Spewing venom: Another LeJ leader put under house arrest
The Punjab government has jailed a close aide of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi’s operational chief, Malik Ishaq, to preempt sectarian strife, under Maintenance of Public Order.
Ghulam Rasool Shah, who is also a co-accused in some cases of terrorism registered against Ishaq, was earlier confined in his hometown, Bahawalnagar. Intelligence and law enforcement agencies’ reports have revealed that the banned organisation’s leaders are engaged in highly objectionable activities which may spark sectarian violence in Punjab, particularly in the areas they visited, said sources in the counterterrorism department.
Shah was transferred to prison for 30 days from the police guesthouse where he was being detained. District Coordination Officer (DCO) Asim Iqbal issued a detention order which may be extended up to 90 days. Ishaq, who was released from Kot Lakhpat jail in the third week of July, has been under temporary house arrest in Rahimyar Khan since Thursday. The 12 police officials deployed at his house for round-the-clock guard are not just there to make sure he stays home but also to ensure his security. His 10-day detention order is likely to be extended, according to sources in the security branch of Rahimyar Khan police. The city’s DCO issued the order at the district police officer’s request.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 24th, 2011.
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dear asad you were right His detention order is likely to be extended, and he has transferred from home to central jail yesterday morning and dpo said that the ordered issued from Islamabad
@Mirza: "We have to choose between the cancer of terrorism or Pakistan."
That doesn't say much. What kind of Pakistan?
I think if you had said "we have to choose between the cancer of terrorism and a civilized, tolerant, truly democratic and secular society suited to the 21st century at peace with its neighbors" that would have fully defined a progressive modern society. Pakistan has not been anywhere near that definition since its creation and, I am sorry to say, will not likely approach that 21st century definition in the next 200 years. Pakistan has actually been moving in the opposite direction towards 7th century.
I think best solution of this is to listen point of opinion of both parties .if govt make a legal policy against shia that if they write any book or speech against Respected friend of prophet PBUH and burn all old books and banned all that books and in case of violation of this law will hang them inshAllah I hope this problem will bbe solved permanently and after that if any Lashkar people will do any violation must hang him
How can you deliver justice to these butchers and criminals, when the CJ is indoctrinated with the same radicalized Islam, and when his relative, the Punjab law minister, frequents with them and fails to provide proper prosecution required to take them to justice. The result is that Punjab has become the breeding ground of hatred, and butchery.
the banned organization leader should use the brain that after spending several years in the jail he is involving again in the objectionable activities which may cause a risk factor for his another organization sipahe sahaba
Please closely look at their faces; hatred is writ large on them. Years of patronizing and appeasing the terrorists, including religious terrorists, continues to produce crop of men who know nothing but violance and hatred in the name of their misbelief. Unless the society and the state submits to the rule of law without exception, there is little hope for reformation.
We should have something named Mullah-pound to catch such creatures and get done with them.
When the state decides to use terror as an instrument of policy then organisations such as these will flourish. Faulty, short sighted and selfish policies have to be reversed, painful as it may be.
Grab them and present them back to their lords sitting in Saudi. This menace has been caused by Zia in this country and I am sure he must be getting punished for each killing at the hand of these monsters.
In a civilized society all militant organizations specially those carrying the word LASHKAR in their name must be banned.
Imagine the man has only got his passport back to travel to Saudi Arabia for performing Umra ! Does this ring bells???
We have to choose between the cancer of terrorism or Pakistan. It is simple as that, not a rocket science.
why can't the agencies just take him out...sniping...easy!
@Tauqir Fatima: Chief Justice of Pakistan, Rana Sanaullah and Mian Nawaz Sharif all are the other side of the same coin. Need the same treatment.
@M.Akthar: They are not even a minority, only a few thousand, hang them all.
Thanks to Chief Justice of Pakistan, Rana Sanaullah and Mian Nawaz Sharif for releasing such monsters operate in Pakistan so freely.
I feel proud of our LEAs, Intelligence Agencies and everyone involved with this crackdown. There will be resistance/distrubances from the followers of these banned extremists outfits but we need to tell them enough is enough; we cannot allow you to destroy this country anymore!