Deobandi United: JUI-F protests the death of dangerous TTP-LeJ terrorists in a police encounter in Karachi
SSP Anwar questioned the JUI-F’s claims, saying, “If, like they are suggesting, I wanted to kill him, why would I wait for three months to do so?” STOCK PHOTO
A few days ago, District West police team led by SSP Anwar killed seven dangerous takfiri terrorists in a police encounter. Amongst the killed was a professional target killer of the Lashkar-e-Jhanagvi (ASWJ-TTP) namely Faisal Deobandi alias Makha.
As soon as the news of Faisal Deobandi’s death made it to the media, JUI-F leaders and workers in Karachi staged a protest describing the slain terrorists as their leader and a Deobandi Mufti (cleric).
TTP spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan has categorically named SSP Rao Anwar as their next target, including his name in the list of top priority enemies. He has alleged that all the TTP operatives killed by the SSP had been arrested before the encounters.
Only two days ago, all Deobandi groups including ASWJ-LeJ, JUI-F, JUI-S, Mufti Naeem Gang, Hanif Jalandhiri gang of Wafaq-ul-Madaris etc had gathered in Islamabad in order to form a united Deobandi front to save Deobandi takfiri terrorists from the wrath of Pakistani public, police and army. This recent reaction by Maulana Fazl ur Rehman’s party JUI-F to the deaht of a TTP-ASWJ-LeJ terrorist in Karachi is an evidence to that effect. In the past, Maulana Fazlur-Rehman has held many meetings with the leader of banned Deobandi terror outfit Ahmed Ludhyanvi pictures of which are publicly available.
In his statement, Karachi Police officer SSP Anwar refuted the allegations of the JUI-F and asserted that those killed were militants. “Who was a mufti? Faisal was no mufti. He was a terrorist,” said SSP Anwar resolutely. “When does anyone admit their man was a criminal?” he questioned. “Every criminal supports other criminals. Protest demonstrations and people screaming that their men were innocent after being killed in police encounters has become a tradition in Karachi.”
SSP Anwar questioned the JUI-F’s claims, saying, “If, like they are suggesting, I wanted to kill him, why would I wait for three months to do so?”
The police official said that Faisal was the TTP’s commander for Manghopir and Sultanabad. Besides raising funds for the Taliban and providing them logistical support, Faisal was also involved several cases of terrorism and crime, he claimed, adding that he would share the details of all his (Faisal’s) criminal activities with the media soon.
According to media reports, a target kiiler, Muhammad Faisal alias Makha, was killed in a police encounter in New Karachi area. Police sources said that Faisal was involved in 15 target killing cases. Police also recovered arms and a stolen motorcycle from his possession. (Source: Dunya News; Daily Times) http://dunyanews.tv/…/241294-Target-killer-among-two… http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/…/target-killer-criminal.
KARACHI – Malir police claimed to have gunned down seven militants, including a Karachi-based commander, in another alleged encounter on Friday while the TTP included encounter specialist SSP Rao Anwar in the top priority list of enemies.
District Malir police chief, SSP Rao Anwar, who is known as an encounter specialist, raided a hideout of the militants in Swat Colony within the limits of Quaidabad police station. The police said the militants offered a stiff resistance.
An additional police force had to be called owing to hard resistance from the militants while 500 police commandoes and personnel participated in the operation.
Following the encounter, five militants were killed and their two injured accomplices arrested while several terrorists managed to escape during the exchange of fire. The injured were shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) with bullet injuries in critical condition where they died. The militants who succumbed to injuries were identified as Kamal and Shah Faisal.
SSP Rao Anwar confirmed that five militants, including a Karachi-based commander, were killed and two terrorists with bullet injuries arrested, who were shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) in critical condition. The bodies of the militants were shifted to morgue for postmortem.
DSP Rao Iqbal said the militants belonged to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). Quaidabad SHO Amanullah Marwat said all the seven militants belonged to Shaheryar Mehsud group of Taliban. “They were involved in various incidents of terrorism and other crimes, particularly, a bomb blast at the Rangers Headquarters in North Nazimabad.
SHO Marwat claimed that one of the killed militants had been identified as Misbah who was the Karachi-based commander of his group.
It is pertinent to mention here that the district Malir police, headed by SSP Rao Anwar, has killed at least 50 militants in various alleged encounters in the last couple of months.
The militants killed in these encounters related to different groups of TTP and al-Qaeda while the encounters took place in various parts of the district, including Sohrab Goth, Quaidabad, Bin Qasim and Gulshan-e-Maymar.
Police officials believe that SSP Rao Anwar has been posted to avenge the killings of SP Chudhary Aslam Khan and Inspector Shafiq Tanoli in separate suicide bomb blasts.
TTP spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan has categorically named SSP Rao Anwar as their next target, including his name in the list of top priority enemies. He has alleged that all the TTP operatives killed by the SSP had been arrested before the encounters.
