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Incidents and Statements involving Sipah-e-Sahaba
Pakistan: 1986-2012
2012
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December 25: Information Secretary of the ASWJ,
Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqi, survived an armed attack at Moti Mahal
of Gulshan-e-Iqbal area in which his driver, a private security
guard and four Policemen were killed.
Two cadre of ASWJ were killed by unidentified armed
assailants in Orangi Town.
A cadre of the ASWJ was injured in firing by the
Law Enforcers in Gulshan-e-Hadeed.
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December 20: A cadre of the ASWJ,
Muhammad Rehan (40), was died near Zain-ul-Abideen Hospital in Rizvia
Society.
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December 19: An ASWJ cadre was shot
dead and his nephew wounded at petrol station bridge within the
jurisdiction of Nazimabad Police Station. Police said that the victims
Asif (35), son of Abdul Sami and his nephew Mateen (19), son of
Abdul Wasi were going to a workplace on a motorbike while unidentified
assailants also riding a bike intercepted them and opened indiscriminate
fire and fled.
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July 7: Three SSP militants, identified
as Saad, Hamza and Talha were shot dead in Surjani Town, sector
7-A within the limits of Surjani Police Station in Karachi.
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June 26: A central leader of the
ASWJ, formerly known as SSP, Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqui was escaped
in a murderous attack at Qayyumabad Bridge in Korangi area.
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June 25: A senior cadre of SSP,
Imran alias Bata (29), was shot dead while he was standing at a
bus stop in Godhra Colony in New Karachi. He was shot multiple times.
Police officials said that his killing was a sequel of the current
sectarian violence.
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June 14: Sindh Government banned
the entry of Maulana Masood-ur-Rehman, a leader of SSP in Sindh
province under Sindh Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, 1960.
The notification, issued in provincial capital Karachi stated that
Maulana Rehman will not enter, reside or remain in the province
of Sindh. The order will remain enforced for 60 days. The notification
further mentioned that Maulana Rehman had participated in various
conventions in Khairpur District and delivered hate speeches and
his further presence may promote feeling of hatred among different
sects.
PPP MPA Syed Fasihuddin Shah expressing
the concern in Sindh Assembly session informed the house that SSP
Nawabshah Nisar Channa was missing for the last few days and there
were certain reports that the SSP has been abducted by the militants.
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April 30: An activist of SSP, identified
as Farooq (40), was shot dead near Makka Hotel in New Karachi area
within the limits of Khwaja Ajmair Nagri Police Station. Farooq
was a seminary teacher. SHO Afzal said that the victim was from
Deobandi sect and may have been killed over sectarian grounds.
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April 7: Sarwar Bahadur, a leader
of the ASWJ, formerly known as banned SSP, was injured when armed
militants shot at him on Lasbela Road. Bahadur's brother and an
ASWJ supporter were also injured. The Rangers spokesperson claimed
that they had seized six repeater pistols, four Kalashnikovs, five
TT pistols and bullets from a flat in Eidgah.
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April 6: A cadre of SSP, Abdullah
Bhumka (55), was shot dead in Godhra Society. Abdullah Bhumka was
on his way home after offering Isha prayers when armed men shot
him in sector 11-G, New Karachi.
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April 3: As many as 20 people lost
their lives and another 55 were injured in a fresh wave of sectarian
violence across Gilgit-Baltistan, which erupted after clashes between
ASWJ and Police in which five persons were killed in Gilgit city.
The district administration has imposed curfew in the city.
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March 29: Complete shutter down
strike was observed in main areas of Gilgit city after the call
of Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jama'at to protest against the arrest of SSP
Gilgit Chief Maulana Attaullah Saqib. The protesters demanded release
of the SSP leader, who was taken into custody on March 27, 2012.
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March 28: Islamabad Police released
ASWJ leader Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi after negotiations between the
leaders and the local Police administration. Ejaz-ul-Haq, Maulana
Fazal-ur-Rehman Khalil, Haji Ghulam Mustafa, Abdullah Gill and former
MNA Mian Aslam negotiated on behalf of ASWJ leader, while on the
other hand Interior Minister Rehman Malik along with Police Officials
of Islamabad participated in the talks.
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March 9: The Government of Pakistan
has discreetly banned the ASWJ, the British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC) Urdu report said. In what the BBC describes as a notification
issued by the Interior Ministry two weeks ago, the ASWJ was suspected
to have been involved in terrorism related activities of the SSP,
the defunct terror outfit. The new notification, unannounced publically,
has been issued based on schedule-one of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
According to the copies of the notification available with the BBC,
authorities in all four provinces have been alerted to the change
in status.
The ASWJ chief Maulana Ahmed Ludhianvi
expressed his unfamiliarity with the ban. He, however, made it a point
that if such a ban exists, it would be challenged in court. He added
that his group respected the laws, and that trying to impose a ban
on his organisation was akin to imposing a ban on Pakistan.
