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Muhammad Hussain Mehnati

Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal

Afghanistan/South Asia

20050907

India-Pakistan

Ex-minister Babu Singh, who got funds from Pak-based terror organisations, chargesheeted

2022-09-25

[GreaterKashmir] The State Investigation Agency (SIA) Jammu of J&K Police Saturday filed a chargesheet against former minister Jatinder Singh alias Babu Singh for getting funds from Pakistain-based terrorist organizations.

A statement of the SIA issued here said that the chargesheet was filed against Muhammad Shareef Shah of Larnoo, Anantnag, and Muhammad Hussain Khateeb of Bhaderwah, Doda, presently living somewhere in Pakistain, in case FIR No 73/2022 of Police Station Gandhi Nagar, Jammu transferred to the SIA by the J&K Police Headquarters with the request to the court to file supplementary chargesheet soon.

The SIA statement said that Shah was arrested by Police in Jammu along with a terror fund of Rs 6.90 lakh meant for Singh and was intended to be used for the anti-national activities of Singh and his party ’Nature Mankind Friendly Global Party’.

What a friendly name — it sure makes me want to trust the people associated with it.

It said that Singh was in touch with the Lions of Islam of a proscribed terror organization Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) outfit and separatists of an unlawful association Jammu and 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....
Liberation Front (JKLF).

The statement said that these inimical entities had sent this terror fund from Pakistain through their associates for Singh’s party.

It said that the vision document of this party floated by accused Singh was to make J&K, PoK, and Gilgit Baltistan an independent country by making a condominium of Pakistain and India, for having joint control over currency, external affairs, and finance.

The statement said that in the investigation it was revealed that Singh was in contact with Khateeb over encrypted social media applications and had clandestinely visited Dubai for arranging funds.

It said that Shah was designated as secretary of this party that received these funds at Kashmir through an unknown person and travelled to Jammu to handover these funds to Singh and that this fund was arranged by Khateeb, HM terrorist operating from Pakistain, but Shah was arrested before he could hand over this terror fund to Singh.

The statement said that the investigation had established that Singh was conducting online meetings and interviews with an adversary and in his online address he had compared a terrorist, Maqbool Bhat with Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, and Sukhdev and termed Bhat a "freedom fighter and martyr of J&K, who laid down his life for the independence of J&K".

It said that in one such online interview, Singh about the abrogation of Article 370 challenged and threatened the Government of India to desist from further breaking J&K.

The statement said that the association of Singh with Khateeb and other cadres of HM operating from Pakistain had also been established in the investigation.

It said that anti-national and highly-inflammatory content had been recovered by the SIA from Singh's mobile phone which establishes his intention to damage and threaten the unity, integrity, and illusory sovereignty of India.

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India-Pakistan

LHC acquits Christian couple who faced death penalty for blasphemy after 7-year on death row

2021-06-04

[DAILYTIMES.PK] The Lahore High Court has spared the life of a Christian couple — convicted and sentenced to death in April 2014 but imprisoned since 2013 for sharing ’blasphemous’ texts — in a short ruling, according to defence lawyer.

Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar had spent about seven years seeking mercy through courts while imprisoned on death row. Advocate Saif-ul-Malook, the defence lawyer, told Daily Times that the high court acquitted the couple on charges of sending ’blasphemous’ texts to a local holy man, ruling that the evidence against the couple appeared insufficient.

The two-member bench, comprising Justice Syed Shahbaz Ali Rizvi and Justice Tariq Saleem Sheikh, announced the short order in the open court. The blasphemy
...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
case was filed by Muhammad Hussain, a mosque leader in Gojra town, who believed that the couple had sent ’offensive text messages’ on his mobile and other Moslems. Through their lawyer, the couple pleaded their innocence, saying they were illiterate.

In April, the ~~Amnesia~~ Amnesty International issued a health alert for Shafqat Emmanuel, and reported that "his health is rapidly deteriorating, as his lower body is paralyzed and he needs help of prison guards for mobility." Advocate Saif-ul-Malook also confirmed that Shafqat Emmanuel has multiple bed sores due to unavailability of proper treatment.

