the support of the Nawaz-led party, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement
...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead...
-Pakistain (MQM-P), the Pakistain Moslem League-Quaid (PML-Q), the Istehkam-e-Pakistain Party (IPP), and others, is eyeing his second presidential term after replacing the outgoing president Dr Arif Alvi.

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Aimal Wali demands action against those who ‘resettled’ militants in Pakistan

2023-04-20

[Dawn] Awami National Party
founded by Abdul Wali Khan in 1986. Part of the PPP-led cabinet 2008-13. The ANP is considered left wing, advocating for secularism, democratic socialism, public sector government, and economic egalitarianism....
provincial president Aimal Wali Khan has demanded that those who took the decision of resettling ~~bandidos~~ gunnies in Pakistain should be taken to task.

"The security agencies have admitted bringing the ~~bandidos~~ gunnies back to Pakistain from Afghanistan during the rule of Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
government was a wrong decision, so those who took the decision should be punished," he demanded in a video message released from the Bacha Khan Markaz here on Wednesday.

"Resettlement of ~~bandidos~~ gunnies was and is a project of a few persons," he said and demanded: "Former army chief Gen retired Qamar Javed Bajwa and former Inter-Services Intelligence
...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir...
chief Gen retired Faiz Hameed should be questioned as to why they committed such a heinous crime."

Aimal Wali claimed that 100 ~~bandidos~~ gunnies were freed during the PTI government and action should be taken against former prime minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
, President Arif Alvi and former adviser Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif.

He said ANP stood against all forms of militancy and would continue to resist the menace.

He also claimed he was facing threats to his life and told workers that if something bad happened to him, they should not lodge an FIR, and should instead take Dire Revenge from the perpetrators of terrorists.

"If something happens to me, the ANP workers should take revenage from Gen retired Qamar Bajwa, Let-Gen retired Faiz Hameed, President Arif Alvi, former prime minister Imran Khan, former KP chief minister Mahmood Khan and former adviser Barrister Mohammad Ali Saif," he said.

The ANP provincial president disclosed that security agencies had arrested a jacket wallah from Charsadda two weeks ago, who revealed during investigation that he belonged to the so-called Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems...
-Khurasan group and wanted to target him (Aimal). He also said another suicide bomber was arrested from a religious seminary in the historic provincial capital, who also wanted to target him.

"It looks like after the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
Pakistain, Tehrik-e-Taliban Afghanistan, we are now on the hit list of the so-called Islamic State," Aimal Wali said, adding: "This is what happens when you raise voice for Pakhtun’s rights."

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3 police officers gunned down by ‘terrorists’ in targeted attack in Nowshera

2022-12-04

[Dawn] Three coppers were shot full of holes by forces of Evil in Nowshera district’s Akora Khattak on Saturday, according to police and rescue officials.

"Three coppers died in the attack," Nowshera police front man Durrani told Dawn.com, saying that the assailants targeted a police van.

He said that a police party reached the scene of the crime soon after the attack, cordoned off the area and initiated a search operation.

Durrani said the search operation was ongoing while the police were also gathering details of the incident and assailants.

The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police identified the officers as Head Constable Manzoor, Constable Amanullah and Constable Ayaz.

A Rescue 1122 statement said medical teams moved the bodies to District Headquarters Hospital Nowshera.

Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan took notice of the incident and summoned an incident report from the police chief.

"The incident is very tragic and the sacrifice of the deaders will not go in vain," the chief minister said. He also prayed for the dear departed and extended his condolences to their families.

The incident comes after a suicide kaboom targeting a police truck in Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
’s Baleli area on Wednesday in which four people were killed and 24 others injured.

A jacket wallah travelling in a rickshaw targeted the truck carrying a police contingent for the security of polio
polio

...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
workers, who were administering vaccines during an ongoing campaign in Kuchlak and other areas of Quetta district.

The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Pakistain had grabbed credit for the incident and confirmed it was a suicide attack. The attack had happened a couple of days after the holy warrior group called off its ceasefire with the government and asked its combatants to carry out attacks across the country.

