‘Banned Outfits’: 20 arrested for trying to stop ‘extremist’ rally
Police arrested 20 people from the Shia community after an FIR was registered against 134 people for attacking a Sipah-i-Sahaba and Lashkar-i-Jhangvi sponsered procession on Tuesday.
Shia Ulema Council has demanded immediate transfer of Muzafarhgarh District Police Officer Rao Munir accusing him of bias against the Shia community.
Two people died and 15 were injured on Tuesday in a riot in Ali Pur, a Shia majority district. The fighting between Shia and Sipah-i-Sahaba and Lashkar-i-Jhangvi activists started on Tuesday when the former tried to halt a rally by the former.
Kazim Ali Haideri, a leader of the Shia Ulema Council and Muttahida Wahdat Muslimeen, accused the police of being supportive of the banned militant organisations. Shia clerics have threatened a country-wide boycott of government of they are not provided protection against the extremists led by Malik Ishaq.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 21st, 2011.
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