Fact is that rather than issue unconditional apology, he did not: a) condemn Taliban b) issued fresh list of threats
KARACHI: This is with reference to your report on the so-called ‘apology’ of Maulvi Abdul Aziz in response to criticism of his failure to unequivocally condemn the Peshawar school attack. In a TV interview on December 16, the Maulana did condemn the killing of the children but refused to condemn the perpetrators, the Taliban. So the fact is that rather than issue an unconditional apology, he did not: a) condemn the Taliban and b) he issued a fresh list of threats against all and sundry. It is very clear that he is unrepentant. And since he is a public servant (media reports speak of him still being on the payroll of the CDA), he should be immediately dismissed from his government job.
Secondly, cases should be instituted against him for gross misuse of public property in 2007 by amassing lethal firearms in it, for illegally accommodating trained terrorists in the premises of the mosque and madrassa under his charge, for instigating vigilante actions in the federal capital, for inciting his followers to kidnap citizens, for attacking and killing armed forces personnel, and for waging war against the state. Evidence of all this exists in abundance in the press coverage of these events in 2007.
Abdul Hameed
Published in The Express Tribune, December 25th, 2014.
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