Incitement: Hate speech case lodged against SSP leaders
Special Branch report says they called for attacks on Shia community.
Special Branch report says they called for attacks on Shia community. PHOTO: INP/ FILE
MULTAN:
A case was registered on Saturday against several members of a banned militant organisation Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), calling Shias and inciting violence against them.
The First Information Report was registered at the City police station at Jalalpur Peerwala on the basis of a Special Branch report.
It said that a religious meeting was organised on Friday evening in the Peer Aulia village with permission from police and the district administration. The gathering was chaired and addressed by Maulana Masood Nawaz Jhangvi, son of former SSP president Haq Nawaz Jhangvi.
It said Jhangvi led slogans calling Shia’s infidels. The gathering was also addressed by Qari Sher Muhammad, Maulana Abdul Hameed Ahmed, Maulana Bilal Ahmed and 40 others.
Some of the speakers said members of the Shia community should be killed. They also provoked people to attack Shia mosques, Imambargahs and gatherings.
A witness not wanting to be named said that the gathering went on for more than four hours and was attended by more than 1,000 people.
The police have registered a case under Section 16 Maintainance of Public Order and Sections 148/149 of the Pakistan Penal Code against 40 nominated people and over 100 others.
Another First Information Report under Section 188 has been registered against eight nominated people for wall chalking declaring Shias infidels.
A police official speaking on anonymity said the accused have fled.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 6th, 2013.
A case was registered on Saturday against several members of a banned militant organisation Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), calling Shias and inciting violence against them.
The First Information Report was registered at the City police station at Jalalpur Peerwala on the basis of a Special Branch report.
It said that a religious meeting was organised on Friday evening in the Peer Aulia village with permission from police and the district administration. The gathering was chaired and addressed by Maulana Masood Nawaz Jhangvi, son of former SSP president Haq Nawaz Jhangvi.
It said Jhangvi led slogans calling Shia’s infidels. The gathering was also addressed by Qari Sher Muhammad, Maulana Abdul Hameed Ahmed, Maulana Bilal Ahmed and 40 others.
Some of the speakers said members of the Shia community should be killed. They also provoked people to attack Shia mosques, Imambargahs and gatherings.
A witness not wanting to be named said that the gathering went on for more than four hours and was attended by more than 1,000 people.
The police have registered a case under Section 16 Maintainance of Public Order and Sections 148/149 of the Pakistan Penal Code against 40 nominated people and over 100 others.
Another First Information Report under Section 188 has been registered against eight nominated people for wall chalking declaring Shias infidels.
A police official speaking on anonymity said the accused have fled.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 6th, 2013.