Anti-Christian violence in Lahore further blemishes Shahbaz Sharif govt’s record on minorities – by Amir Mir
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Source: The News, March 11, 2013
LAHORE: The anti-Christian violence in Lahore where 100-plus houses and shops were ransacked, looted and finally set ablaze by a group of [mostly Deobandi] fanatics has further blemished the already depressing record of the PML-N government which has mostly failed to protect members of the minority communities from the wrath of the extremists and terrorists.
According to careful estimates, during the five-year tenure of Shahbaz Sharif as chief minister of Punjab, over 300 Ahmadis, Christians and Shias were killed in the province in hate-drive attacks (Ahmadis in Lahore, Shias in Chakwal, Khanpur, Rawalpindi and Lahore, Christians in Shanti Nagar, Gojra etc), with some of the horrific attacks targeting the minority communities taking place in Lahore.
In an almost similar incident, hundreds of Takfiri Deobandi hooligans belonging to the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP aka ASWJ) attacked a Christians’ locality in Gojra city on July 31, 2009 and burnt alive eight members of a family besides setting ablaze over 100 houses. The failure of the Punjab government to prosecute any of the 70 accused held responsible for the gory incident had compelled the family head to leave Pakistan after the Punjab police failed to arrest the culprits who were hurling death threats to him for pursuing the case.
The anti-Christian attacks were triggered by reports of desecration of the Holy Quran by some Christians, which eventually proved false. Five of those burnt alive were women and children who could not run to save their lives.
A total of 72 people were nominated in the Gojra attacks’ FIR who were set free one by one because the complainant in the murder case, Almas Hameed Masih, a resident of the Christian Colony, decided against pursuing the case and left Pakistan to save his life. Almas had actually nominated the president of the Toba Tek Singh chapter of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) in the FIR as one of the accused who was held responsible for the July 31, 2010 incident along with the local leadership of the SSP which had been renamed as the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ, political front of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi LeJ). Those nominated in the case registered under section 7 of the Anti Terrorism Act included Abdul Qadir Awan of the PML-N and Maulana Abdul Khaliq, Qari Abidur Rehman Shah and Hafiz Muhammad Imran of the ASWJ.
Ten months after the Gojra tragedy, two fidayeen squads of the Punjabi Taliban targeted two Ahmadi mosques in the Model Town and Garhi Shahu areas of Lahore and killed over 100 people who were offering Friday prayers. Claiming responsibility for the May 28, 2010 twin terrorist attacks, Mansoor Maawia, a spokesperson for the Punjabi Taliban, had said, “No Ahmadi would live in peace in Pakistan. Our war against them will continue till their complete elimination because they are as bad infidels as Jews are.” It later transpired during investigations that the master planner of the twin attacks was in fact a doctor of the Jinnah Hospital, Dr Ali Abdullah, who was also the president of the Jamaatud Daawa Medical Wing. He told his interrogators that while pursuing his medical degree at Allama Iqbal Medical College, he had received armed training in Azad Kashmir at a Lashkar-e-Taiba (LT) training camp being run by Hafiz Saeed’s Jamaatud Daawa (JD). His arrest showed for the first time that the LT was a part of the Punjabi Taliban who have let loose a reign of terror across Pakistan, especially targeting the minority communities. However, none of the accused in the twin attacks has so far been taken to task.
Seven months later (on January 4, 2011), Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was shot dead in the federal capital by Malik Mumtaz Qadri, a bodyguard from the Elite Force of the Punjab Police. The killer later explained that he had assassinated Taseer because of his criticism of the blasphemy law and his efforts to secure a presidential pardon for Aasia Bibi, a poor Christian woman already condemned to death by a Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court for having committed blasphemy. Qadri had admitted in his confessional statement that he was actually provoked for the murder by the fiery speeches of two Rawalpindi-based clerics Mufti Hanif Qureshi and Qari Imtiaz Hussain Shah. Mufti Hanif is the ameer of a Rawalpindi-based religious outfit, Shabab-e-Islami Pakistan while Imtiaz Shah is the imam of a Rawalpindi-based mosque called Amna Masjid.
