Read all the gory details of the involvement of the religious class in the beheading of a poor polish guy who was only helping Pakistan. That is the extent to which jihadi ideology has reached every corner of pakistan.
Shame on us all for letting this happen.
DAWN.COM | Pakistan | Ex-legislator named in plot to kill Polish engineer
ISLAMABAD: Shah Abdul Aziz, a former member of the National Assembly, was handed over to Attock police on Saturday for a two-day physical remand for his alleged involvement in the kidnapping and killing of a Polish engineer.
In a statement before court, a police official said Abdul Aziz, a resident of Karak, had been arrested by the Islamabad police and gave some clues about the kidnapping and beheading of Piotr Stanczak, a Polish geologist.
Aziz had been missing since May and was last seen on his way to meet the former Khateeb of Lal Masjid, Maulana Abdul Aziz.
It was believed that he had been picked up by security agencies, but until Saturday he remained missing and no one claimed his arrest.
Aziz, along with another suspect in the engineer’s murder Attaullah, was brought to Anti-Terrorism Court-II in an armoured personnel carrier under the protection of Islamabad and Attock police.
The judge granted remand to the police of the former MNA, who was elected on the ticket of MMA in 2002. The Bosal police also obtained two days’ physical remand of Attaullah.
The Polish engineer was abducted in September last year from the field camp of a Polish seismic survey company, in the jurisdiction of the Bosal police station in Jand tehsil of Attock district.
The gunmen before kidnapping the engineer killed his security guard Constable Mohammad Saleem, driver Inayatullah and assistant driver Mohammad Riaz.
In February this year, the kidnappers released a seven-minute video about the beheading of the engineer.
The MNA was arrested and given in police custody in the light of a statement recorded by Attaullah, arrested on July 15 in Jalal Adah area, near Pirwadhai, by the Islamabad police.
Sources quoted the statement recorded before a magistrate (a CrPc-164 statement) of the alleged terrorist, Attaullah, in which he said he, along with Mufti Ilyas, Hussain and Bilal, had kidnapped the Polish engineer, Stanczak, from Attock and detained him in Teera Mozai on the direction and support of the former MNA, Shah Abdul Aziz, last year.
They demanded Rs50 million and release of their accomplices Fasihullah and Waseem and others arrested for their alleged involvement in a suicide attack on a lawyers’ convention on July 17, 2007.
Attaullah disclosed that the former MNA had good relations with Taliban commander Tariq and used to meet him.
He said Abdul Aziz had suggested to the commander to kidnap the Polish engineer to not only raise money but also pressurised the government to release their accomplices.
He said that during engineer’s detention the former legislator had negotiated with the government. ‘Abdul Aziz asked commander Tariq at a meeting to kill the engineer if he did not return in a week,’ he said, adding that he was also present at the meeting.
‘Mufti Ilyas and his brother Hussain slaughtered the Polish engineer after a week. I only held his legs,’ Attaullah said in the statement.
He also confessed to target killings, bomb blasts and kidnapping for ransom.
Attaullah, who belongs to the banned outfit Lashkar-i-Jhangvi and Taliban of Dara Khyber, said he had assisted suicide attacks on Kohat GOC residence near the flag staff house in 2004, on a mosque at ex-58 ECE Battalion in Kohat in 2005 and on the main gate of 2 Training Battalion ex-signal training centre in Kohat in 2007, along with Abdul Ghafoor, Abdul Samad, Mufti Rashid, Usama, Umer Farooq and Hazafa.
Abdul Wali, Bilal and Abdul Rashid were the suicide bombers in the attacks, he added.