Detained: Malik Ishaq arrested at Lahore airport
Malik Ishaq, leader of banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), was arrested at the Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore on Thursday, upon his return from Saudi Arabia after performing Umrah, The Express Tribune has learnt.
According to the Punjab police and Punjab public prosecution department records, Ishaq is involved in more than 40 cases, in which 70 people were killed, a majority of whom belonged to the Shia community.
Model Town Division SP Awais Malik confirmed to The Express Tribune that Ishaq had been arrested in a case registered with the Nashtar Colony Police Station under section 295-A of the PPC on charges of spreading religious hate.
The police official said the case had been registered during the month of Ramazan, after Ishaq spread religious hate through a fiery speech in Lahore on the eve of the Khatam-e-Nubuwat conference. Following his arrest, Ishaq has been shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation, sources familiar with the development said.
The LeJ leader was released from Kot Lakhpat jail on July 14, 2011 after 14 years of imprisonment when the Supreme Court granted him bail in the case involving a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 31st, 2012.
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no use of putting him behind the bars , such beasts should be hanged publicaly
Check this news: http://e.jang.com.pk/08-31-2012/lahore/pic.asp?picname=1214.gif
i guess it should be 14 months not years?
May Allah punish him for what he did with innocent people because Pakistani Judiciary is always ready to accept his bail. And I bet he will be released soon and shoot another REVENGE video to show his brutal power.
He shouldnot be released....
Here they go again, instead of arresting real culprits, a man who has already been in prison for 14 years is detained again. Pathetic !
people like malik ishaq should be punished/hanged immediately. He and his organization, banned terrorist group Lashkar e Jhangvi has accepted the killing of innocent people belonging to rival sects. SC should not waste more time in delaying the case.