Two months later (on March 2, 2011), Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti, a Roman Catholic and an outspoken critic of the blasphemy law, was shot dead in Islamabad. The responsibility for the assassination was placed on the Punjabi Taliban because of a pamphlet found at the place where he was killed. Written in Urdu, the leaflet claimed that Bhatti had been killed because of his opposition to the blasphemy law. His killers have yet to be arrested.
The next in line to be killed by the Punjabi Taliban was Bargeeta Almby, a 72-year old female Christian charity worker from Sweden, who was shot in the Model Town area of Lahore on December 3, 2012 for allegedly backing two Christian priests who had been accused of committing blasphemy, the preliminary police investigations have indicated. Bargeeta Almby, the managing director of the Full Gospel Assemblies (FGA), a church fellowship founded in the United States with congregations worldwide, was returning home from her Kot Lakhpat office when two unidentified motorcyclists shot her in the Model Town area of Lahore where she had been living since long. The day Bargeeta was targeted in Model Town, another significant incident took place in the Q Block area of Model Town where over a dozen masked men carrying arms and digging tools, vandalised the tombstones of 100-plus graves at an Ahmadi cemetery. Three months before this incident, Warren Weinstein, a 71-year old Jewish American US Aid official, was abducted from his Model Town home in Lahore (on August 13, 2011) by armed men belonging to the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) who eventually sold him to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
The ugly episode in the Badami Bagh area of Lahore took place at a time when the PML-N government in Punjab was already under fire from its political opponents for trying to strike a seat adjustment deal with the ASWJ in south Punjab for the upcoming general elections. However, a Punjab government spokesman refuted the impression that it has failed to protect members of the minority communities because of a soft corner for the banned militant or sectarian outfits.
http://www.thenews.com.pk/Todays-News-13-21505-Lahore-episode-further-blemishes-Punjab-govt%E2%80%99s-record
Story in Urdu
Sunni Barelvi (Sufi) Muslims condemn attack by Deobandi militants of ASWJ on Christian community in Lahore, demand action against Taliban-ASWJ-LeJ terrorists
Hamid Mir acknowledges General Zia’s role in creation of Sipah-e-Sahaba (ASWJ-LeJ), and also refers to PMLN / Shahbaz Sharif’s friendship with ASWJ-LeJ terrorists responsible for attacks on Christians, Shias etc.
شہباز شریف سے معذرت کے ساتھ… قلم کمان …حامد میر
جنرل ضیاء الحق نے اقتدار سنبھالا اور اسلام کے نام پر اپنے سیاسی مخالفین کے خلاف انتقامی کارروائیاں کرتے رہے۔ جنرل ضیاء الحق کے دور میں پاکستان کو فرقہ وارانہ اور لسانی و علاقائی نفرتوں کی آگ میں جھونک دیا گیا۔ آج کی اکثر فرقہ وارانہ اور لسانی تنظیموں نے ضیاء دور میں جنم لیا۔ فوجی آمریت کے خلاف سیاسی جماعتوں کے اتحاد تحریک بحالی جمہوریت کو کمزور کرنے کے لئے جان بوجھ کر فرقہ وارانہ اور لسانی تنظیموں کی حوصلہ افزائی کی گئی۔ یہ تنظیمیں آہستہ آہستہ بندوق برداروں کے گروہوں میں تبدیل ہو گئیں جنہیں ریاستی ادارے بھی امداد فراہم کرتے رہے۔ محمد خان جونیجو، بے نظیر بھٹو اور نواز شریف کی کمزور سیاسی حکومتیں ان بندوق برداروں کا کچھ نہ بگاڑ سکیں اور پھر جب گیارہ ستمبر 2001ء کے بعد جنرل پرویز مشرف نے امریکہ کے سامنے سرنڈر کیا اور اپنے فوجی اڈے امریکہ کو دے دیئے تو یہ بندوق بردار ریاست کے خلاف کھڑے ہو گئے۔ کفر کے فتوؤں اور غداری کے الزامات کا نیا سلسلہ شروع ہوا۔ مشرف کی امریکہ نواز پالیسی کے مخالفین نے اسے کافروں کا ایجنٹ قرار دے دیا اور مشرف نے اپنے مخالفین کو غدار قرار دے دیا۔ مشرف نے ایک مرتبہ نہیں دو مرتبہ آئین توڑا لیکن وہ ”سب سے پہلے پاکستان“ کا نعرہ لگا کر سب سے بڑا محب وطن بن گیا۔ مشرف کے خلاف اعلان جہاد کرنے والوں نے اپنی ہی فوج، اپنی ہی مساجد اور اپنے ہی مسلمان بھائیوں پر حملے شروع کر دیئے۔ تشدد اور خونریزی نے معاشرے سے برداشت اور رواداری کو بالکل ختم کر دیا۔ آج صورتحال یہ ہے کہ معمولی اختلاف رائے پر کفر کا فتویٰ لگا دیا جاتا ہے، غداری کے الزامات سے نوازا جاتا ہے اور یہ کام وہ لوگ کرتے ہیں جو اسلامی تعلیمات کے ساتھ ساتھ آئین پاکستان کو بھی خاطر میں نہیں لاتے۔ 9 مارچ کو لاہور میں جوزف کالونی پر حملہ ایک مسیحی بستی پر حملہ نہیں تھا۔ یہ اسلامی جمہوریہ پاکستان کی ساکھ پر حملہ تھا۔ حملہ کرنے والوں کو اسرائیل یا بھارت نے لاہور نہیں بھیجا تھا بلکہ تمام حملہ آور پاکستانی اور مسلمان تھے۔ بظاہر یہ حملہ آور توہین رسالت کے ایک واقعے پر احتجاج کر رہے تھے لیکن ان حملہ آوروں نے جوزف کالونی میں لوٹ مار کرنے کے بعد 178 مکانات اور دکانیں جلا ڈالیں۔ کیا یہ شمع رسالت کے پروانے تھے؟ رسول کریم حضرت محمد صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم کی شان پر میری جان بھی قربان لیکن جوزف کالونی پر حملہ کرنے والوں نے اپنے نبی صلی اللہ علیہ وآلہ وسلم کی شان بلند نہیں کی بلکہ یہ سب کے سب بھی توہین رسالت کے مرتکب ہوئے۔ انہوں نے شانِ مصطفی کے نعرے لگاتے ہوئے لوٹ مار کی، بے گناہوں کے گھر جلائے اور اپنے پیارے نبی کی تعلیمات کا مذاق اڑایا۔ ان منافقین نے پوری دنیا میں صرف پاکستان نہیں بلکہ اسلام کا نام بھی بدنام کیا۔ کیا اسلام اور پاکستان کے متوالے ایسے ہوتے ہیں؟ جی نہیں! یہ اسلام اور پاکستان کے دشمن تھے۔ اگر کسی نے توہین رسالت کی تھی تو اس کے خلاف مقدمہ درج ہو چکا تھا لیکن کسی ایک فرد کے جرم کی سزا سینکڑوں مسیحیوں کو دینا کہاں کا انصاف تھا؟
افسوس صد افسوس کہ لاہور کی جوزف کالونی پر حملے کے وقت شہر کی سول انتظامیہ اور پولیس کے اعلیٰ افسران خاموش تماشائی بنے ہوئے تھے۔ آج کل ہم میڈیا میں خادم اعلیٰ پنجاب شہباز شریف کے کارناموں کا بہت ذکر سنتے ہیں۔ جس وقت جوزف کالونی میں لوٹ مار جاری تھی تو سندھ کے صحافیوں کا ایک وفد لاہور میں بیٹھا یہ کہہ رہا تھا کہ کاش سندھ کو بھی شہباز شریف جیسا وزیر اعلیٰ مل جاتا۔ یقینا شہباز شریف نے کئی اچھے کام کئے ہیں لیکن میں انہیں یہ یاد دلانے کی جسارت کروں گا کہ یکم اگست 2009ء کو گوجرہ میں بھی مسیحیوں کی ایک بستی پر حملہ ہوا تھا جس میں چار عورتوں ایک بچے سمیت آٹھ افراد مارے گئے۔ اس وقت بھی شہباز شریف نے مذمتی بیان جاری کیا یہاں تک بھی کہہ دیا کہ توہین رسالت کا کوئی الزام ثابت نہ ہوا لیکن اس واقعے کے ذمہ داروں کے خلاف کوئی سخت قدم نہ اٹھایا گیا۔ اس وقت وفاقی وزیر شہباز بھٹی نے سانحہ گوجرہ کی ذمہ داری ایک کالعدم تنظیم پر ڈالی تھی کچھ دنوں بعد شہباز بھٹی کو قتل کر دیا گیا۔ 29 اپریل 2011ء کو ایک دفعہ پھر گوجرانوالہ میں مسیحیوں پر حملہ ہوا اگر ان واقعات کے ذمہ داروں کے خلاف موثر کارروائی کی جاتی تو شائد 9 مارچ 2013ء کا واقعہ پیش نہ آتا۔
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Back in 2012: Not first, since long PML-N has been harassing and humiliating minorities to grab their property.