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February 24: The CID of Sindh Police
claimed to have arrested five militants belonging to SSP and recovered
two hand grenades, two Kalashnikovs, three TT pistols and several
rounds from their possession during a raid at Allahwala Town in
Korangi Industrial Area of Karachi. The arrested militants were
identified as Mohammad Ibrahim, Shakeel Malik alias Mohammad Ali,
Hazrat Anees alias Jawwad, Niaz Ullah and Abdul Jalil Anwar. Police
further informed that accused also confessed to have carried out
the hand grenade attack in Pirabad area of Karachi in 2011.
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February 14: Two militants, belonging
to SSP were shot dead near Rickshaw Stand in Nazimabad area of Shamim
Shaheed Police check post in Karachi. They were identified as Shabbir
(35), and Ateeq (40). SHO Rao Ehsan said that the victims were affiliated
with SSP and were killed over sectarian bias. ASWJ spokesman Maulana
Taj Hanfi, condemning the incident, said both victims were the cadres
of ASWJ, Gulbahar unit. He informed that at least 15 activists of
the ASWJ had been killed in the current year and the Police had
failed to arrest any single culprit.
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February 11: Police arrested four
criminals, including a militant of SSP, and recovered weapons from
their possession in Sir Syed Police Station area of Karachi. A Police
party conducted a raid within the premises of Shah Mohammad Graveyard,
sector 9, North Karachi when some armed men opened fire on them.
The Police retaliated and after more than twenty minutes of crossfire,
arrested four culprits, including Fahim alias Qari Fahim, Zulfiqar,
Adeel and Arif, besides recovering a rifle, four TT pistols, 10
mobile phones and a motorcycle from their possession.
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February 10: Two militants of SSP,
Qari Jalal Ahmed (25) and Irfan (35), were killed in Buffer Zone
area of Shadman Town, within the limits of Taimuria Police Station
in Karachi. Maulana Taj Hanfi, spokesman of ASWJ, formerly known
as SSP, said both victims were going their homes after attending
the meeting of ASWJ in Surjani area.
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February 3: Three SSP suspects arrested
on February 2, 2012 were remanded in Police custody in 10 cases
pertaining to encounter with Police, possessing illicit weapons
and explosives. The CID Police produced the three suspects, Tauseef
Ansari, Salahuddin Israel and Maulana Muhammad Rashid before two
Anti-Terrorism Courts to get their remand in the 10 cases. Judge
Khalida Yasin of the ATC-II remanded the suspects in CID Police
custody in eight cases for 14 days.
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February 2: After the Sindh Government
announced a reward of PKR One million for the arrest of sectarian
killing suspects, the Anti-Extremism Cell of the CID claimed to
have arrested three suspected militants belonging to SSP for their
alleged involvement in killing 10 persons, including five lawyers
from Mauripur area. The CID officials also claimed to have recovered
three Kalashnikovs, three 9 mm pistols, two TT pistols, five hand
grenades, two motorcycles and 150 bullets as well as a hit-list
that included the names of the lawyers belonging to the Shia sect.
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January 29: Thousands of traders
and activists from religious parties gathered near the Holy Family
Hospital at Satellite Town in Rawalpindi District on January 29
to call on the Government to stop 'unconstitutional' activities
of the Ahmadiyya community. The protest, arranged by Traders' Associations,
was attended by activists of JuD, JeI and the ASWJ. Members of the
SSP were also in attendance. The rally took place in Satellite Town,
where an Ahmadi worship place, Ewane Tawheed, is also located.
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January 24: Unidentified assailants
shot dead two cadres, identified as Muhammad Ali alias Mama,
(33), and Muhammad Nauman, (22), belonging to ASWJ, near Pan Mandi
Jodia Bazaar within the precincts of Risala Police Station in Karachi.
The Police claimed that it was a sectarian killing. ASWJ spokesman
Maulana Taj Hanfi said that Ali was their legal adviser and Nauman
was the member of the core committee.
A bystander, identified as Ishaq,
was killed in Memon Society when unidentified assailants restored
to firing to protest target killings of the ASWJ activists.
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January 2: Chief of ASWJ Aurangzaib
Farooqui and three others were booked in December 31, 2011 murder
case of Shia leader Askari Raza on Rashid Minhas Road in Karachi,
while SSP of the CID's AEC Chaudhry Aslam also came under interrogation.
DIG South Commander Shaukat said that SSP Aslam was automatically
suspended since he came under investigation. ASWJ spokesman Taj
Hanfi termed the decision as conspiracy against his organisation.
The Shia protesters were demanding lodging of an FIR against the
killers and taking prompt action against Chaudhry Aslam, who is
said to be involved in killing.
2011
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December 29: At least ten people,
including journalists, were injured in a clash between two sectarian
groups in Khairpur District. Armed men from both sects continued
aerial fire, though a heavy bout of tear gassing by the police forced
many to leave. The markets in the area have been closed and Khairpur
is reportedly deserted, save for the Police and Rangers patrolling
the streets. Other reports claimed that there was a virtual curfew-like
situation as no one was allowed on the streets. People are afraid
of the clash escalating further because the tussle is between two
religious groups," said a citizen, Irfan Phulpoto. He said that
the tense areas were Nao Goth, the stronghold of one group and Panj
Gula, the stronghold of another sect. Some 600 Policemen and 200
Rangers officers were reportedly deputed to patrol.
