Taliban terrorist (official of Jamaat-e-Islami) ‘successfully’ acquitted by a military court in Pakistan
Nadeem Ahmed Shah reaches home as military court acquits him from all accusations
RAWALPINDI, (SANA): A military court acquitted Nadeem Ahmad Shah advocate from all the accusations after which he reached home here on Saturday.
President of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) political committee Nadeem Ahmad advocate was missing since April 30, 2009 when he went out along with his friend Shahid Bashir who was an officer of a sensitive agency.
Naddem was welcomed by JI and Shabab-e-Milli leaders including Shams-ur-Rehman Swati, Sadiq Hassan, Haji Tahir Khan Aziz Hamid Rizwan Ahmad and other activists and lawyers. (Source: Sana)
Nadeem Shah and his two associates were arrested in December 2009 on the charges of giving sensitive national security details to would be suicide bombers. Forced by international pressure, the Pakistan Army agreed to the commencement of (a sham) Court Martial trial of Nadeem Shah, which has ended in an acquittal (a logical outcome of the ISI-Good Taliban alliance).
The episode also shows how Jamat e Islami is not only helping suicide bombers and the people who are against the state of Pakistan but is also responsible for the incessant killings of innocent men, women and children in suicide attacks.
Here is a relevant news report by BBC Urdu:
کورٹ مارشل: ندیم احمد شاہ بری
پاکستان کی ایک فوجی عدالت نے راولپنڈی کے وکیل ندیم احمد شاہ کو فوج کی خفیہ معلومات تک رسائی کی کوشش، بعض فوجی تنصیبات پر حملے اور کالعدم تنظیم کے ساتھ روابط کے الزامات سے بری کر دیا ہے۔
ندیم احمد شاہ فضائیہ کے سابق پائلیٹ ہیں اور گزشتہ کئی برس سے وہ وکالت کے پیشے سے وابستہ تھے
ندیم احمد شاہ ایڈووکیٹ کے ساتھ اسی نوعیت کے الزامات کا سامنا کرنے والے دیگر تین ملزمان، جن میں سے دو بری فوج کے اعلیٰ افسر ہیں کے بارے میں ابھی فیصلہ نہیں کیا گیا ہے۔
ندیم ایڈووکیٹ کے بھائی رضا شاہ نے بی بی سی کو ٹیلی فون پر بتایا کہ کوٹلی کی فوجی عدالت سے رہائی پانے کے بعد ان کے بھائی گھر پہنچ چکے ہیں۔
رضا شاہ نے کہا کہ ان کے بھائی میڈیا سے بات نہیں کرنا چاہتے۔
رضا شاہ نے کہا ’میرے بھائی کا بری ہونا ثابت کرتا ہے کہ ندیم شاہ نے ان میں سے کسی جرم کا ارتکاب نہیں کیا تھا۔‘
کلِک جاسوسی: تین افراد کا کورٹ مارشل
اسلام آباد میں ہمارے نامہ نگار آصف فاروقی کا کہنا ہے کہ ندیم احمد ایڈووکیٹ، انجینیئر اویس علی خان، کرنل شاہد بشیر اور ان کے ایک اور ساتھی کرنل پر کالعدم تنظیم حزب التحریر کا رکن ہونے، پاکستانی فضائیہ کے امریکہ کے زیراستعمال فوجی ہوائی اڈے شمشی ائر بیس پر حملے اور اس کے لیے خفیہ فوجی معلومات تک رسائی کی کوشش کے الزامات ہیں۔
ان چاروں افراد کو گزشتہ برس مئی کے مہینے میں راولپنڈی سے حراست میں لیا گیا تھا لیکن فوجی عدالت میں مقدمہ اس سال جنوری میں عمل میں لائی گئی تھی۔
ان چاروں افراد کو گزشتہ برس مئی کے مہینے میں راولپنڈی سے حراست میں لیا گیا تھا لیکن فوجی عدالت میں مقدمہ اس سال جنوری میں عمل میں لائی گئی تھی۔
الزامات ثابت ہونے کی صورت میں ملزمان کو فوجی قوانین کے تحت سزائے موت دی جا سکتی ہے۔