It’s worth mentioning here that the tit-for-tat formula of Karachi police has so far remained fruitless as the militants have intensified their activities against the police, killing around 200 security personnel in the metropolis.
AFP adds: Police said Friday they had killed five Taliban militants in a gunfight in the southern port city of Karachi.
The shootout came as police raided a suspected hideout of TTP in the poor neighbourhood of Gulshan-e-Buner, senior police official Rao Anwar told AFP. “The police asked the militants to surrender, but they opened fire, after which they took the armed action,” he added.
“Five terrorists were killed in the exchange of fire while two terrorists who had been arrested with bullet injuries died in then hospital,” Anwar said, adding that a large stash of weapons was recovered from the scene.
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KARACHI: Leaders and workers of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) on Sunday evening ended their hours-long protest held at the Numaish traffic intersection against the killing of their leader Mufti Shah Faisal by police in an alleged encounter in Quaidabad on Friday.
They put off the protest after high-level contacts between leaders of the religious party and the police authorities in which a pledge was made that their ‘reservations’ would be addressed at a meeting on Monday (today).
Sindh police IG Ghulam Hyder Jamali and Karachi AIG Ghulam Qadir Thebo would hold talks with a seven-member delegation of the JUI-F to be led by Senator Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro, said police and the JUI-F leaders.
“Talks would revolve around three main demands of the JUI-F leaders,” said Karachi-East DIG Munir Ahmed Shaikh.
The party leaders have certain ‘reservations’ over the alleged encounter in which Mufti Shah Faisal with six others was killed.
First, they demanded that a team of ‘competent and honest’ police officers be set up to investigate the encounter, said the DIG-East. If it was found that the encounter was ‘not genuine’, the ‘situation should be rectified as per the JUI-F demand’. Secondly, Munir Shaikh said, the religious party leaders demanded ‘action’ against Malir SSP Rao Anwar and Quaidabad SHO Amanullah Marwat that were likely to come under deliberations at Monday’s meeting. Thirdly, the JUI-F had also raised other ‘issues’ in the rest of Sindh faced by party leaders and activists and it wanted that such purported police actions should be avoided in the future.
JUI-F Karachi leader Qari Usman corroborated the views of the senior police officer.
The religious leader who led the protest told Dawn that they accepted the ‘request’ made by two senior police officers over the phone with him and their provincial leader Dr Khalid Mehmood Soomro. Now they would not march on Chief Minister House carrying the body of Mufti Shah Faisal.
Later, they held funeral prayers at Purani Numaish and dispersed peacefully as the authorities made a ‘promise’ that an ‘inquiry’ would be launched into the encounter.
Qari Usman claimed that Mufti Shah Faisal was taken away from his home in Surjani Town with his brother Noor Wali on Aug 23. The Sachal police released Noor Wali on Sept 2 at around 8pm after taking Rs25,000 as a ‘bribe’ and the police allegedly killed his brother Mufti Faisal in a ‘fake encounter’ at Quaidabad on Friday.
He said the JUI-F delegation would hold talks with the Sindh police IG at his office on Monday at 4pm.
Earlier, speakers at the gathering demanded constitution of a judicial commission to investigate the ‘extrajudicial murder’ of Mufti Shah Faisal and release of party workers, warning that otherwise the JUI-F would block all entry and exit routes of Karachi until their demands were met.
Those who spoke at the sit-in included Qari Muhammad Osman, Maulana Abdul Karim Abid, Maulana Muhammad Ghayas, Maulana Omar Sadiq, Qazi Fakhrul Hasan, Maulana Ehsanullah Takarvi, Maulana Abdul Rasheed Nomani, Qazi Aminul Haq Azad and Kaleemullah, brother of the slain Mufti Shah Faisal .
Published in Dawn, November 17th, 2014
KARACHI:
Scores of activists and supporters of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazlur Rehman (JUI-F) staged a demonstration to protest the killing of their party’s local leader on Sunday.
The JUI-F’s local leader, Mufti Shah Faisal, was killed in an alleged encounter with the District Malir Police in Swat Colony, Quaidabad, on Friday. Six other suspected militants were killed in the encounter, the police had claimed.
After identifying the body, Faisal’s family, accompanied by a large number of party workers and supporters staged a protest at Numaish Chowrangi, MA Jinnah Road on Sunday. The mourners sat with Faisal’s body in the middle of the road, causing all vehicular traffic to be suspended.http://tribune.com.pk/story/792296/truth-or-false-party-workers-protest-killing-in-fake-encounter/
DAWN recognizes the DEOBANDI threat
http://www.dawn.com/news/1146981/militant-organisations-exploiting-conservative-rhetoric “mir Rana of the Pakistan Institute of Peace Studies (PIPS) said religious organisations, especially Deobandi groups, are looking to reassert their relevance by marketing themselves as a non-violent alternative to militant groups, but in doing so, they are using the same extreme rhetoric that such groups use.”