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Bangladesh

5 more murder cases filed against ousted Bangladesh PM Hasina

2024-08-19

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Five more murder cases were filed against ousted prime minister ~~the loathesome~~ Sheikh Hasina
...Bangla dynastic politician and now exiled former Prime Minister of Bangladesh. She was President of the Bangla Awami League since the Lower Paleolithic. She is the eldest of five children of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangla. Her party defeated the BNP-led Four-Party Alliance in the 2008 parliamentary elections. She once before held the office, from 1996 to 2001, when she was defeated in a landslide. She and the head of the BNP, Khaleda Zia showed such blind animosity toward each other that they are known as the Battling Begums. That is probably because Khaleda's late husband was the Pak tool who had Mujib assassinated...
and her aides in Dhaka, Narayanganj, Rajshahi, Rangpur, and Joypurhat between Saturday night and Sunday evening.

With this, 11 murder cases and an abduction case have been filed against Hasina and her aides at different cop shoppes across the country.

In addition to that, two complaints were filed with the International Crimes Tribunal over mass killings against Hasina, who resigned amid a student-led mass uprising and fled to India on August 5.

A case was filed on Sunday against the ousted prime minister and 12 others over the murder of two students in the capital's Sutrapur area during the recent student protests led by the platform Student Movement Against Discrimination.

The 12 other accused are former road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader, Dhaka south city mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh, former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former foreign minister Hasan Mahmud, former education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Nowfel, former state minister for posts, telecommunications, and information technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak, former inspector general of police Chowdhury Abdullah al-Mamun, former Dhaka Metropolitan Police detective branch chief Harun Or Rashid, DMP joint commissioner Biplob Kumar, and former DMP commissioner Habibur Rahman.

Another 200-250 unnamed people, including leaders and activists of the Awami League and its front organizations, were made accused in the case.

One Nasrin Begum filed the case with the court of Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Torikul Islam over the killing of Kobi Nazrul Govt College student Ikram Hossain Kawser and Shaheed Suhrawardi College student Omar Faruk.

The two students were allegedly bumped off in separate incidents by police, Awami League leaders, and activists as they were staging protests along with hundreds of others in front of Kobi Nazrul Govt College and Shaheed Suhrawardi College on July 19.

A fresh case was filed on Sunday against Hasina and 111 others on charge of killing a schoolboy on August 5, New Age staff correspondent in Rajshahi reported.

Fazer Ali, the father of Yasin Islam, who was burned to death inside NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure....
re-2 constituency former politician Shahfiqul Islam Shimul's residence on August 5, filed the case with the NATOre Sadar cop shoppe.

Beside Hasina, Shimul, NATOre district AL president Sirajul Islam, general secretary Shariful Islam Ramzan, joint general secretary Golam Mortuza Bablu, organising secretary Malek Sheikh, NATOre municipal AL president Syed Mostak Ali, general secretary Habibur Rahman, and NATOre municipality mayor Uma Chowdhury were named as accused in the case.

Hasina, 33 others sued for 'mass killing' at Hefazat rally

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A case was filed on Sunday against ~~the loathesome~~ Sheikh Hasina and 33 others on charges of mass-killing at the rally of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh in Motijheel Shapla Chattar area on May 5, 2013.

Bangladesh Peoples Party chairman Babul Sardar Chakhari filed the case with Dhaka chief Metropolitan Magistrate court.

Metropolitan Magistrate Zaki-al Farabi accepted the case and directed the officer-in-charge of Motijheel cop shoppe to investigate the matter and submit a report to the court.

The other accused include former home minister Asaduzzaman Khan, former prime minister's adviser Salman F Rahman, former PM's defense adviser Tarique Ahmed Siddiqui, former Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Fazle Noor Taposh, former politicians Rashed Khan Menon and Hasanul Haque Inu, Awami League joint secretary general Mahbubul Alam Hanif, former Textiles minister Jahangir Kabir Nanak, former Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed and IGP Hasan Mahabub Khandkar, former RAB chief AKM Shahidul Haque, former NSI chief Ziaul Ahsan, former police DC of Motijheel Division Biplab Kumar Sarker, former Motijheel Police Station OC Omar Faruk, former ward councilor Munsur Ahmed, the then Motijheel Chhatra League
... the student wing of the Bangla Awami League ...
president Mahabubul Haque Hiron, Awami League leader Mumtaz Parveen, former Motijheel OC Farman Ali, National People's Party chairman Salahuddin Salu, former Motijheel DC Nazmul Alam, retired Director of Hamdard Group Major Iqbal.