According to the report, SSP has a
considerable presence in Khairpur District. In 2009, SSP leader Allama
Sher Hyderi was killed in the District. SSP leader Malik Ishaq is
accused of killing 70 people in over 40 cases.
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December 26: ASWJ strongly condemned
Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik's December 25, 2011 allegations
regarding the SSP involvement in the March 2, 2011 murder of former
Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti. ASWJ leaders rejected
the allegations levelled at their organisation declaring the statement
deceiving and misleading. The organization's Central Deputy Secretary
Allama Masoodur Rehman Usmani and its Islamabad patron Chief Maulana
Abdul Razaq Haidri in their joint statement said that the Interior
Minister had continuously blamed their party to hide the Federal
Government's failure in solving the murder case.
According to reports, ASWJ had decided
to approach the court regarding Malik's allegations. The organisation
claimed that Malik's allegation, against them, was due to pressure
from external forces. They added that this was to create a rift between
Muslims and Christians and that the allegations have no credibility.
ASWJ demanded that Malik should provide evidence and present it in
court or else the party will challenge his allegations in court. They
reiterated that their organisation had no links with terrorism, "We
never talk about avenging the death of one person by killing a 100."
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December 25: Federal Minister for
Interior Rehman Malik said that red warrants for assassins of former
Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti had been issued and
soon they would be brought to justice. "The two assassins are activists
of the banned outfit SSP. They had managed to reach Middle East.
However, we are making efforts for their arrest and will bring them
back to the country," he said.
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December 6: Two policemen were injured
when SSP militants pelted the Ashura procession in Jhang District.
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November 28: About 100 suspects
from two outfits were arrested in an overnight operation, following
the November 27, 2011 killings of two Security Force personnel at
a Shia camp in Numaish Chowrangi area in Karachi. Rangers and Police
cracked down on the SSP - that works under the new name ASWJ, and
LeJ activists.
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November 27: Two SF personnel, identified
as Zain-ul-Abideen and Azhar Hussain were shot dead and 11 others
wounded when some participants of a protest rally organized by SSP
opened indiscriminate fire on Shia camps at Numaish Chowrangi area
while returning from Karachi Press Club in Karachi. SSP had organized
a rally against the November 26, 2011 NATO attack in Mohmand Agency
of FATA that killed 25 SFs. Abideen was affiliated with Butarab
Scout and Hussain was serving for Pak Hyderi Scout camp. Sindh Home
Minister Manzoor Hussain Wasan claimed to have arrested 16 armed
assailants near Aalmi Majlis-e-Khatm-e-Nabowat and ordered officials
to conduct an independent inquiry into the incident.
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November 14: A cadre of a SSP, identified
as Abdul Rehman, was shot dead at his clinic in Babar Market within
the limits of Landhi Police Station. Rehman was a resident of Zamanabad
Landhi. "He belonged to the Ahl-e-Hadees sect and was said to have
been trained in Afghanistan." Some say that he was affiliated to
a banned outfit. However, Inquiry Officer Abdul Latif said that
it was unclear if the victim was affiliated to any banned outfit.
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October 30: The Malir town President
of SSP, Jabbar Qureshi was shot dead while his companion, Imdadullah,
injured in a target killing incident at Korangi Crossing in Karachi.
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October 24: Police recovered two
hand grenades, detonators and 75 cartridges from the house of a
SSP cadre in Dera Ismail Khan. Cantonment SHO Mohammad Nawaz Gandapur
said that they were informed that Imran Ali and Jamshed Mohammad,
both cadres of SSP, were hiding in the house of Merajuddin Mehsud
in Gulshan Jamil Colony. "We raided the house but didn't find the
activists there. However, we arrested Merajuddin Mehsud for possessing
illegal arms and registered a case against him under Anti-Terrorism
Act," he said.
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August 18: An armed clash between
the activists of Sunni Tehreek (ST) and SSP claimed two lives, while
four others were injured in Godhra within the limits of New Karachi
Industrial Area. The clash started between two religious parties
before Iftar, when two armed groups opened fire at each other. Resultantly,
two persons, one Ghulam Dastagir and another Taufeeq, Mohammad Hussain,
died on the spot, while four others Akhter, Shahnaz Bibi, Siraj
received bullet injuries. Leader of Jama'at Ulema Pakistan (JUP),
Tariq Mehboob claimed that victim Ghulam Dastagir was an activist
of his party.
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July 1: SSP and Sunni Tehreek cadres
exchanged fire over the control of a hospital located near Muslim
Stop in Godhra area of New Karachi locality killing seven cadres
and injuring seven others.
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June 30: A clash between two religious
groups, Sunni Tehreek and ASWJ, formerly known as SSP, claimed three
lives, including one woman, and injured 12 others in Godhra area
of New Karachi.
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June 27: One Kashif Wakeel, a cadre
of ASWJ, formerly known as SSP, was shot dead at Do Minute Chowrangi
in the remits of Bilal Colony Police Station in Karachi.
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June 8: Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, an
adviser to the Prime Minister after his visit to a jail in Haripur
District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province came up with the observation
that jails have become breeding grounds for extremists because outfits
like the TTP and the SSP have taken their "ideological campaign"
to prisoners.