EUROPEAN RESOLUTION
It is pertinent to mention here that the European Parliament adopted a resolution in April, calling for a review of the GSP Plus status granted to Pakistain in view of an ’alarming’ increase in the use of blasphemy-related accusations besides rising number of online and offline attacks on journalists and civil society organizations.

The resolution expressed particular concern regarding the case of Shafqat Emmanuel and Shagufta Kausar who were sentenced to death on blasphemy charges in 2014. "The evidence on which the couple were convicted can be considered deeply flawed," it said, adding that the couple had allegedly been in an argument with the accuser not long before the accusations were made.

WRONG CASES?
Talking to Daily Times, Special Representative to Prime Minister on Religious Affairs Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi said that not a single FIR had been wrongly registered in Pakistain for the last seven months in the blasphemy-related cases. "If someone believed a wrong case of blasphemy had been registered against him, he should consult the Muttahida Ulema Board," he said.

To a question, he said that the Islamic scholars can reverse registration of any wrong case after reviewing it thoroughly. He said that the government was committed to prevent misuse of blasphemy laws and protect everyone from becoming victims to personal grudges. To another question, he said that no individual or group would be allowed to create chaos in Pakistain.

Since 2014, the couple had been tossed in the clink
Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit!
separately with Shafqat Emmanuel in Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
and Shagufta Kausar in Multan
Multan

...Home of the Multan Sultans...
’s Women Prison — the only jail for females in Punjab. A report suggested that Shagufta Kausar worked as a caretaker in a Christian school. The couple has four children, who had been left traumatize, according to the defence lawyer.

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India-Pakistan

Major, two sepoys martyred in ambush

2018-11-13

[DAWN] An army officer and two sepoys were martyred when turbans ambushed a military convoy in Rogha Bahadar village of the Razmak area of North

Wazoo tribal district on Monday.

A fourth security man suffered injuries in the incident.

An Inter-Services Public Relations statement identified the deaders as Major Irfan and sepoys Mudasir and Muhammad Hussain. The injured soldier was identified as Irfan.

According to the statement, the injured and the bodies were airlifted to the military hospital Bannu. No one has grabbed credit for the ambush.

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India-Pakistan

Man kills three kids before suicide

2018-05-17

[DAWN] SHEIKHUPURA: A man hacked his three children to death and did away with himself in a fit of frustration over his wife’s second marriage at Kotla Kahloun in Nankana Sahib on Tuesday.
The second marriage would be bigamous, natch...
The wife of Sarfraz Mahmood, a factory worker, contracted second marriage and he along with police tried to trace the woman but in vain.

He hacked his 10-year-old son Muhammad Hussain and daughters Zainab, 7, and Shazia, 3, to death after detaining them in a room. Later, he also did away with himself using the same weapon.

The Saddar police reached the spot when informed about the incident by neighbours and started investigation.

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India-Pakistan

ATC sentences five to death over burning alive Christian couple in Kot Radha Kishan in 2014

2016-11-24

[DAWN] An Anti-Terrorism Court on Wednesday sentenced five men to death on two counts for their involvement in the burning alive of a Christian couple in Kot Radha Kishan in 2014.

ATC-I Judge Chaudhry Muhammad Azam imposed a fine of Rs200,000 on the five men identified as Mehdi Khan, Riaz Kambo, Irfan Shakoor, Muhammad Hanif, and Hafiz Ishtiaq ─ a local prayer leader ─ for their involvement in the lynching.

Eight others have also been charged with involvement in the lynching and sentenced to two years each in prison.

The eight men were identified as Muhammad Hussain, Noorul Hasan, Muhammad Arsalan, Muhammad Haris, Muhammad Muneer, Muhammad Ramazan, Irfan and Hafiz Shahid.

A challan
... list of charges ...
submitted in court claimed the five men handed the death penalty gathered a large mob of hundreds by making announcements over a mosque loudspeaker and incited them to violence with incendiary speech.

Kot Radha Kishan lynching
A mob of around 400 people lynched Shahzad and Shama for their alleged role in desecrating the Holy Koran in November 2014. Both husband and wife were brick kiln workers from Chak-59 of Kot Radha Kishan, a town in Kasur district. The woman, mother of three, was pregnant.