According to the case statement, the leaders and activists of Hefazat-e Islam Bangladesh gathered at the Motijheel Shapla Chattar on May 5, 2013, to press 13-point demand, protesting at the defamation of Islam and Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!) by some bloggers.

Within the next 24 hour from 11:00pm on the day, the police and army members, in connivance with the accused, massacred the rally, it said.

They also took away the bodies in some city-corporation vehicles and buried them secretly at unknown locations, said the statement.

It also mentioned that during the massacre, many madrassah students were murdered and kidnapped.

When victims' parents went to the cop shoppes to file cases or General Diary, the authorities did not take any case in this regard.

On the fateful night, government forces swooped on thousands of members of Hefajat-e-Islam Bangladesh, the Qawmi madrassah-based organization, at Shapla Chattar.

Hefazat demanded stronger Islamic policies, including stringent punishment for ‘atheist bloggers.'

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India-Pakistan

Victim families await justice as 2009 Ashura blast case file gathers dust

2022-08-10

[DAWN] Senior journalist and 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...
bureau chief of Geo News Faheem Siddiqui is busy in planning for the coverage of the religious events of Ashura in the city. However,
we can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by...
the activity every year reminds him of the painful events of 2009 Muharram he would never want to repeat in his life as a father, but has to go through as a newsman.

"Obviously, it causes pain. I lost my first child on this day. I lost my niece too," says Mr Siddiqui referring to the Ashura kaboom in which more than 45 people were killed on M.A. Jinnah Road on December 28, 2009. Mr Siddiqui’s six-year-old son, Bazil Ahmed Siddiqui, and 13-year-old niece, Anzalna Hanif, were among those killed in the attack.

"We remained issueless for five years after the martyrdom of our son," the 49-year-old tells Dawn in a gagged voice. Then, Allah, the Almighty, blessed us with three kids, all of them are boys," he says. "But, the pain for losing our firstborn still haunts us. If Bazil were alive, he would have been 19 today," adds the father, helplessly.

Mr Siddiqui is among dozens of families of the victims of the tragic incident that shook the nation in general. And they are all awaiting justice for the past 13 years, as the country’s security establishment fails to re-arrest the three Jundullah forces of Evil allegedly involved in the bombing, who had beat feet from the custody of the police days after their arrest.

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India-Pakistan

Decision on DJ Butt tax notice on Aug 3

2015-07-30

[DAWN] The Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Revenue Authority (PRA) has served notice on DJ Butt for the recovery of Rs17 million tax on the basis of his claim he had made in a suit filed against 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).
Set the Pak IRS on him, did they? Wonder how much Lois Lerner earned in consulting fees?
PRA Chairman Dr Raheel Ahmed Siddiqui said that DJ Butt had received over Rs50 million from the PTI while he had filed a suit for the recovery of remaining amount of Rs60 million.

He said the PRA had issued a notice to DJ Butt to pay a tax on the total amount of about Rs110 million at the rate of 16 per cent, which came to about Rs17 million.

Dr Siddiqui clarified that the PRA had nothing to do with a sum of Rs2.5 million Mr Butt had received after having a compromise with the PTI.

He said the hearing of DJ Butt's case before the PRA was fixed for Aug 3 when a final decision would be announced.

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India-Pakistan

Former JI chief's daughter bags CII seat

2015-03-10

[DAWN] After a wait of 19 months, the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) got its lone woman member, and its minimum mandated strength of nine, on Monday when the government nominated Dr Samia Raheel Qazi to the seat for three years.