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April 22: A former cadre of SSP,
identified as Mohammed Nadeem, was shot dead in Sharea Faisal near
Star Gate.
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March 6: A SSP cadre,
Zeeshan, was killed and his friend Mansoor sustained injuries in
an incident of target killing in Orangi Town within the limits of
Iqbal Market Police Station in Karachi.
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March 5: The SSP ‘leader’
Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Madni, who is also the brother of slain party
chief Maulana Azam Tariq, was shot dead along with his son Abu Bakar
in an incident of targeted killing in the Khawaja Ajmair Nagri Police
Station area of Karachi.
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March 4: A SSP cadre,
Syed Muzafar Alam Nomani, was shot dead in Burmy Colony within the
limits of Landhi Police Station in Karachi. Sources said that the
slain cadre was the custodian of Madrassas Omar bin Abdul Aziz situated
at Jumma Goth and was the vice President of the Burmy unit of the
Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) formerly known as SSP.
2010
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December 29: A cadre of SSP, Imran,
was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Sector 11-G near Nullah
Stop in the limits of New Karachi Industrial Area Police station.
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December 27: Five persons, including
a minor girl, were killed and three others were injured in sectarian
violence in different parts of Karachi, the provincial capital of
Sindh.
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November 28: A local leader of the
SSP, Abdur Rehman, was killed while his friend, Mohammed Faisal,
injured in the Sharifabad Police Station area of Karachi, the provincial
capital of Sindh.
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November 27: The Government announced
a reward of PNR 10 million to anyone providing information about
the TTP. "The government will make arrangements to settle the informers
and their families anywhere in the country, even abroad, if they
fear that the Taliban might hurt them," Interior Minister Rehman
Malik said. Rehman Malik said that most militants belonged to the
LeJ and SSP.
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October 28: A SSP militant, identified
as Abdullah, son of Amanullah, was arrested by Police under Chaki
Wara Police Station area near Lyari Town in Karachi, the provincial
capital of Sindh.
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October 5: A teacher of the Jamia
Binoria Al Almia shot dead in Site area. Police said 50-year-old
Maulana Mohammad Amin was going to visit his relatives when at least
four assailants fired from the front and rear at the jeep he was
driving. According to the Police, Maulana Amin was once associated
with the SSP as its divisional chief in Karachi and later quit the
party after it was banned.
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September 24: Police arrested SSP
leader Maulana Mohammad Ahmed Ludhianvi from Jhang in Punjab.
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August 2: Interior Minister Rehman
Malik, however, accused SSP for the assassination of Haider. Talking
to reporters at the Parliament House, Malik said there were reports
of death threats to Haider's life, which had been conveyed to certain
senior officials.
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July 11: The SFs arrested at least
53 suspects, including the former chief of the SSP, during the ongoing
crackdown against banned organisations in Southern Punjab. Sources
said that Police arrested former SSP ‘chief’ Tanveer and 19 other
suspects of the same outfit from Khanewal.
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July 1: A cadre of
the SSP, Qari Noor Muhammad (35), was shot dead in Khokhrapar Police
Station area of Karachi. Sources said Qari Noor Muhammad, a Pesh-Imam
of a mosque, and his friend Muneer (35), received bullet wounds
when four assailants riding on two motorcycles opened fire at them
while they were sitting outside the mosque.
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June 14: A leader of
the SSP was shot dead by two unidentified assailants in the Mobina
Town Police limits at Karachi in Sindh.
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June 5: Unidentified assailants
riding a motorcycle shot dead a SSP cadre, Shehzad (25), in Petal
Wali Gali under Gulbahar Police Station area of Karachi in Sindh.
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May 28: A person belonging to the
Shia community was killed and some others were wounded in a clash
between two rival sects at Islam Chowk in Orangi Town of Karachi
in Sindh. The clash took place between activists of the Ahle Sunnat
Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), the frontal organisation of SSP, and a Shia group.
The slained Shia person was identified as Shehzad alias Sajju.
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April 23: A Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
(SSP) cadre, Athar Jadoon, who was injured in an attack, succumbed
to his injuries. Athar was shot at near the Darul Uloom at Korangi
in Karachi on April 22.
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April 22: A senior cadre of the
SSP, Athar, was critically injured following a shot at incident
near Darul Uloom locality under Awami Colony Police Station of Korangi
town in Karachi. Landhi Town SP Haider Sultan said the incident
occurred in Sector 28 of Korangi where unidentified assailants opened
fire on the victim Athar while he was passing by on his motorcycle.
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March 30: A SSP cadre was shot dead
by unidentified motorcyclists in Karachi. According to the Police,
the deceased, Mohammed Nisaar, was sitting at his shop in Godhraan
Camp Wali Gali, when four men on two motorcycles came over and opened
indiscriminate fire at him, killing him on the spot. The four men
managed to escape after leaving a motorcycle behind.
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March 11: An attempt
was also made on Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem, a leader of the SSP,
in which he was injured, while his son lost his life. Maulana Ghafoor
Nadeem was shot at on his way to the city courts near Annu Bhai
Park in Nazimabad in Karachi.
