Lashkar-i-Jhangvi / Sipah-e-Sahaba’s connection traced to Ahmadi massacre in Lahore
In Picture: Rana Sanullah, PML-N’s Law Minister (Punjab Government) with the head of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan in an election rally
Lashkar-i-Jhangvi connection traced to Lahore attacks
By Abdul Manan
May 31, 2010
LAHORE: One of main suspects in the attacks on the Ahmadiyya community, Abdullah, has close ties with the banned organisation Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (an offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan) and has been associated with the Fidaeen of Malik Ishaq, one of the founders of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, people close to the accused told The Express Tribune on Sunday.
Abdullah and an accomplice were captured when they attacked the Ahmadi place of worship on May 28 in Model Town, Lahore. Abdullah is reported to have told the police about his origins and his father’s name during preliminary interrogations.
According to a police report which was published on May 29, Abdullah was a resident of Saja village of Tehsil Khanpur, district Rahimyar Khan, and his caste is Chachar. His family, the police said, moved from Rahimyar Khan to Karachi about a decade ago.
Abdullah’s relatives, who requested anonymity, told The Express Tribune that the local police were continuously conducting raids in the area and that they had refused to reveal they were related to the accused.
One relative said that during the 1990s, Ishaq had visited the area and stayed with Abdullah’s family. He said Abdullah’s family had helped Ishaq in collecting wheat, funds and sacrificial hides from the area for Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, an outfit which was not banned at the time.
The relative said that after Ishaq’s arrest in 1997, Abdullah’s family migrated to Karachi. He also said that Abdullah preached and recruited many others for jihad in Sahja Town.
Sahja Police SHO Inspector Amanullah Warraich told The Express Tribune that he and various teams of law enforcement agencies in the area are trying to locate Abdullah’s father and his family, but have yet not succeeded.
The head of the Chachar family, Sardar Sadiq Chachar, told The Express Tribune that around a thousand members of the family lived in Mouza Jangi of Sahja Town, and none of them were members of Abdullah’s family.
He said that majority of Chachars migrated to Karachi where they attended madrasahs and started preaching around the country.
Raees Haji Ehsan, a relative of Abdullah’s family, said that Abdullah’s father migrated from Sahja to Karachi a decade ago. He also admitted meeting Abdullah in Rahimyar Khan in December last year, where he was living with members of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
A close friend of Ishaq and former office bearer of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, who requested anonymity, told The Express Tribune that there are still 2,500 trained Fidaeens of Malik Ishaq currently in Rahimyar Khan. He said that Abdullah was trapped by one of these men and was sent to the tribal areas for training.
He also said that Ishaq’s trained fidaeens have changed their strategy of violence due to lack of leadership, and have divided Rahimyar Khan into different zones where they recruit people.
DPO Rahimyar Khan Babar Sarfraz, however, denied the existence of fidaeen in the city and said that it was a peaceful place. According to him, religious harmony prevails in the district and reiterated that Abdullah’s family had migrated from the city.
Published in the Express Tribune, May 31st, 2010.
Update: May 31
One more arrest
Law enforcement agencies arrested a suspect named Hazrat, who they say is a key figure in connection with the Lahore attack.
Law enforcement personnel recieved a tip off from arrested suspect Abdullah during interrogation. He told them that the Ferozwala resident provided logistic support. Officials said this is an important arrest and will help them make further arrests.
Two other suspects from Raiwind and one from Mazang were also held.
Source: Express Tribune
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Rana Sanaullah is a notorious sectarian ring leader from Faisalabad.
No wonder, the Punjab government is equally slack in compensation and medical treatment of those injured:
Punjab govt’s treatment of Friday’s victims criticised
* Hina Jilani says provincial govt’s attitude disappointing, shameful
* Pervaiz Rasheed says victims of Friday’s attacks will get due compensation very soon
By Afnan Khan
LAHORE: Human rights activists and Ahmedis have censured the Punjab government’s attitude towards the victims of Friday’s terrorist attacks, as the authorities have neither announced any compensation for the victims of the incident nor have they bothered to visit any of the crime scenes to condole with the relatives or the leadership of the community.