Dr Qazi fills the seat that fell vacant with the death of her predecessor Dr Farida Ahmed Siddiqui in August 2013. Her late father Qazi Hussain Ahmed
...the absolutely humorless, xenophobic former head of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. He was also head of the MMA, a coalition of religious parties formed after 2001 that eventually collapsed under the weight of the holy egos involved. Qazi was the patron of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar during the Afghan mujaheddin's war against the Soviets. His sermons are described as fiery, which means they rely heavily on gospel and not at all on logic. Qazi once recommended drinking camel pee for good health, but that was before his kidneys went...
was amir of Jamaat and she herself was a member of the National Assembly elected in 2007.

Her predecessor was the sister of late Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani, leader of Jamaat Ulema Pakistain.

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India-Pakistan

Captured Al Qaeda: Foreign Fighters 'Converging' in Pakistan

2011-05-28

A Moroccan al Qaeda operative captured in Afghanistan told coalition forces earlier this month that foreign fighters were "converging" in Pakistan in hopes of carrying out attacks across the border in Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force said late Monday.

The unnamed captive, who is described as a "Germany-based Moroccan al Qaeda foreign fighter facilitator,"
Whaaat? Sounds like a 'kinetic military action'!
was captured by coalition and Afghan forces on May 8 in southeast Afghanistan.

"After his capture the facilitator provided details about his personal travel from Germany," a statement from the ISAF said. "He also observed foreigners from many countries converging in Pakistan to conduct attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan."

In the same operation in Afghanistan in which the facilitator was captured, the ISAF said they recovered passports and identification cards from France, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia among 10 killed insurgents.
The Pak passports were, of course, the best...
The U.S. military estimates there are approximately 100 al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan at any moment, most from Arab countries and Pakistan, although European fighters have been spotted in increasing numbers in recent years.
They're not really 'European'...
Almost all of them enter through the Pakistani tribal areas, according to U.S., Afghan, and Pakistani officials.

"The Afghanistan-Pakistan region seems to be a revolving door for extremists," said an April 2011 report from the Army. "The foreign fighter flow in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region seems to flow strongly both in and out of the region."
To and from the Peshawar Hilton...
Two days after the facilitator's capture, ISAF U.S. Maj. Gen. John Campbell told reporters the ISAF had received reports of an influx of foreign fighters joining al Qaeda's cause in Afghanistan following the Navy SEAL raid that killed the terror group's leader, Osama bin Laden, on May 2. However, he said his men had yet to encounter them.
If his men had they would have killed them...
"I have not seen a large number of foreign fighters come through since bin Laden's death," Campbell said. "I will tell you, over the course of the year -- if I was to put a guesstimate on the percentage -- it's really around 80 percent are from Afghanistan, and it's probably 15 [percent] to 20 percent foreign fighters... I don't think that's gone up or gone down here over the last several months."

The captured Moroccan is also apparently providing intelligence about how foreign fighters move into Afghanistan from around the world and described his own journey to the front lines from Germany. The ISAF said it hoped that information will "support targeting the network of facilitators who bring global terrorism to bear on coalition forces and civilians in Afghanistan."

Though the ISAF declined to provide details on the Moroccan's personal travels, it did say that the facilitator said that when his travel was delayed in Iran, he was approached and asked to become a suicide bomber.

"However, he declined because of his goal to take part in the Global Jihad," the ISAF statement said.

The facilitator is not the first to successfully travel from Germany to the Middle East in hopes of joining the jihad there. In the fall of 2010, U.S. forces captured German national Ahmed Siddiqui who described a "multi-city" terror plot against Europe. Siddiqui said the plan had been personally blessed by bin Laden.

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India-Pakistan

8 Harkat men held, explosives and arms seized

2008-11-04

The Crime Investigation Department (CID) arrested eight persons belonging to Harkatul Mujahideen, a banned religious organisation, Daily Times learnt on Monday.

They were arrested between October 20 and 22 in raids in various parts of Karachi, before they could reportedly carry out planned terrorist activities in the city. Sources said that the arrested men were Asad Ahmed, Ali Ahmed Siddiqui, Asim Farman, Imran Yousuf, Tuaqeer, Munir Nasir, Noorul Hassan and Rafaqat Hussain.

They said the men were handed over to the Sohrab Goth Supervisory Police Officer (SPO) Irfan Bahadur on November 1.