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March 2: The Interior
Minister Rehman Malik said that the SSP and TTP were involved in
terrorist activities in the country and warned of strict action
against them. Referring to the SSP, the interior minister said it
had close links to al-Qaeda and Taliban. Malik also added that he
was facing serious life threats himself and had received threatening
letters.
2009
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November 20: In a suspected sectarian
incident, the general secretary of the banned Sunni outfit SSP Karachi
chapter, Engineer Ilyas Zubair, was shot dead and provincial information
secretary, Qari Shafiqur Rehman Alvi, wounded at Teen Hatti under
the Jamshed Quarters Police Station jurisdiction in Karachi. The
two men were going to a mosque near Teen Hatti shrine, when unidentified
men on a motorcycle opened indiscriminate fire at them.
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October 23: Police claimed the arrest
of a Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan terrorist, Qaisar Mauvia, from Sector
F-12, and also apprehended 60 suspects from different parts of the
federal capital Islamabad. Police said Mauvia was involved in target
killing and other illegal activities in the country. Meanwhile,
a senior Police officer said the Police had arrested 80 suspects
in the last three days. He said the Police continued the operation
on October 23 and arrested 60 suspects from Dhok Noon, Dhok Makhan,
Bhatta, Sohan, Pind Warian, Khana Dak, Khana East, Koral, Ghori
Town, Kalinger and other slums in the Aabpara and Margallah police
precincts. The official said police had seized 22 guns, 10 pistols,
two Kalashnikov rifles, ammunition and 102 bottles of liquor from
them. Most of the arrested persons were from Waziristan and Afghanistan.
Separately, Police arrested four alleged terrorists from Farooqabad
during a crackdown on suspicious persons.
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October 19: Unidentified assailants
shot dead a former activist of a banned outfit near his house in
the Rehan Colony of Bahawalpur in Punjab province. Islamuddin had
been divisional convener of the banned Sunni outfit, the SSP. After
its proscription, he used to reportedly earn his livelihood by selling
edibles on a handcart. He was coming from his house near Shama Cinema
on the Multan Road when two motorcyclists shot at him and fled.
He later died at the Bahawal Victoria Hospital.
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September 26: An activist of the
Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) was shot dead near Naeem
Hospital at Malir No. 15 within the limits of Saudabad Police station
in Karachi. Police said Mudasir, 30, was on his way on a motorbike
when unidentified assailants shot at him and managed to escape.
The victim, an area distributor of a food company, succumbed to
his injuries later. The deceased was also a supporter of the SSP
and was the witness in five high profile cases of sectarian killings.
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September 20: Pakistan's law enforcement
agencies are searching for 83 high profile terrorists wanted for
various crimes, ranging from the attack on former President Pervez
Musharraf to fanning the separatist movement in Balochistan. According
to a list maintained by the Interior Ministry, 41 of the most wanted
terrorists belong to Punjab, 21 to Sindh, 13 to Balochistan and
eight to the NWFP. Of the 83 terrorists, Bramdagh Bugti tops the
list with 31 information reports registered against him. The available
data shows the majority of the terrorists belong to various sectarian
and terrorist organisations, including the HUJI, SSP, LeJ and Sipah-e-Muhammad
Pakistan (SMP). The majority of the "most wanted" belong to the
LJ and the SMP and are wanted in various high profile cases, including
assassination attempts targeting Musharraf, former premier Shaukat
Aziz and the Karachi Corps commander; the blasts at the Sheraton
hotel and foreign embassies; arms smuggling; target killings of
rival groups, doctors, Police and intelligence officials and personnel;
kidnapping for ransom; and attacks on imambargahs (Shia places of
worship) and mosques.
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September 1: Police and security
agencies arrested two suspects affiliated with the banned SSP outfit
and involved in arranging manpower for terrorist activities. Official
sources identified the alleged terrorists as Abu Waqas and Mohammad
Akram. The arrest was made during a raid by a joint team of the
capital police and security agencies in Bhara Kahu. Literature regarding
jihad, cellular phones and SIMs were recovered from their possession.
The duo is accused of arranging potential recruits for the outfit's
cause in the capital's rural area and its adjacent cities and towns
for education and training. First, they used to arrange potential
recruits and bring them to a seminary located in Bhara Kahu where
they were indoctrinated. Subsequently, the selected recruits were
shifted to Waziristan in FATA for training in terrorist activities,
including suicide bombing, ambush and handling of weapons and explosives.
The suspects recruited a large number of teenage boys and youth,
the sources added.
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August 17: Armed men shot dead Allama
Ali Sher Hyderi, chief of the banned SSP, along with his associate
Imtiaz Phulpoto at Khairpur in the Sindh province. Sources said
Allama Hyderi was returning home after delivering a speech at a
religious gathering in the Dost Muhammad Abro village within the
limits of the Ahmedpur Police Station when he was attacked. Police
sources said one of the attackers, identified as Aashiq Ali Jagirani,
was also killed in retaliatory fire by Hyderi’s bodyguards. The
murder reportedly bore all indications of a sectarian killing, with
the head of the local police saying "it was a targeted attack
on Allama Hyderi".