Rights activists stated that the government’s behaviour towards the Ahmedis gave the impression that the minority group were not Pakistanis and the rulers did not share their grief. Ahmedis’ spokesman Munawar Ali Shahid told Daily Times that the community was shocked by the Punjab government’s behaviour towards the victims of the attacks, as a large number of people had visited the terror attack sites to condole with the victims, but none of them were government officials.
He said that Interior Minister Rehman Malik was the only person from the federal government who visited one of the sites. “The government always announces compensation for the victims of any terror attack in Lahore right after the incident takes place, yet they are silent about the attack on us as if those who were injured or killed in the incident were not human or Pakistanis,” Munawar said.
Disappointing: Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Punjab Chairwoman Hina Jilani told Daily Times that the way the Punjab government was treating the victims of the terrorist attacks in Model Town and Garhi Shahu was disappointing and shameful.
“The provincial government failed to counter the impression that they were not taking sides. Now it is too late to announce any compensation for the victims because the discriminatory behaviour towards the minority had already been exposed,” she said, adding that the HRCP was closely monitoring the post-attack scenario and the government’s responsibilities in light of the attacks and the commission will highlight these flaws and discriminatory behaviour in its reports.
A number of rights activists including Nadeem Anthony, Bushra Khalid and Rashid Lodhi also visited the worship place in Garhi Shahu and criticised the government’s discriminatory behaviour towards the victims of the attacks.
They said that it was a “sorry state of affair” that no government official had bothered to visit the sites and condole with the relatives or leaders of the victims.
They said that Ahmedis were Pakistanis and the government should ensure that their rights as citizens of the country are properly exercised. They also criticised the rulers for keeping all trained law enforcers for their personal security, while leaving citizens and their worship places at the mercy of terrorists.
The visitors also organised a candlelight vigil at the worship place in Garhi Shahu and observed silence in respect of those who had lost their lives in the attacks. The participants also placed flowers and bouquets in the memory of the victims.
Compensation: However, Punjab government spokesperson Pervaiz Rasheed told Daily Times that there were standard procedures for granting compensation to every victim of terrorism, adding that the victims of Friday’s attacks will also get the due compensation under the same criteria very soon.
However, he abstained from commenting on why the government had not announced any compensation for the victims as it had done on previous occasions.
http://dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=20105\31\story_31-5-2010_pg13_1
Punjab ignoring CID report on terror groups By Nasir Jamal and Shakeel Ahmed Wednesday, 02 Jun, 2010 http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/punjab-ignoring-cid-report-on-terror-groups-260
LAHORE: The Shahbaz Sharif government appears to be reluctant to take action against the banned sectarian and Jihadi organisations operating in Punjab in spite of evidence that these may have been involved in many terrorist attacks in the province recently and may have strong links with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The Sharif government’s unwillingness to deal with the growing menace of terrorism in the province, including its southern districts, is in defiance of the evaluation by its own counter-terrorism agencies. A recent secret document based on data collected in south Punjab finds that a number of banned groups are carrying out a “sustained drive” to recruit fresh cadre from among the “poverty stricken, illiterate and unemployed” youth in the region.
‘Terrorists active’
Interior Minister Rehman Malik says that terrorists taking refuge in southern Punjab were “now active” to “destabilise the country after the defeat of the Taliban in Fata”. “They — Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ), the Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) and Jaish-i-Mohammad (JM) — are allies of the Taliban and Al Qaeda…,” he was quoted to have said.
The minister also hinted at an operation in south Punjab on the pattern of the one carried out in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) “because nearly 700 out of the more than 1,700 people with suspected links with the banned terrorist and sectarian outfits belonged to southern Punjab”.