ندیم احمد شاہ راولپنڈی بار کے سرگرم کارکن ہیں۔ وہ فضائیہ کے سابق پائلیٹ ہیں اور گزشتہ کئی برس سے وہ وکالت کے پیشے سے وابستہ تھے۔ ان کے بھائی جماعت اسلامی کے رکن ہیں۔ ندیم احمد شاہ خود حافظ قرآن اور فقہ کے علم پر خاصا عبور رکھتے ہیں۔
فیصل آباد سے تعلق رکھنے والے لیفٹینٹ کرنل شاہد بشیر فوج کی انجینئرنگ کور کے باریش افسر ہیں۔ ان سے کالعدم تنظیم حزب التحریر سے ان کے روابط کے بارے میں بھی تفتیش کی جا رہی ہے۔
فیصل آباد سے تعلق رکھنے والے لیفٹینٹ کرنل شاہد بشیر فوج کی انجینئرنگ کور کے باریش افسر ہیں۔ ان سے کالعدم تنظیم حزب التحریر سے ان کے روابط کے بارے میں بھی تفتیش کی جا رہی ہے۔
اویس علی خان امریکہ سے میکنیکل انجینیئرنگ کی ڈگری لے کر چند برس قبل پاکستان لوٹے تھے۔ امریکہ سے گرین کارڈ ہولڈر اور امریکی شہری کے شوہر اویس علی خان نے سنہ دو ہزار دو میں پاکستان لوٹنے کے بعد پاکستانی فوج کے زیرانتظام اسلحہ اور گولہ بارود بنانے والے ادارے ائر ویپن کمپلیکس میں ملازمت اختیار کی تھی لیکن دو سال سے وہ ملازمت سے استعفیٰ دے کر اپنی فیکٹری چلا رہے تھے۔
اویس علی خان کی والدہ بیگم ثریا مسعود نے بی بی سی کو بتایا تھا کہ ان کے بیٹے کے کسی مذہبی یا سیاسی گروہ سے تعلق نہیں ہے اور نہ ہی وہ کبھی کسی قسم کی تخریبی یا سیاسی کارروائی میں شریک رہا ہے
Source: BBC
Compare this with The Nation newspaper in Pakistan which reports in 2003 that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was arrested in the home of the “area president of Jamaat-i-Islami Women Wing”. http://www.nation.com.pk/daily/mar-2003/2/main/top1.asp
Pak asked to explain Islamic party link to Al Qaeda suspects
(AFP)
3 March 2003
ISLAMABAD – The Pakistani government was being asked on Monday by politicians and the US to explain why several Al Qaeda suspects have been found in the homes of members of a powerful Islamic political party, following the weekend arrest of Al Qaeda master planner Khalid Shaikh Mohammed.
“The Pakistani government is under enormous pressure from the US to explain the pattern of raids suggesting links between Al Qadea and Jamaat-i-Islami (JI),” a senior security official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
Mohammed, credited with planning the September 11 terror attacks in the US, was nabbed in a pre-dawn raid Saturday in the northern city of Rawalpindi in a house owned by an activist of JI’s women’s wing, security officials said.
The woman’s son, Ahmed Qadoos, was also arrested in the raid, along with a Middle Eastern Al Qaeda suspect. She denied to AFP, however, that anyone other than her immediate family were in the home during the raid.
Ahmed’s uncle, a serving army major, was arrested Sunday in the north-west district of Kohat, officials said.
Saturday’s raid was the latest of several to net Al Qaeda suspects in JI homes, according to security officials.
On January 9 two Arab Al Qaeda suspects, identified as an Iraqi and a Jordanian-Palestinian, were arrested from a house in the southern city of Karachi belonging to another JI women’s wing activist.