The SSP leader’s murder triggered
violence in major towns of Sindh. There were reports of aerial firing
and armed SSP activists forced shopkeepers to close their shops.
The Army and the Rangers were called out to assist the Police in
maintaining the law and order. The protesters removed the main railway
tracks, suspending train link to the upcountry. There were reports
that the house of the suspected killer had been torched by the people
in Luqman town. Two persons were killed and another sustained injuries
in firing by paramilitary forces that tried to stop an angry mob
from removing railway tracks.
Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi
has been named as successor to Allama Hyderi. Allama Hyderi, who
hailed from Khairpur, was the fourth SSP chief to be killed since
it was formed in the late 1980s. After the Sunni outfit was banned
by former President Pervez Musharraf in February 2002, it was operating
under the name of Ahl-e-Sunnat-Wal-Jama’at.
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August 11: The Government told the
National Assembly that it had asked provinces to keep a watch on
the banned Sunni militant outfit SSP, which is accused of fomenting
recent violence in the Punjab province's Jhang and Gojra towns.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik acknowledged there was a lot of truth
in concern voiced by an opposition lawmaker from Jhang who said
the Government must act against the SSP to avoid the kind of situation
it had to face in Swat valley of the North West Frontier Province
after Taliban militants were allowed to thrive there. Malik reportedly
said it was a fact that the SSP had had been involved in terrorist
activities in the past and added "The provincial governments have
been asked to keep a watch on its activities." The PML-Q member
Sheikh Waqqas Akram said all of some 200 SSP activists arrested
in Jhang after a judge took a Suo Motu notice of the July 21 violence
were later released "one by one" and that he learned during a visit
to Gojra that members of the same group attacked Christians in Gojra
for unproven blasphemy, burning seven of them alive. He also that
a SSP leader had been allowed to address the arrested group's militants
in jail and to go around the country without regard to what he called
restrictions for banned organisations.
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August 9: The SFs killed a SSP leader
after an exchange of fire in the Malanari area of Dera Ismail Khan
District of NWFP. Official sources said Miftahullah, a SSP leader
who was allegedly involved in sectarian killings in Dera city, was
shot dead during a search operation.
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August 5: The Government announced
that 25 extremist and militant groups and welfare organisations
affiliated to them have so far been banned because of their involvement
in terrorist activities. In a written reply submitted on August
5 in response to a question in the National Assembly, Interior Minister
Rehman Malik said the banned organisations included Al Qaeda, SMP,
Tehrik Nifaz-i-Fiqah Jafaria, SSP, JuD, Al Akhtar Trust, Al Rasheed
Trust (ART), Tehrik-i-Islami, JeM, LeJ, TTP, Islamic Students Movement,
Khairun Nisa International Trust, Tehrik-i-Islam Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
(TNSM), LeT, Lashkar-i-Islam, Balochistan Liberation Army, Jamiat-i-Ansar,
Jamiatul Furqan, Hizbut Tehrir, Khuddam-i-Islam and Millat-i-Islamia
Pakistan.
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August 2: Paramilitary troops were
deployed in the Azafi Abadi village, also known as Koriaan, in the
Punjab province where 10 people were killed in violence between
Muslims and Christians over the alleged desecration of the Koran.
Pakistan Rangers personnel took up positions in and around Azafi
Abadi, a day after it witnessed communal clashes. Persons from the
two communities reportedly exchanged fire and over 80 homes of Christians
were set ablaze by mobs. However, despite deployment of the Pakistan
Rangers, the situation in the area remained tense throughout the
day as some Christians refused to bury their dead until Police registered
a complaint against those responsible for the killings and arson.
"We have arrested a number of suspects and exemplary punishment
will be given to those involved in heinous crimes. This is a crime
against humanity," Rana Sanaullah, Law Minister of Punjab, told
reporters. He said some outlawed religious groups were involved
in the violence but did not name them. A Police source said that
activists of the banned SSP and Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP)
were involved in the violence. "Their armed activists from other
parts of Punjab gathered in Koriaan village," the source said. Violence
erupted in the village, part of Gojra sub-division of Toba Tek Singh
District and located 160 km from Lahore, when a group of Muslims
alleged three Christians burnt pages of the Koran during a wedding
last week. At least seven Christians, including four women and two
children, were burnt alive. Three others were killed in Police firing
on August 1. The Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti
and provincial minister Sanaullah, however, said no Christian was
involved in desecrating the Koran.
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July 16: Two more activists of the
outlawed Sunni group SSP, including a guard of the group’s central
leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem, were killed in Karachi. One
of them died at a hospital after being injured in the clash a day
earlier while another’s body was recovered from Model Colony.
The body of 26-year-old Anwar Ali
alias Murad, a resident of Orangi Town and the personal security
guard of SSP central leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem, was recovered
from Malir Saudabad in the evening. He had been abducted from the
RCG Ground Malir a day earlier. Deputy Superintendent of Police,
Farooq Sher Zaman, said Anwar Ali was abducted when he, along with
some other SSP cadres went there to force shopkeepers to shut their
businesses down. "The police found his body from a railway
track in Saudabad. He was brutally tortured before being killed.