Police and witnesses told Dawn in Nov 2014 that announcements had been made from mosques on Tuesday asking villagers to gather at the Yousaf brick kiln where 25-year-old Shama and her husband Shahzad Masih worked as bonded labourers.

Over 1,000 charged people from three villages took out the couple from a room (where they had taken shelter) after tearing apart its roof.

The mob tortured the couple before putting them into the kiln’s furnace.

The mob held hostage five coppers who tried to rescue the couple. The villagers also manhandled some media personnel and snatched their cameras.

Police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against 660 villagers, including 60 who were nominated in a First Information Report lodged on the complaint of Sub-Inspector Muhammad Ali of Chowki Factory Area.

The FIR said the mob had thrashed the couple and dragged them to a kiln where Mohammad Yousaf Gujar, the kiln owner, and his accountants Shakeel and Afzal, allegedly removed a lid from one of the openings of the furnace and threw the couple into it.

"Both Shama and Shahzad were reduced to ashes in no time," the FIR stated.

'No one listened to her'
Bilqees, a local Moslem resident, recounted the horrific incident to Dawn in 2014.

She said that Shama, known in the village as Saima, married Shahzad Masih about 10 years ago. They had three children aged between two and seven. She said Shama was pregnant at the time of the incident.

Nazir Masih, father-in-law of Shama, was a faith healer and died a few weeks ago. After his death, Shama had burnt some of his belongings, including papers. She added that Shama was illiterate.

Bilqees said a vendor who had visited the brick kiln found the pages of the Holy Koran and showed them to the villagers.

Later on Tuesday morning, hundreds of villagers gathered at the kiln and burnt the couple alive without even listening to Shama.

"She was screaming that she was unaware of what the papers were about, but no one listened to her," Bilqees said.

International uproar
The lynching of Shama and Shehzad caused international uproar. In 2014, A top Vatican official described the lynching of the couple as a humiliation for all of humanity.

Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, the chair of the Roman Catholic church's council for interfaith dialogue, had said he was profoundly shocked by accounts of the horrific death of Shehzad and Shama.

"How can we remain impassive before such crimes, justified in the name of religion?," Tauran had earlier said on Vatican Radio, urging Moslem leaders in Pakistain to vigorously condemn the killings.

"It is all of humanity that is humiliated," he had said, adding: "The first victims are in fact Moslems because these misdeeds give an image of Islam that is terrible."

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India-Pakistan

Pakistani Christian charged with blasphemy over Mecca snap

2016-09-22

[AlAhram] A Pak Christian teen has been charged with blasphemy over a derogatory picture of Islam's holiest place, police said Tuesday.

Nabeel Chohan was placed in durance vile
Drop the rosco, Muggsy, or you're one with the ages!
for liking and sharing on social media a disparaging photograph of the Kaaba, the building in Mecca, Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, that Moslems turn and pray to five times a day.

Chohan, who is 18 and from 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....
province, also kept the picture on his phone, police said.

A Moslem friend of Chohan's informed police after seeing the Facebook post on September 16 and the teen was arrested after his friend filed the blasphemy case, police official Shahbaz Ahmed said.

"A case of hurting religious sentiments of Moslems and desecrating the religious place has been lodged," Ahmed told AFP.

Muhammad Hussain, the investigating police officer, confirmed the arrest and told AFP Chohan was in a police cell.

Blasphemy is a hugely sensitive issue in conservative Moslem Pakistain, where even unproven allegations can provoke beatings and mob violence. It has extremely strict laws against blasphemy -- including the death penalty for insulting the Prophet Mohammed -- and rights campaigners say they are often used to settle personal disputes in a country where 97 percent of the population is Moslem.

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India-Pakistan

Baloch leaders booked for 'support' of Modi's comments: police

2016-08-23

[DAWN] Five cases were registered against separatist Baloch leaders Brahamdagh Bugti, Harbiyar Marri and Banuk Karima Baloch for allegedly supporting Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's statements on 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...
, police said.