Police said the men were arrested from an area near Al-Asif Square, Sohrab Goth and claimed to have recovered around eight kilogramme of explosives and weapons from their possession. According to initial interrogation, the arrested men were reportedly trained in Afghanistan and were plotting terrorist activities in Karachi.

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India-Pakistan

Sindh, Punjab Police search for 'explosive' trucks

2008-03-27

The Sindh and Punjab police are searching for four trucks, which have been reportedly sent to different areas of the country from the Pakistan-Iran border, loaded with weapons and explosives. The Sindh interior ministry has also issued a security alert.

Confirming the news, Karachi Police Chief Niaz Ahmed Siddiqui said, We have received reports like this from intelligence and the interior ministry before as well.

We were informed that these trucks were in a compound situated on Sedhe Village Road, Lyari. But we didnt find anything there. Security has, however, been beefed up at the entrance and exit points of the city.

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India-Pakistan

Strike against blasphemous cartoons: Nine vehicles torched, over six injured in Karachi

2008-03-15

Nine vehicles were torched and over half-a-dozen people reportedly sustained bullet wounds during the strike called by the Sunni Tehreek (ST) for Friday. Meanwhile, the police have reportedly taken over a dozen ST workers in custody since Thursday night and the ST has claimed that the arrests were because its workers were just trying to create awareness among people by distributing leaflets, etc.

Nearly 15 people, including two ST workers, sustained bullet injuries because of aerial firing in separate parts of the city. The injured include Saleem, 30, (New Karachi), Shahrukh Khan, 18, (Shafiq Mor), Yawer, 42, (Korangi), Sajjad, 10, (Soldier Bazaar), Kauser Khan (Gulistan-e-Johar), Ghulam Hussain (Risala), Manzur (Saeedabad), Sakina and Mateen (Orangi Town), Atiq (Ranchore Lane), Ali Gohar, Yousuf, an unidentified person (North Karachi) and two ST workers, Saqib and Muslim Qadri, from Shah Faisal Colony and Taimoria respectively.

Meanwhile, nine vehicles and one café were reportedly burnt in different parts of the city.

We have taken 11 ST workers in custody since Thursday night, said Karachi Police Chief Niaz Ahmed Siddiqui. Seven of them were taken into custody as they fled after setting fire to two vehicles in Landhi Town, while four others were taken into custody from Saddar Town as they forcefully closed shops early Friday morning. Cases will be registered against them for taking the law into their own hands.

Siddiqui said that strict security measures were taken by law enforcers because of which the whole day passed relatively peacefully and without any major incidents. Just four vehicles were burnt Friday, two of them at Yousuf Plaza and two at Sukhan, said Siddiqui.

He further said that nearly seven people were reported hurt and it is difficult to judge in which incidents they had sustained bullet injuries.

However, ST central leader Shahid Ghouri, while taking to Daily Times, denied the police chiefs accusations and said that the ST did not cause any disturbance in the city as it was a strike against those who are hurting the Muslims. He added that it was the responsibility of all Muslims to make the strike successful.

Nearly 20 ST workers were taken into custody from different parts of the city, claimed Ghouri.

Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Jamat Ahl-e-Sunnat, Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP), Tanzeem-ul-Madaaris Ahl-e-Sunnat Pakistan (TMASP), traders, transporters and others groups supported the strike.

Major markets including Jamma Cloth, Bolton, Motan Das, Electronic, Empress, Ranchor Line, Garden, Automobile, Mobile Phone Market on Abdullah Haroon Road, Rainbow Centre, Zaib-un-Nissa Street and others remained closed. The majority of the petrol pumps and CNG stations were also closed while their administration set-up tents around the property to ensure safekeeping.

Public transport also worked at a short frequency because of which attendance at public and private schools, colleges and offices remained low. Police and rangers mobiles patrolled the streets to keep the law and order situation under control.

To protest the blasphemous publications, rallies and demonstrations were organized in different parts of the city after the Friday prayers. JI Karachi organized a demonstration outside Masjid Nauman at Lasbela Chawk. JI Karachi Ameer Muhammad Hussain Mehanti demanded the Pakistani government protest Denmark on a governmental level, oust the Dutch and Danish ambassadors from Pakistan and announce a break-up of diplomatic and trade relations with both Denmark and Holland.

