Wedding crashers: Guests accuse madrassa students of using violence
Two people were injured in Dad Laghari, Ghotki on Sunday when seminary students allegedly attacked wedding guests for singing folk songs.
According to reports, women were singing a Sindhi folk song ‘Sehra’ when students from the nearby madrassa, led by Maulvi Tayyab Arain, attacked the guests with sticks and stones. Hadi Bux Malik and his son-in-law, Hajan Malik, were injured.
“It was my son’s engagement,” said Hadi Bux. “They asked us to stop singing and used abusive language for our women and children.”
Hadi Bux and relatives went to the police station for registering an FIR. The police, however, detained Hajan Malik and registered an NC against him on the complaint of Maulvi Tayyab, who also reached the station along with his students.
“The police did not listen to us,” Hadi Bux told The Sindh Express, adding that the students also used abusive language in the police station. “It was not the first time that these students attacked us. The whole city is afraid of them.”
Maulvi Tayyab, however, told a different story. “They were singing at the time of Isha prayers. We’ve told them before not to play drums or sing during prayers timings,” he told The Sindh Express. “We did not attack their home - we only asked that they stop singing and then registered a case at the police station.”
Pakistan Peoples Party leader Mian Abdul Rasheed, Ilyas Malik of the PPP (SB), Aajiz Gabol of the Sindh Taraqi Pasand Party, Nasrullah Kaladi of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz and others condemned the attack, saying that protests will be carried out against the use of violence by seminary students. They also demanded authorities to take action against police officials who allowed students into take law in their hands.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 1st, 2012.
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Very unfortunate. Imagine the kind of teaching going on in these schools. That's why it is important to discard this brand of education and move forward to a progressive curriculum. I can't believe they would attack a wedding party and that too for a folk song. Do they want to bury history, culture and warmth??
Writing > a FIR > is blasphemy in Pakistan.
The very essence of Muslim tolerance, We do as we think right as the Quran licences us. You on the other hand must do as we say and respect our every wish.
Sindhi Nationalists busy striking and protesting against SPLGO are blind to this repression of Sindhi culture by Mullahs
@Sameera @Lost for words @Usman @J T
At least the Grammar police is still functioning in Pakistan
@Sameera: It in fact should be "an FIR" because "FIR" begins with the vowel sound "ef."
@Sameera: Its you who needs to retake grammar classes. Any word which starts with a vowel sound uses "an" instead of "a"
@Sameera:
"An FIR" is right, not "A FIR".
Use of 'an' or 'a' has to do with the phonetics of the word it is preceding, and not its spelling. It's like 'an Englishman' but 'a European', although both start with an 'E".
Type. Should be "a FIR" not "an". What is with the bad grammar ET?
Doesn't Sindh always claim to be the liberal,secular province? then why are Hindu mandirs in karachi being attacked and wedding parties being bullied?
Democracy is the best revenge.
This is disturbing. Sindh which was a land of tolerance and coexistence is the new victim of intolerance and bigotry. Is it coincidence, though, that the Maulvi Arain is not a local? Everywhere these exported and imported mullas impose their brand of sharia
another LAL MASJID in the making.
No one should be allowed to take law in their hands . Please you have no right to interfere in happiness of other people . if you cannot be a part of it , then don't even spoil it for them. essentially it means to MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS.
bigots
Next they will start using abusive language and violence to stop people from singing quami tarana