A single bullet was shot at his forehead following the torture,
killing him instantly," Zaman said. Another SSP cadre, Ghufran,
a resident of Future Colony in Landhi, who was wounded in the violence
on July 15, succumbed to his injuries at the Jinnah Postgraduate
Medical Centre hospital. Ghufran is reportedly the younger brother
of Hafiz Amanullah, a SSP militant who was killed on June 3, 2009
in Gulshan-e-Iqbal when he, along with his children, went out for
recreational purposes. Two other SSP cadres, Saqib and Arshad, were
also injured in the violence on July 15.
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July 15: Unidentified men killed
the central legal adviser of the outlawed Sunni group, the SSP,
Hafiz Ahmed Buksh, in Model Colony in Karachi. Buksh’s vehicle was
indiscriminately fired at when he was on his way home and his driver,
Nasir, was also killed in the attack. Saudabad Supervisory Police
Officer Farooq Sher Zaman told that the assailants used 9-mm pistols
in the attack, adding that the incident took place shortly after
the deceased left the Masjid-e-Ibrahim mosque.
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June 18: In a crackdown, the Bahawalpur
and Vehari Police arrested 40 people who allegedly remained associated
with banned outfits and sectarian groups. Raids were reportedly
conducted in Bahawalpur, Ahmedpur East, Hasilpur, Khairpur Tamewali
and Uch Sharif. The Bahawalpur Regional Police Officer Mushtaq Ali
Sukhera confirmed that activists of former "jihadi or sectarian
groups" had been arrested during these raids. He said those people
had been taken into custody whose names figured on the Police's
fourth schedule, which carries the names of those people who violate
their surety bonds of good behaviour and non-participation in objectionable
activities. In case of non-compliance, they are liable to be detained
or face new cases on these charges, he stated. Among those arrested
were Abdul Ghani, a SSP activist from Mauza Qaimpur near Hasilpur,
Aamir Shahzad of Ahmedpur East and Habibur Rehman of Khairpur Tamewali,
who was allegedly present on the premises of Lal Masjid in Islamabad
when an operation was launched during the regime of Pervez Musharraf.
25 activists of a banned outfit were arrested during the crackdown
in Vehari District. Sources said eight persons were arrested from
Vehari and the rest from Mailsi and Burewala.
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May 27: Another activist of the
banned Sunni outfit SSP was shot dead in the Aziz Bhatti Police
limits of Karachi within three days of the murder of another SSP
activist. The incident sparked tension in Gulshan Town, as armed
men resorted to aerial firing, forced the shopkeepers to pull down
shutters and also attacked Imambargahs (Shia places of worship)
in the area. 38-year old Qari Amanullah was shot dead while his
son Sufian was injured by two gunmen near a Tandur in Gulshan-e-Iqbal.
According to Police, the deceased was a former Sipah-e-Sahaba unit
in-charge.
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May 24: A senior activist of the
banned SSP was shot dead in a target killing. 40-year old Allauddin
was the Lines Area Unit in-charge of the banned Sunni outfit, and
had earlier worked for the LeJ. A source in the Criminal Investigation
Department told that the deceased was currently engaged in re-organising
the SSP in Karachi. Following the incident, participants of Allauddin's
funeral prayers started shooting guns in the air outside Imambargah-e-Ali
Raza. Subsequently, dozens of people belonging to the Fiqa-e-Jafferia
gathered on the road and started rioting by burning tyres and pelting
stones on passing vehicles.
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April 20: The Islamabad Police announced
the arrest of two hard-core terrorists from the federal capital
who were acting as planners and facilitators for carrying out terrorist
acts in the city. The SSP, Tahir Alam Khan, said Khairullah Mehsud,
a resident of South Waziristan, who was living in Sector G-9/2,
was arrested from F-9 Park. Intelligence agencies have reportedly
traced his links with terrorist groups in South Waziristan, which
he developed after the Lal Masjid incident. "He was in contact with
Gul Bahadur in South Waziristan and Misal Khan in Akora Khattak.
During the course of investigations Khairullah made certain revelations,
which eventually led to the arrest of another terrorist identified
as Khurram Shahzad son of Lal Afzal who had undergone terrorism
training at the camp of a banned terrorist organization," the SSP
said. He said Khurram Shahzad had visited the tribal areas as well
as Hangu, Bara and Peshawar quite frequently and during those visits
he had taken 'recruits' from Islamabad for training in camps established
by the terrorist groups there. The SSP also said Khurram Shahzad
and other 'recruits' who accompanied him on those visits, got training
to handle explosive materials, especially making lethal 'oil canister'
bombs.
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March 23: A member of the banned
Sunni group SSP was killed in an apparent sectarian attack in Dera
Ismail Khan in the NWFP. Abu Khan, an SSP activist, was near his
shop on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan when two gunmen shot him
dead and later escaped on their motorbike, witnesses told. A boy
on the street was also wounded. Local Police official Rasheed Khan
said "He was an active member of Sipah-e-Sahaba… It seems to be
a sectarian killing."