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India-Pakistan

'Bombers' take families hostage to drive into police

2008-02-04

Men claiming to be terrorists with suicide jackets are taking families in cars hostage, and asking them to drive towards clusters of police or Rangers, according to two reports received by Daily Times.

According to one authenticated report, a couple with their one-year-old baby were going shopping when a man got into the backseat. He was wearing a shawl that he pulled away to reveal a suicide jacket.

Drive to wherever you see five to six policemen standing around, he said. Then Im going to blow us all up and even you will be Shaheed [martyred] like me. They drove around for three hours after which the man had the couple drop him off at Native Jetty Bridge.

"Never mind."

In the second case, on Friday, a couple with two children were driving past the Saudi Arabian Embassy when a man got in at a traffic signal. Astaghfir Allah! I dont want your watch or money; I just want you to hit the first Rangers mobile unit you see, the man said when the husband offered his watch and money. The man later disembarked at the same area. Police chief Niaz Ahmed Siddiqui said that no one had registered an FIR yet. We have received reports that this is happening, he said.

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India-Pakistan

Five suspected militants arrested

2008-01-23

Law-enforcement agencies rounded up five suspected militants in several raids on Tuesday. A well-placed source told Daily Times that law-enforcement personnel took Jahangir Bhatti, a suspected militant who had just arrived from Saudi Arabia, into custody at the Karachi International Airport and moved him to an undisclosed location.

The source said that Yousuf Mehsud, a close aide of Baitullah Mehsud arrested on Monday in Sohrab Goth Police Station precincts provided the information about Bhattitis arrival, on which law enforcers arrested him from the airport. The personnel also raided the house of Aitzaz Shah in the Pirabad area and arrested his father Zahir Shah and uncle Zohaib Shah, the source added.

They later raided a madrassa at Old Golimar, Pak Colony area where Aitzaz Shah used to study before leaving for Afghanistan, and arrested two suspected militants. However, when contacted, Capital City Police Chief Niaz Ahmed Siddiqui said he did not know about the raids and arrests, saying it was possible that some other agencies might have conducted the operation. When contacted, Senior Superintendent of Police (Crime Investigation Department) Raja Ummar Khattab refused to comment.

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Afghanistan/South Asia

1 dead in Karachi mosque attack

2004-11-04

A gunman killed one worshipper and wounded two clerics when he opened fire inside a mosque in the city of Karachi yesterday. The attack occurred at the Mohammedi Mosque in a low-income neighborhood in the north of the city. Police said it was unclear whether the attack was part of sectarian violence or the result of a personal enmity. City police chief Fayyaz Leghari said the attack was apparently aimed at the deputy prayer leader of the mosque, Sajid Zaman, who was critically wounded. "The gunman fired four to five bullets from a pistol, targeting the deputy prayer leader," he told Reuters. "But a stray bullet killed a worshipper." The prayer leader of the mosque, Mufti Farooq Ahmed Siddiqui, was also wounded in the leg.

Leghari said the attack could have been the result of a personal enmity rather than a sectarian rivalry. "Usually automatic weapons are used in terror attacks, but in this case a pistol was used," he said. Police said the gunman escaped with an accomplice who waited outside the mosque with a motorcycle. There were 250 worshippers in the Karachi mosque at the time of the attack. "Someone started shooting during the prayers," said Siddiqui, the prayer leader who was wounded in the leg. "I only heard gunshots on my back ... then the people started running." Security has been stepped up at the places of worship across Pakistan due to fears of more attacks during Ramadan, which ends in mid-November. Analysts believe Al-Qaeda-linked groups have been behind some of the recent violence, aiming to stir up sectarian animosity and destabilize the administration of President Pervez Musharraf, a key ally in the US-led war on terror.

In the southwestern city of Quetta on Monday, security forces arrested two men, one of them an Iraqi suspected of links to Al-Qaeda, as they tried to purchase arms, intelligence officials said.

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