Raids in the north-west frontier province city of Peshawar and the south-west city of Quetta also netted Al Qaeda suspects in JI member’s homes in recent months, according to security officials.
The ethnic-based Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) party, which jointly rules southern Sindh province and is a rival of Islamic parties like JI, demanded answers from the government on the apparent JI association.
“The arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed from the house of a women’s leader of Jamaat-i-Islami in Rawalpindi is proof of JI links with Al Qaeda,” MQM spokesman Mohammad Anwar said in a statement issued on Sunday night.
“The earlier arrest of two foreigners from another JI women’s leader in Karachi and now from another JI women’s leader’s home show that Al Qaeda and JI are in fact two sides of the same coin.”
JI women activists led several emotional protests in Karachi last September demanding morgue authorities hand over the bodies of Arab Al Qaeda suspects killed in a raid on the first anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
Raids on Karachi apartments on September 10 and 11 netted several Al Qaeda suspects including Ramzi bin al-Shaiba, while several others were killed in an ensuing shootout with police.
Mohammed was believed to have narrowly escaped one of those raids.
JI is one of the two chief parties of the six-party Islamist alliance, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) which holds almost one fifth of national assembly seats and rules one province.
The religious right grouping won massive vote gains at October polls after campaigning on an anti-US platform and vowing to enforce Islamic sharia law.
JI chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed has been one of the most vocal critics of the US-assisted manhunt for Al Qaeda fugitives in Pakistan.
He slammed Saturday’s arrest of Mohammed and two others including Qadoos, saying they were innocent of any crime.
“If they were involved in any criminal offense committed in Pakistan they should be tried here. They (US agents) are treating every Arab as Al Qaeda,” Ahmed said Sunday.
US intelligence agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have been assisting their Pakistani counterparts in tracking down and arresting Al Qaeda suspects.
“No American agency people should be allowed to conduct operations in Pakistan … Our government has sold our sovereignty,” Ahmed said, repeating his demand for an immediate end to the Al Qaeda hunt.
FBI prepares for more house raids
By Shahzad Malik
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has tightened its vigilance around leaders of the religious parties, including the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal members of National and Provincial Assemblies after the arrest of Ahmed Abdul Qadoos, the son of a local leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami woman wing, along with the 9/11 September mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, in Rawalpindi.
The FBI officials are keeping a close eye on the local leaders of the religious parties and defunct religious groups because of their possible links with Al Qaeda, well-known sources told Daily Times. More raids are also expected on the homes of the religious parties leaders in the wake of the latest developments that surfaced during an investigation into the arrests of Qadoos and a Somali national, the sources claimed.
The intelligence agencies have been ordered to assist the FBI officials who are reportedly roaming around the homes of the MMA MNAs in their constituencies and closely watching their movements, the sources added. The religious party leaders have given orders to their local leaders and supporters to stay clam under the present circumstances.
The Jamaat nazims of Rawalpindi and Islamabad and its adjoining area zones leaders are being followed by the secret agencies, the sources said. Meanwhile, clerics at the twin cities have asked two MMA MNAs from Rawlpindi and Islamabad, Hanif Abbasi and Mian Aslam, to visit Qadoos’s house to console with his family, but their request was turned down, according to a cleric who met with the MNAs.
From DAWN:
“Expert foresees more arrests
By Our Correspondent
PARIS, March 4: A French expert on Al Qaeda and an adviser on terrorism to the United Nations who was privy to the arrest of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, says that “it’s a major arrest that will lead to many more.”
The expert, Roland Jaccard, who last year published the world’s first biography of Osama bin Laden (In the Name of Ussama Bin Laden), says that he has been in touch with Pakistani authorities over the arrest of Khalid Mohammed and US officials who took part in the arrest.