“Army operations are required only where there are no-go areas and there is no such situation in any part of Punjab,” Rana Sanaullah, Punjab Law Minister and a trusted aide of Shahbaz Sharif, rebuffed the interior minister. The provincial minister, who attracted wide criticism for hobnobbing with the leader of the banned SSP’s during an election campaign in Jhang a couple of months ago, dubbed Mr Malik’s statement an attempt to destabilise the province (and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz government).
Rana Sanaullah has rejected demands for an operation in south Punjab, but promises to bring to justice those involved in terrorist activities like the ones that took place in Lahore during the last four days.
List of suspects
Talking to Dawn, police officials of Dera Ghazi Khan and Multan expressed their ignorance of the list of people suspected of their links with the banned sectarian and Jihadi organisations as mentioned by Mr Malik.
Regional Police Officer of Dera Ghazi Khan Ahmed Mubarrak said police had no idea of the list of the members of the banned organisations like JM and LJ in south Punjab. “Right now the police are only watching the activities of people placed in the fourth schedule rather than seeking any information about the people the (federal) minister has spoken of,” he added.
RPO of Multan Arif Ikram said the police were watching and provided figures to back his assertion: there are 275 people placed on the fourth schedule in the Multan region, besides 380 who came back from Jihad in Afghanistan.
Mr Ikram, however, conceded that an integrated system bringing together various agencies was needed to enable the police to come up with the right picture about the potential terrorists’ activities. The federal government, he observed, was being assisted by different secret agencies while the police, being run by the province, had limited resources at its command, depending largely on its CID wing. Owing to this the federal government may have more information about such elements as compared to the police, he said. He spoke of a new system that the government was introducing for the monitoring of Madressahs but didn’t elaborate what this system would entail.
A senior police official in Lahore says the government is preparing its strategy to deal with terrorism but he could not discuss it with media. “But let me tell you one thing: the involvement of some people from south Punjab in terrorist attacks does not mean that this region has become a hub of Taliban,” he said. “Far from it; there are no training centres in this region. The terrorist networks are spread across the country. Only some terrorists belong to this part of the country. Some, as in case of Abdullah, a terrorist arrested from Lahore for attacking the Qadianis, had left this part years ago and settled elsewhere,” he said.
A secret report – Talibanisation in Southern Punjab – by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) acknowledges that “the terrorist activities that have taken place in Punjab in the past couple of years invariably prove direct/indirect links with activists’ ex-proscribed organisations. This phenomenon does not qualify as spread of Talibanisation in society”.
State of denial
The question then is: Is the PML-N government waiting for a ‘standard’ Talibanisation of the area to start before it moves to control the situation?
“The Punjab government is living in a state of denial. It should first admit that the groups carrying out terrorist activities (in the province) are there and operating out of south Punjab before it can take action against them and protect people from them,” defence and political analyst Hasan Askari Rizvi told Dawn on Tuesday.
He regretted that the Shahbaz Sharif government was pursuing a policy of ‘reaction’ rather than ‘action’ (against terrorists). Even if reaction is what the Punjab government must restrict itself to, doesn’t it have enough proof of a simmering situation in the south to react to? Surely, only action now can prevent a full-blown operation in future.
As is pointed out in the secret report quoted above, groups and organisations like SSP and JM and their breakaway factions like LJ and Jamaatul Furqan are quite active in southern districts of Punjab.
“Most analyses have acknowledged the presence of strong sympathies for Jihadi and sectarian elements in south Punjab,” a publicity-shy Islamabad-based security analyst said.
Until a few years back, according to him, the militant groups operating out of south Punjab and elsewhere in the province and the Taliban from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had different agenda and focus. “But the Musharraf government’s action against the sectarian Punjabi outfits and reduction in intensity of Jihad in Kashmir under the US pressure led them to seek refuge in the tribal areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and obtain financial assistance and training from the TTP. That was the beginning of their joint operations within the country,” he said.
A police official in Lahore said the police were “alert to the threat and doing our best to control it”.
Right now, the people of Shahabz Sharif’s Lahore would be entitled to say that the police’s best is not quite good enough.
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