The cases were registered on the complaints of petitioners Munir Ahmed, Maulana Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Hussain, Ghulam Yaseen Jatak and Muhammad Rahim at five cop shoppes in Balochistan's Khuzdar area.

The Baloch leaders were booked under sections 120, 121, 123 and 353 of the Pakistain Penal Code. The sections refer to "concealing design to commit offence punishable with imprisonment", "waging or attempting to wage war or abetting waging of war against Pakistain", "concealing with intent to facilitate design to wage war", and "assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty".

Acting District Police Officer Khuzdar Muhammad Ashraf Jatak said the applicants claimed Bugti, Marri and Baloch had 'supported' Modi's Aug 15 speech.

The Indian premier in a speech on India's independence day ─ in what some analysts believe is a move to divert attention away from the Kashmire issue ─ said that the people of Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmire 'thanked him a lot in the past few days'.

Petitioner Munir Ahmed also alleged that the Baloch leaders had asked the Indian premier to commit aggression against Pakistain.

Modi's controversial statement sparked protests across Balochistan, with large numbers of rustics taking to the streets in protest in Dera Bugti, Khuzdar, Quetta, Chaman and other parts of the province.

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India-Pakistan

Dacoits’ gang busted, vehicles, illicit weapons seized

2016-02-07

ISLAMABAD: Capital city police have arrested 15 outlaws including six dacoits and recovered a car, two motorbikes and a weapon from their possession, a police spokesman said.

According to reports, SSP Sajid Kiani assigned the task to SP of the Industrial-Area Muhammad Amir Niazi to ensure arrest of culprits involved in various reported incidents of dacoities. He constituted a special team including Sabzi Mandi SHO Inspector Mehboob Ahmed, Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASIs) Ali Muhammad and Adeel Shokat and others that succeeded to arrest six dacoits. The nabbed persons have been identified as Said Ghani, Ishamil Khan, Usman Ghani, Hazrat Bilal, Younas and adrees and recovered three 30-bore pistols along with ammunition and two motorbikes were also recovered from their possession. Police team also arrested accused Muslim Khan and recovered one 30-bore illegal pistol along with ammunition from his possession.

Meanwhile, Shehzad Town police recovered one 30-bore illicit pistol along with ammunition from the possession of arrested accused Hassnain. Koral police recovered one 30-bore illegal pistol along with ammunition from the possession of arrested accused Nazkat.

Lohibher police arrested three persons Muhammad Hussain, Muhammad Ahsan, Tahir Mehmood involved in illegal cylinder gas filling.

ACLC police recovered a tampered car from the possession of accused Muhammad Ayub and Ghulam Rabbani. Cases have been registered against these nabbed persons and further investigation is underway from them. Islamabad’s SSP Sajid Kiani has appreciated this overall performance and directed all the SHOs to ensure high vigilance and strict patrolling in their respective areas to ensure strict safety and security measures in the capital city.

On a separate note, five suspected robbers have been arrested within the Naseerabad police jurisdiction.

On a tip-off, police raided a venue in Naseerabad and rounded up five suspected robbers identified as Mohammad Shafiq, Mohsin Ali, Mohammad Yousuf, Rafaqat Ali and Robert Masih.

Police also claimed to have recovered five pistols and 18 rounds from the possession of suspects. Police further said that they were formulating a plan to strike at a place before their terror bid was foiled. Police have registered a case and started investigation.

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Home Front: WoT

Mosque Obama Visited Under FBI Surveillance Starting in 2010

2016-02-04

[MEDIAITE] Today, President Barack Obama
We're gonna punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends who stand with us on issues that are important to us...
made the first appearance at a U.S. mosque in his seven-year presidency. He and the Council on American-Islamic Relations
... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ...
selected the Islamic Society of Baltimore for the big event. He made some valid points and included some touching moments, but detractors are continuing to rail against his choice of mosques.

In 2010, the Islamic Society of Baltimore was placed under FBI surveillance following the arrest of one of its members. The member had been planning to bomb an Army recruiting center near the mosque in Catonsville.