He notes that “if the arrest will lead to others, it is not because Khalid Mohammed will talk, for I don’t expect for him to voluntarily reveal any new information about Al Qaeda, or about anything else for that matter, but because Pakistani authorities and US officials found in his possession a number of diskettes that are already beginning to ‘talk’ in their own right and providing interrogators with further leads that before long will translate into the arrest of other members of the Al Qaeda hierarchy.”
Already, he says, the diskettes “have given interrogators plans for other attacks in Pakistan, also elsewhere,” although he would not reveal where precisely”
http://forum.pakistanidefence.com/index.php?showtopic=7704&mode=linear
Jandullah, Jamaat and Jehadis
Ali Chishti January 27, 2010
how Jandullah became Al-Queda in Pakistan
Recently, the Karachi Police had found an organization named, “Jandullah” for the terror attack cum bombing on the Moharram Ashura procession killing more than forty-five people in Karachi. The name Jandullah was previously linked to a similar organization based in Baluchistan who had carried out
attacks in Iranian Baluchistan and another organization which had previously carried out attacks in Indonesia and was an off-shoot of Jamaat-e-Islami, Indonesian chapter.
However, the Karachi based Jandullah chapter is apparently a lot different from it’s Baluchi and Indonesian counterparts. The creation of the Karachi-based Jandullah (Army of God) was a prime example of al-Queda’s changing face in Pakistan. The group was founded originally by Jamaat-e-Islami’s student wings, Islami Jamiat e Talba’s Attar Rehman, a Karachi University student of Statistics who was arrested in June 2004 on the charge of masterminding, a series of terrorist attacks in Karachi, targeting security forces and government installations. The eldest son of a local businessman, he grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in Karachi and worked actively for the radical Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan.
Rehman’s journey to terrorism began after he in 1991 when he went to Afghanistan to receive military training at a jihadist camp setup by Jamaat-e-Islami linked, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen close to Afghan border. Rehman who was an active member of mainstream Islami Party, Jamaat-i-Islami and founder of Jandullah told his interrogators that he formed Jundullah after the arrest of top al-Queda operatives n March, 2003 including that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammad – the master mind of 9/11 who was caught from Rawalpindi, Pakistan from the residence of a Jamaat-e-Islami’s serving deputy mayor.
Amir Mir a journalist par excellence; an authority on Jehadi nexus, whose books had been banned in Pakistan wrote, “Jundullah was just another name for Lashkar-e-Jhangvi which had stuck up a strong working relationship with al-Queda.” He also reveals that “the other organization suspected of close operational ties with al Queda is basically Harkatul Muhahedin al-Aalamai an off-shoot of the Jamaat-e-Islami’s Jedahi Organization, Harkatul Mujadedin “.
It is however interesting to note that two of the al-Aalami militants including the al-Aalmai ameer, Mohammad Imran bombed the US consulate in Karachi; the bombing was similar to the bombing of Egyptian Embassy bombing in Islamabad which later, Osama Bin Laden’s deputy in his book “Knights under the Prophet’s Banner”. Ayman Zawahiri took full credit for the attack, noting that his first choice for the target was the U.S embassy there, but it was so strongly fortified that he judged it too hard to hit. Imran the ameer of al-Aalami claimed in court to be a member of Harkatul Mujahedin and said that al-Aalami was the product of the rangers and security denying the split between the Harkat.
Obviously the creation of such splinter groups had two reasons alone 1) to create a smoke-screen to take the heat away from the parent organizations like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Harkatul Mujahedin who are closely linked with certain rogue elements within in the state and members of Jamaat-e-Islami 2) to confuse the investigating agencies who were using the divide and rule to get rid of the powers of the jehadi factions gone rouge.
Jundullah was initially a well-knit cell comprising of some 20 militants, most of them in their twenties and thirties; educated from professional working classes. The group would take on doing the “unthinkable”; they planned on to assassinate, army’s top commander in Karachi, General Ahsan Saleem Hayat who later appointed by General Mushraff as hs second in-command of the Pakistan Army.