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Terrorist attack in Lakki Marwat martyrs six policemen

2022-11-20

[The Nation (Pak)] At least six coppers — including an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) — were martyred when two gunnies on a cycle of violence opened fire on their mobile during routine patrolling, officials confirmed Wednesday.

The incident took place within the parameters of the Dadiwala Police Station when the cops were conducting a routine patrol near a fair in the city, a spokesperson for the city's police said.

The martyred cops include ASI Ilm Deen, Detective Foot Constable Ahmed Nawaz, Lower Head Constable Zubair, Frontier Reserve Police's sepoy Usman Ali, Constable Mahmood Khan, and driver Dil Jan.

The spokesperson for the district's police said that a search operation has been initiated to arrest the terrorists.

In a statement issued shortly after the heinous attack, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned it and paid tribute to the martyred coppers. "The nation salutes brave officers who have sacrificed their lives for their motherland."

Terming gunnies as the enemies of Pakistain, the prime minister vowed that the nation would stand strong against them. He then urged the KP government to provide the "Shuhda Package" to the families of the dear departed.

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Parliament’s imprimatur

2022-06-24

[Dawn] IT may be a given that the country’s security establishment would take the lead in talks with the banned TTP, but it was important that this hugely consequential issue be part of a more inclusive process. And that is the direction in which matters at last seem to be moving.

On Wednesday, the military top brass in a briefing to the politicianship held out the assurance that no extra-constitutional concessions would be given to the holy warriors and any deal arrived at would be subject to parliamentary approval.

The meeting, the first of its kind since the coalition government came to power, was arranged after the PPP protested that the civilian leadership was being sidelined in the ongoing negotiations. It goes to show that it is worth demanding a seat at the table, instead of being resigned to irrelevance.

The implications of ’mainstreaming’ holy warriors are far-reaching and must be discussed threadbare by the people’s representatives, for they would be in the hot seat if things do not go as planned. The imprimatur of parliament is essential.

In the interest of inclusivity, the coalition should have also invited the PTI leadership. At the very least, the presence of KP Chief Minister Mahmood Khan should have been sought at the briefing.

One of the TTP’s demands is a rollback of Fata’s merger with KP, but they have been told there can be no reversal of the move that was effected through a constitutional amendment. Their other demands, indicated the military officials at Wednesday’s meeting, are under consideration.

As matters stand, an indefinite ceasefire between the government and the TTP was announced last month with negotiations set to continue, and an in-camera parliament session is to be convened to bring politicians into the loop. But there is a long way to go before any resolution can be arrived at.

A number of thorny issues need to be ironed out, not the least of which is how the holy warriors are to be ’mainstreamed’. It would certainly rankle the public if top commanders whose hands are stained with the blood of innocent Paks are given amnesty.

Of course, it is debatable whether any deal is even possible. Peace agreements with holy warriors in the past have invariably failed; in fact, these ~~violent~~ mostly peaceful actors have used the time to regroup and come back stronger than ever. Moreover, the TTP comprises several outfits with varying degrees of heft within the combine as well as different levels of commitment to militancy. Some are war-weary, while others, like the Jamaatul Ahrar
...A Pak Taliban splinter group that split off from the Mullah Fazlullah faction because it wasn't violent enough...
, are driving a hard bargain. It would be exceedingly difficult to bring them all on the same page.

That said, if an agreement is arrived at, it must be one the public perceives as doing some justice to their years of suffering. And its details must not be kept from them.

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India-Pakistan

TTP extends ceasefire until May 30 as talks continue in Afghanistan

2022-05-19

[Dawn] The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban
Taliban

...Arabic for students...
Pakistain (TTP) on Wednesday announced an extension in a ceasefire with the government of Pakistain as talks with the Death Eater group continued in Afghanistan.

In a statement shared with the media via WhatsApp, TTP front man Mohammad Khurasani said that the ceasefire would remain in place until May 30.

"Talks are under way between the committees of the TTP and the government of Pakistain," he said in the statement, adding that the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan — the Afghan Taliban — was mediating between the two sides.