Christians hold demo: Pindi MNA accused of grabbing church, hospital land
By Mudassir Raja
Published: July 20, 2012
The enraged protesters, including women, and elderly men blocked the main artery of the city, creating a traffic jam for over three hours. PHOTO: ONLINE
RAWALPINDI:
Members of a Christian organisation here on Thursday staged a protest against a parliamentarian of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for allegedly occupying a land reserved for a church and a community hospital on IJ Principal Road.
Over 200 members of the Joint Christian Action Committee (JCAC) blocked the busiest Benazir Bhutto Road near Liaqat Bagh for over three hours and chanted slogans against member of the National Assembly (MNA) Malik Abrar Ahmed and revenue officials for occupying the land for a church and Saint Joseph Hospital.
They were holding banners and placards inscribed with slogans against the MNA, accusing him of land grabbing and demanding the land’s evacuation and removal of an assistant commissioner as well as a tehsildar (revenue officer).
The enraged protesters, including women, and elderly men blocked the main artery of the city at around 3:30pm, creating a traffic mess.
The protesters also chanted slogans against PML-N President Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Rawalpindi District Coordination Officer (DCO) Saqib Zafar and revenue officials.
Addressing the protesters, JCAC Rawalpindi-Islamabad chief Akram Waqar Gill said that the land mafia has made their lives a “hell” and now they are occupying their worship places and hospitals without any fear.
He threatened to commit suicide by immolating himself if the land was not evacuated from the grabs of the MNA.
The representative of the protesters alleged that the MNA was enjoying the support of the DCO, City Police Officer and officials of the provincial land and revenue department.
They demanded of the provincial chief minister to take action against the MNA on an immediate basis.
When contacted, the MNA denied all the charges levelled against him, saying, “All office bearers of JCAC are fraudsters and falsely implicating him in the case.”
Talking to media persons, the MNA said that a person named Zaman Cheema, along with JCAC President Akram Gill, purchased documents of a five-kanal land from some party in Misrial and later approached him to help occupy it.
Ahmed said the purchasers only possessed documents for a piece of land that existed nowhere in the area.
“I turned down their proposal, which is why they are on roads and levelling baseless allegations against me. I have nothing to do with the case.”
Ahmed alleged that Cheema was “a notorious land grabber as he had also grabbed the land of a church in Gordon College and later used his [MNA’s] name.
“Now again Gill and Cheema are on roads for damaging my credibility. By doing so, JCAC wanted to grab the land which neither exists anywhere nor in their name. I will file a defamation suit against JCAC soon,” he added.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 20th, 2012.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/410605/christians-hold-demo-pindi-mna-accused-of-grabbing-church-hospital-land/
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