In June, 2004, Rehman a former student leader of IJT and now a founder of Jundullah attached the motorcade of the Corps Commander Karachi, General Ahsan Saleem Hayat who narrowly escaped but 11 people including eight soldier, were killed in the attack right in the centre of the city.
Later, Rehman did not show any sign of remorse when he was presented before a high-security anti terrorism court in Karachi. “I have not done anything wrong” he shouted as he emerged from the courtroom.
Later Jundullah would also attack on army, rangers, police stations and a car bombing outside the US-Pakistan cultural centre in Karachi. Among others who were arrested for their association with Jundullah was Akmal Waheed, a cardiologist and his brother Arshad Waheed an orthopedic surgeon. Both men were active members of Jamaat-e-Islami and were associated with Jamat-i-Islami’s Medical Wing, Pakistan Islamic Medical association; they provided active medical treatment and shelter to top Al-Queda fugitives and had been linked for treating Osama Bin Laden’s kidney’s too.
On 07/03/2004 the Karachi police arrested the brothers after the cell phone numbers of the two doctors were found in Ata-ur Rehman mobile phone memory. Dr. Akmal Waheed and Dr. Arshad Waheed were suspected of assisting wanted militants to escape from the authorities and providing medical treatment to three fugitives: Abu Massab, Gul Hasan and Qassam-al-Sani, who were wounded in the Gen. Hayat Attempt, without informing the police. Their arrest was capped in secrecy for a while, which caused the family to believe they were kidnapped for ransom. The arrest of the Waheed brothers was made public only on 07/13/2004.
The police also found out that the Wahed brothers also treated Shahzad Bajwa, alias Abdullah, the depute of Ata-ur Rehman, after he sustained injuries, on 03/19/2004, during an attack on a mobile van of Pakistan Rangers, at Shan/Bismillah Taqi Hospital in Karachi.
The Waheed brothers were sentenced on 03/14/2005 to 7 years imprisonment.
The police claimed that “The car recovered from the accused (Akmal and Arshad Waheed) is the one which was hired by earlier arrested Jundallah’s Amir in Karachi, Ata-ur-Rehman, which later on, had remained in their use.” Ata-ur-Rehman, the chief of Jundallah, had confessed that Dr Akmal Waheed and Dr Arshad Waheed had close links to him and were extending help by all means, the police spokesman added.
Dr. Arshad & Akmal Waheed were, eventually, acquitted. on 07/11/2006, in an appeal court. Following his acquittal Dr. Arshad Waheed shifted his activity to South Waziristan and was running a clinic in Wana, FATA region. Dr. Arshad Waheed was allegedly killed in a US missile attack, on 03/16/2008, in Wana, South Waziristan.
Jamaat-e-Islami, Pakistan apparently a close aide and ideological father of Jundallah and Harkat slammed everyone for arresting the brothers privately but a slap on their faces came when Al Qaeda’s media wing Al Sahab Media Foundation released the third part of a series of videos entitled “The Protectors of the Sanctuary.” This was also the first time Al-Queda had use URDU in there language instead of Arabic which was significant…
The 40-minute compilation video commemorates Dr. Arshad Waheed Shaheed, the Wana based kidney specialist who had links with all Jamaat-e-Islami, Jundallah and al Qaeda and who was killed in a U.S. missile attack in March 2008.
It is pretty much apparent that Al-Queda has successfully established working relationship with various jehadi and sectarian organizations originally made up by establishment to counter the Indian’s in Kashmir through proxy and helped prolonged our ill-thought off policy of Strategic Depth. It is also important to note; why a large number of Jamaat-e-Islami has linked up and sheltered Al-Queda members? It is also an established fact now that the GHQ attack master-mind was also a Jamaat-e-Islami member apart from the fugitives form the attacks on the Sri-Lankan team took refuge at Mansura, JI’s headquarters in Lahore. A connection which is often ignored: at times deliberately.
http://www.chowk.com/articles/16919