Assailants torch former military lawyer’s car
Inamur Raheem is a petitioner in missing persons case.
RAWALPINDI:
Unidentified assailants on Saturday torched the vehicle of a retired military lawyer, in what is the second, though indirect, attack on him this week.
The attackers are believed to have been after him for pursuing different cases against army officers and ‘missing’ persons alleged to be in custody of intelligence agencies.
Eyewitnesses said two cars and three motorcycles full of gunmen arrived at the Rahimabad area where Advocate Inamur Raheem’s son Sohaib was getting his car fixed by mechanics.
“I came to the workshop to get my car checked after I dropped my father at a district court. As I was getting the car fixed, armed men arrived at the spot and asked me who I was, after which they started slapping me,” Sohaib told The Express Tribune.
“They tried to kidnap me but an old man from a nearby shop came to my rescue saying he would not allow them to take me away. After people from the area offered resistance, the attackers set my car on fire and sped away.” While the police said they had registered a case for attempted kidnapping and destroying the car of Inamur Raheem, the FIR’s contents suggest a car had been torched during a brawl between two rival groups.
On Wednesday this week, armed men tried abducting Inamur Raheem, while he was traveling in a taxi. However, the kidnappers did not succeed and left after beating him up.
Raheem said the police had not yet registered an FIR against his attackers, despite filing a complaint. He alleged that intelligence agencies tried to harass him for pursuing cases against army officials.
Raheem has also filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court challenging the extension of the army chief’s tenure, saying General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has already reached the age of superannuation.
He is also pursuing a trial of Brigadier (retd) Ali Khan and four majors in a military court for their alleged ties with militant outfit Hizbur Tehrir.
Lawyers had boycotted proceedings in district courts on Friday and Saturday in protest over the attack on Raheem on Wednesday.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 18th, 2012.
Unidentified assailants on Saturday torched the vehicle of a retired military lawyer, in what is the second, though indirect, attack on him this week.
The attackers are believed to have been after him for pursuing different cases against army officers and ‘missing’ persons alleged to be in custody of intelligence agencies.
Eyewitnesses said two cars and three motorcycles full of gunmen arrived at the Rahimabad area where Advocate Inamur Raheem’s son Sohaib was getting his car fixed by mechanics.
“I came to the workshop to get my car checked after I dropped my father at a district court. As I was getting the car fixed, armed men arrived at the spot and asked me who I was, after which they started slapping me,” Sohaib told The Express Tribune.
“They tried to kidnap me but an old man from a nearby shop came to my rescue saying he would not allow them to take me away. After people from the area offered resistance, the attackers set my car on fire and sped away.” While the police said they had registered a case for attempted kidnapping and destroying the car of Inamur Raheem, the FIR’s contents suggest a car had been torched during a brawl between two rival groups.
On Wednesday this week, armed men tried abducting Inamur Raheem, while he was traveling in a taxi. However, the kidnappers did not succeed and left after beating him up.
Raheem said the police had not yet registered an FIR against his attackers, despite filing a complaint. He alleged that intelligence agencies tried to harass him for pursuing cases against army officials.
Raheem has also filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court challenging the extension of the army chief’s tenure, saying General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has already reached the age of superannuation.
He is also pursuing a trial of Brigadier (retd) Ali Khan and four majors in a military court for their alleged ties with militant outfit Hizbur Tehrir.
Lawyers had boycotted proceedings in district courts on Friday and Saturday in protest over the attack on Raheem on Wednesday.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 18th, 2012.