Khurasani went on to say that a 32-member committee of the Mehsud tribe in South Wazoo and a 16-member committee from the Malakand division also held talks with the TTP on May 13 and 14.

"The committees called for a ceasefire by both sides in light of the ongoing talks. Therefore, keeping in view the demand, both sides have announced a ceasefire until May 30," he said.

The Afghan Taliban also confirmed the talks in Kabul, with government front man Zabihullah Mujahid saying the Islamic Emirate played the role of a mediator.

In a series of tweets in Pashto, he reported "significant progress" in the talks and also shared that a ceasefire had been agreed upon.

"The Islamic Emirate Afghanistan, in a good faith, is making efforts to take the process forward. We hope that both sides will be accommodating and show flexibility," he said.

Dawn.com reached out to Pak officials for comment and is currently awaiting a response.

A Pak embassy source in Kabul confirmed the visit of the Pak delegation but remained tightlipped about the composition of the team and the details of the talks.

TTP attacks on Pak soil have of late witnessed an uptick.

The previous PTI government and the TTP had agreed to a month-long ceasefire to hold talks last year. However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
the Death Eater group had declined to extend the ceasefire after the one-month period ended, accusing the government of failing to honour the decisions reached earlier.

Earlier this month, AFP had reported that another ceasefire, agreed for the Eid period, had been been extended until May 16 in order to hold peace talks. A TTP letter outlining the truce had told fighters "not to violate the decision taken by the central command".

Reports had also emerged about the release of two key TTP leaders, Moslem Khan and Mahmood Khan, and their subsequent handover to the Afghan Taliban. Both leaders were on the list of over 100 detainees, the release of whom is one of the group's key demands.

However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
the TTP front man did not comment on the matter when asked by Dawn.com. "I do not have any confirmed information about the prisoners," Khurasani said.

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2 Sikhs gunned down on outskirts of Peshawar

2022-05-16

[DAWN] Two members of the Sikh community were killed after person or persons unknown opened fire on them near the outskirts of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar

And the Indian response, reported by One India:

India on Sunday asked Pakistain to sincerely investigate the killing of two Sikh businessmen in northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and take strict action against those responsible for the "deplorable" incident.

External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi said India has registered its strong protest with Pakistain on the continued "targeting" of members of the minority community in that country.

Bagchi said India expects that the Pakistain government would look after the safety, security and well-being of its minority communities.

The two Sikh businessmen - Saljeet Singh (42) and Ranjeet Singh (38) - were rubbed out on Sunday by unidentified button men in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

"We have seen the reports on the brutal killing of two Sikh traders by unidentified gunnies in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar. Sadly, this is not the first such case or a rare occurrence," Bagchi said.

He said "grave concerns" have been expressed by various quarters of the Indian civil society and the Sikh community at this shocking and deplorable incident.

"We have registered our strong protest with the Government of Pakistain on continued targeting of members of the minority community in Pakistain," Bagchi said.

"We call upon the authorities concerned to sincerely investigate the matter and take strict action against those responsible for this deplorable incident," he said.

According to police, both the businessmen went titzup after being attacked by two bike-borne assailants in the morning.

"We expect that the Government of Pakistain, in the discharge of its responsibilities, will look after the safety, security and well-being of its minority communities," the spokesperson said.

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Priest shot dead, another injured in Peshawar

2022-01-31

[Dawn] A priest was killed while another was injured after armed assailants opened fire on them in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar

...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
on Sunday.

According to a police statement, the incident occurred near Ring Road within Gulbahar cop shoppe limits. The statement said a heavy police contingent had reached the scene and a search operation was underway.

"Evidence is being collected from the scene of the crime and CCTV cameras are also being checked," police said.

The statement added that the body had been shifted to the hospital for conducting an autopsy while further investigation was underway.

"William Siraj was a padre at a church within Chamkani cop shoppe limits," the statement said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet......
a spokesperson for Lady Reading Hospital said that the injured priest was discharged after being provided medical treatment for minor injuries.

