Muslim cleric beaten to death in detention

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The Mullah community wil be up in arms..

Cleric dies in Pakistan custody

A cleric arrested in Pakistan for suspected al-Qaeda links has died in custody, officials say.
The cleric, Qari Mohammad Noor, and three others were detained last week in a raid on an Islamic school in the city of Faisalabad.

Police confirmed Mr Noor’s death, but gave no details. His Islamic MMA party says he was beaten in detention. There have been protests in Faisalabad.

Over 60 al-Qaeda suspects have been held in Pakistan in the past month.

‘Anti-state activities’

As news emerged of the cleric’s death, hundreds of students from Islamic religious seminaries in Faisalabad took to the streets, chanting anti-government slogans.

He was suspected of involvement in anti-state activities

Faisalabad police chief Abid Saeed

Pakistan issues $1m al-Qaeda list

The MMA has announced a day of protest on Thursday.

Police have not confirmed whether the cleric was in their custody or that of another state agency.

City police chief Abid Saeed told Reuters news agency that details of Mr Noor’s death would be released later.

Sources at a private hospital in Faisalabad - where a team of three doctors conducted a post mortem - say that Mr Noor’s body arrived under a police escort from Lahore.

Rewards

News of Mr Noor’s death came as Pakistan published pictures of six “most wanted terrorists” on Wednesday.

The authorities have offered rewards totalling more than $1m for the men, who include two alleged militants wanted for assassination attempts on President Musharraf.

Arrests in recent weeks in Pakistan have netted two apparently key al-Qaeda members.

Tanzanian Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, indicted in the US over the 1998 bombings of American embassies in East Africa, was held in July.

Earlier that month Mohammad Naeem Noor Khan, alleged to be a key al-Qaeda communications figure, was picked up in Lahore.

Material found on his computer is believed to have led to the wave of arrests in Pakistan and elsewhere.

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Absolutely disgusting. A Pakistani intelligence official has already said to a journalist that the cleric had signs of torture on his body.

No matter what someone has done, no-one ever deserves to be tortured. Unfortunately, the Pakistani police all too frequently in the past have been found to have tortured suspects in their custody. We can only hope that a full investigation will be carried out and that all involved, regardless of seniority, get identified and duly tried for this despicable crime.

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life for a life, hang those butchers at the police station.

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despicable. I agree with MS, nobody should be put through this.

inshallah though, one day MMA people will declare protest strikes when other people, apart from their core constituency are ill treated. they hold governments in some very key areas where very grave, equally grave if not moreso, bestiality takes place, without so much as a peep from them.

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Astagfirullah these kind of things happen in former soviet republics like uzbekistan daily.

But to happen in pakistan is really bad news. This is going to have real bad effect on police and public relations.

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I am really disappointed at the way government has been handing these detentions. Regardless of how much these people are guilty, or suspected of being guilty, torture is NOT the answer. The first shocker was when they officially decided as a policy to bulldoze down houses of those who were 'suspected' of collaborating with Al-Qaida terrorists. It’s a disgusting idea ..

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The government just shot itself in the foot. Police and military brutality is wrong no matter the victim.

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...But to happen [killing of a detained Mullah] in pakistan is really bad news. This is going to have real bad effect on police and public relations.
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Sad indeed.

Mullah-Aya-Tullahs have brought it upon themselves. They have killed Shia worshippers, Shia doctors, Christians, Qadianis, and other Sunnis.

They are the ones who allowed Araab butchers to kill Frontier Constabulary men in cold blood and mutilate the dead. This is time to kick all the Mullahs out of their hideouts. There will be one warning to cough up Araab and other terrorists. If you don't then may Shaitaan welcome you in the hell you butchers!

Khuda Hafiz.

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Campaign against ulema slammed

MMA leader Dr Merajul Huda Siddiqui has demanded registration of murder case against the interior minister, and has asked the government to immediately halt the campaign against ulema and other religious persons.

He was speaking at a protest meeting outside Makkah mosque in Society area. “Rulers will have to change their pro-US policy, otherwise, they will face strong protests all over the country,” he said, alleging that the said official had also become a criminal by ordering the murder of Qari Noor Mohammad in detention.

Dr Huda said that instead of arresting killers of ulema including those of Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, the government had itself started arresting and killing ulema, which was deplorable.

**“Arrests, torture and murder of ulema is aimed at creating harassment among them so that they refrain from opposing government’s pro-US policies,” he alleged, adding the whole operation was being carried out under US pressure. **

According to him, the government considered religious parties and their growing popularity among people a threat, and in order to defame them, religious scholars were being labelled as al-Qaeda men and terrorists.

President, MMA Karachi Hafiz Mohammad Taqi **said, on one hand, the US army was carrying out attacks on the shrine of Hazrat Ali (RA) in Iraq and on the other, Pakistani forces were bombing their own cities and people in its tribal areas. **

“The Pakistan government has not uttered a single word against the US attack on the sacred city of Najaf, which is regrettable,” he said, adding the government was trying its best to send Pakistani troops to Iraq under US pressure.

He said when the ulema and religious parties were compelling the government to refrain from sending troops to Iraq, they were being targeted. He vowed to continue their struggle against the government’s pro-Us policies. Later, protesters dispersed while chanting anti-government slogans and demanding action against the killers of Qari Noor Muhammad in Faisalabad.
Campaign against ulema slammed

**Pakistani forces were bombing their own cities and people in its tribal areas. **

“The Pakistan government has not uttered a single word against the US attack on the sacred city of Najaf, which is regrettable,” he said, adding the government was trying its best to send Pakistani troops to Iraq under US pressure.

Is this what pakistan has been reduced to

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Re: Campaign against ulema slammed

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.....he alleged, .....the whole operation was being carried out under US pressure.
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So these Mullah-Aya-Tullah cabal kills Ahmadis, Shias, and Christians under US pressure?

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.....religious scholars were being labelled as al-Qaeda men and terrorists.

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Scholars? My foot!

Mullah-aya-Tullahs promote, aid, and abet killing of Ahmadis, Shias, and Christians. What should be their lablel?

Ok! From now on all these Mullees will be called Flower girls. Happy now?

This Hafiz Takey and his cabal danced when 72 Shia doctors were killed in Karachi. Now this Munafiq wants to talk about the tomb of Ali. What a hypocrite.