According to Investor's Business Daily, the would-be attacker was 25-year-old convert Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain. Hussain had assured other worshipers that he had "brothers" who could supply him with the necessary bomb-making materials. His plans to combat the Army came from his interpretation of the Koran's mandate to "fight those who fight you."

An undercover FBI agent was placed in the mosque, but leaders within the community objected to being monitored. Another agent was dispatched to take questions and concerns from the mosque's leadership, who felt what the FBI was doing was entrapment.

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India-Pakistan

Two Hazara men killed in sectarian attack

2015-11-09

[DAWN] QUETTA: Two men belonging to the Hazara Shia community were rubbed out near Spiny Road here on Saturday evening.

According to police, Izatullah and Muhammad Hussain were going to Hazara Town from the city when assailants on a cycle of violence shot up their car.

One of the victims was struck down in his prime and the other was critically injured. He was taken to the Civil Hospital where he succumbed to injuries.

"It was a sectarian assassination," a police officer said, adding that an investigation had been launched.

It was the fourth such incident in the city in as many days.

AFP adds: Senior police official Abdul Waheed Khattak confirmed the incident and said it mirrored similar shootings earlier this week. "Two Hazara brothers were fired at on Friday near the same locality of Hazara town and one of them was killed while another was maimed.

"Likewise another member of the community was killed on Wednesday when he arrived at his auto workshop," Mr Khattak said.

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India-Pakistan

Badaber attack: FIR registered against unknown suspects

2015-09-20

[DAWN] The Counter-Terrorism Department Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
on Saturday registered a First Information Report (FIR) against unknown suspects on terror charges in relation to Friday's deadly attack on an Air Force camp in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), 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 Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
's Badaber area.

The Darra Adamkhel chapter of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) earlier grabbed credit for the attack.

Sources told DawnNews that on the complaint of camp commandant Flight Lieutenant Muhammad Hussain, the FIR was registered against unidentified suspects. Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and other terrorism-related charges were framed against the suspects in the FIR, they said.

In wake of the brazen assault, search and strike operations were initiated in Badaber and Matani areas during which police incarcerated
Please don't kill me!
at least 28 suspects, including 8 Afghan nationals.

Ten educational institutes, including four colleges, which are located in areas adjacent to the camp stormed by gunnies were closed on Saturday owing to security reasons. Security sources said the institutions will remain closed till the end of Eidul Azha holidays.

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India-Pakistan

Man throws acid on estranged wife, in-laws

2014-02-11

[DAWN] Four members of a family suffered acid burns when a man targeted his estranged wife and his in-laws in a locality of Ravi Road on Sunday.

The suspect, who allegedly attacked his wife and in-laws following a matrimonial dispute, expeditiously departed at a goodly pace.

The chief minister, taking notice of yet another incident of acid throwing, ordered police to take stern action against the suspect.

Earlier, two motorcyclists had thrown acid on a private university's lecturer at her doorstep near College Road, Township, in the last week of January.

Police have yet to arrest the main suspect who is said to be a former class-fellow of the victim. She was going to be married soon.

About the Sunday's incident, Ravi Road circle DSP Atif Hayyat said preliminary investigations showed the suspect, Nasir, threw acid on his wife and a minor child during a visit to his in-laws in Shamaspura.

The suspect's brother-in-law and his wife, who were present there, also came under the attack.

The DSP said Nasir apparently resorted to acid attack on refusal of his estranged wife to return to his house.

He said Sakina, her one-year-old son Ibrahim, her brother Shaukat Ali and Ali's wife Rasheeda suffered acid burns and were immediately transported to Mayo Hospital where they were said to be stable.

Sabzadi Mandi police check post in-charge Muhammad Hussain Bhati said Nasir was a drug addict and his wife had filed a divorce suit in a court a few days ago.

He said Nasir, a father of three, would allegedly force his wife to earn money through prostitution. Hearing of the divorce case was on February 16, he added.

He said Sakina suffered severe burns but was out of danger. The police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else under hurt and terrorism charges against the runaway suspect and were conducting raids for his arrest.

Advisor to the chief minister on health Khawaja Salman Rafique and PML-N MPA Ghazali Saleem Butt inquired after the injured at the hospital.

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