Speaking to the media at the scene of the crime, Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Abbas Ahsan said that the attack on the Christian community was tragic.

He added that according to initial reports, there were two attackers involved in the incident. "A comprehensive investigation has been launched," he said. CCPO Ahsan stated that members of the minority community were targeted, adding that it was a "terrorist act".

He said that in the past, police had identified the perpetrators of attacks targeting minorities and said that the same would also be done in this case. The officer said that officials were conducting geo-fencing and looking at other data.

"We are determined to protect minorities," the CCPO said, adding that a team consisting of officials from the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and Peshawar police had been formed to probe the case.

For a given value of protection, of course...

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet......
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Mahmood Khan took notice of the incident and directed the IG to take necessary steps for arresting the culprits.

He also condemned the fact that religious leaders of the Christian community were targeted, adding that the perpetrators would not be able to escape the clutches of the law.

Which law might that be? Pakistan is a Muslim country, openly submissive to Sharia law. And Sharia law places all unbelievers at the mercy of any passing member of the Master Religion. This time the mercy was withheld.

Khan offered his condolences to the Christian community and the family of the dear departed.

“Sorry your guy was attacked. Had he been Muslim, he wouldn’t have been.”

He also prayed for the swift recovery of the other padre injured in the incident.

The chief minister directed officials to provide the injured with the best possible medical treatment.

Speaking to the media, PTI MPA Wilson Wazir said that the dear departed padre did not face any threats and was coming and going freely.

"Police are investigating the incident and will reach the perpetrators soon," he said. The MPA said that it would be premature to comment on the incident at this time, adding that he had full confidence in the police.

Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, bullets whapped! around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet......
PPP Senator Sherry Rehman strongly condemned the attacked.

"Terrorism that targets anyone, especially for their faith, is heinous and must be fought against with the full force of [a] clear, concerted policy and state power. No compromise, no equivocation," she said.

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India-Pakistan

Seventh-grader dies mysteriously in police custody in Peshawar

2021-03-16

[DAILYTIMES.PK] A student of seventh grade, Shahzaib, died mysteriously in police custody on Sunday. Student’s relatives and local people set off a protest outside the Gharbi cop shoppe, Beautiful Downtown Peshawar

...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...
.According to a statement issued from the office of CCPO, the student named Shahzaib, son of Khyal Mohammad and resident of Warsak Road, was arrested on Sunday on the complaint of shopkeepers in Liaquat Bazaar for exchanging hot words and pointing weapon at them.
7th Grade, hmmm? Well, in the copper's favor he was 27
The police registered an FIR against Shahzaib under section 15 of Arms Act. However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
later Shahzaib did away with himself inside the lockup, the statement added.

According to Shahzaib’s father, his son went to the bazaar at around 2pm to make his pictures, needed for the school examination.

He said, police called him at 3pm to inform that his son was with them. He reached the cop shoppe within half an hour.

"When I reached the cop shoppe the police didn’t tell me anything for three hours about my son’s condition," he said, adding the police informed him later that his son had did away with himself by hanging himself with something in the lockup.

He alleged that his son died because of police torture in the lockup. He asked authorities to provide him justice as his son was treated inhumanly by police.

Relatives of the dear departed student and a large number of people, staged a protest demonstration outside the Gharbi cop shoppe and blocked the busy Sunehri Masjid Road. They rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the police and their misuse of power.

Chief Minister Mahmood Khan took the instantaneous notice of the event and suspended the entire staff of the Gharbi cop shoppe and ordered for a judicial inquiry into the incident.

Advisor to the chief minister on information Kamran Bangash said that if police officials are found involved in killing of the student after the judicial inquiry, they would be given exemplary punishment.

Speaking at a presser, Chief City Police Officer Abbas Ihsan and SSP operations Yasir Afridi said investigation into the death of the student was underway.

They said that right now, they cannot reveal the details about how and with which instrument the student did away with himself. The Gharbi police SHO Dost Mohammad was also arrested and put behind the bars.

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