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March 16: 12 activists and leaders
of the outlawed Sunni group SSP were arrested in a crackdown by
Police in Dera Ismail Khan. Sources said the Police had launched
a crackdown on the SSP and arrested 12 activists, including principal
secretary of provincial legislator Khalifa Abdul Qayyum. Raids were
reportedly conducted in Alam Sher Colony, Madena Colony, Shiekh
Yousaf Adda and Katch Painda Khan.
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February 2: Unidentified men shot
dead a former secretary general of the banned Sunni group SSP. Chaudhry
Muhammad Yousuf, also a close aide to the local Member of National
Assembly Sheikh Waqas Akram, was on a morning walk when armed men
attacked him near Mohallah Babrana in Jhang. Yousuf, along with
Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, had founded the SSP in 1985.
2008
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November 23: The Taliban are present
in Karachi and have links with the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Sipah-e-Sahaba
Pakistan (SSP) and other banned religious organisations, but they
have no intention of carrying out attacks in the provincial capital
if not provoked by a political party or the Government, said Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Mullah Omer.
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November 21: Malik, the Adviser
on Interior Affairs said there were 17,000 seminaries in the country
and 3,000 of them were in Karachi alone. He said the Government
would regularise them in consultation with religious scholars of
all schools of thought. He stated that al Qaeda was using the LeJ,
SSP and TTP for carrying out its activities.
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July 30: Unidentified militants
killed the Dera Ismail Khan District Account Officer Syed Arif Hussain
Shah, police said on July 30, Daily Times reported. Two motorcycle
borne gunmen opened fire at Shah, who hailed from the Shia community,
near the Pir Zakori graveyard on Zhob Road, when he was en route
to office. The police termed the incident a possible act of sectarian
violence. While the gunmen escaped after the firing, no group has
claimed responsibility for the killing so far. Angry people blocked
the road in front of the District Hospital in protest and reportedly
shouted slogans against the banned Sunni militant outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba
Pakistan (SSP) and the local administration. Soon after the incident,
unidentified persons reportedly opened fire and wounded two activists
of the Ansarullah, a branch of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), at
Din Pur Chowk, The News reported.
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July 12: According to Daily Times,
banned sectarian and jihadi groups are flouting the Government bar
and are re-emerging in various parts of Karachi. Dawn News stated
that sectarian slogans, flags and posters of defunct sectarian groups
are visible on walls across the city, indicating re-emergence of
the banned groups. The Sunni group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP),
the Shia group Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) and Mukhtar Force
are the most conspicuous groups, the report added. The channel quoted
sources as saying that the sealed offices of the groups have reopened,
working under different identities. Some of the groups held meetings
in Qayyumabad, North Karachi and Soldier Bazaar, the sources said.
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June 24: The banned SSP has once again rolled up its
sleeves and started getting active across Pakistan, and especially
in Karachi, but with a new name Ahle Sunnat wa Aljamaat Pakistan
(ASWJP) which roughly translates into The Sunni Party. It has started
by requesting Sunni people to voluntarily shut down their businesses
and offices on Youm-e-Shahdat (the day of martyrdom) of Hazrat Abu
Bakar Siddique (RA) on the 22nd of Jumadi-Uthani, June 27. The central
information secretary of the SSP and ASWJP, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor
Nadeem said that they had started work in the name of the ASWJP
because of the ban on the SSP. "The case against the ban is in court,"
he added. The SSP was banned in 2002 by the government and most
of its leaders were arrested. The leaders were released in 2003-04
and started limited work under ASWJP. It organized a rally in April
2008 in Karachi after surfacing after six years.
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February 29: The banned Sunni group
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) reportedly drew several hundred supporters
near its headquarters in Karachi as it denounced the blasphemous
caricatures of the holy Prophet published in some Danish newspapers,
and declared jihad against Denmark and the West if they continued
to insult Islam. It was the fist major public rally by the SSP since
it was banned in 2001. The SSP's protest took place after Friday
prayers at the SSP headquarters at Masjid-e-Siddique Akbar in the
Nagan Chowrangi area.
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February 10: The security agencies
arrested 40 people suspected to be activists of banned militant
groups. Sources said that the operation was launched after the list
of militant activists was revised by security agencies after the
suicide attack outside the Lahore High Court on January 10. The
Ghaziabad police arrested 30 men from a rented house near Muhammadpura
railway crossing. Separately, police raided the RA Bazaar and arrested
seven suspects. The arrested belonged to the banned Sunni group
LeJ and were allegedly involved in the Rawalpindi blast. During
another raid in Saddar Bazaar, police arrested three members of
the LeJ. The Mughalpura Superintendent of Police, P. Sajjad Manj,
said Rustam Ali, who was a member of the proscribed SSP, owned the
house. However, he escaped the raid. Two Kalashnikovs, three 222s,
a shotgun and rifles were seized from them.
2007
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December 9: A team of Lahore Police
arrested a wanted terrorist from the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan after
a two-hour long shootout in Mandi Bahauddin. Muhammad Saleem alias
Hafiz Bilal, a resident of Gujranwala, had planted a four kg improvised
explosive device at the Bab-al-Imran mosque in Malakwal on June
30, 2006. Police also seized two Kalashnikov rifles and more than
2,000 bullets from the Saleem’s possession. Authorities had announced
a PKR 500,000 reward for Saleem’s arrest.
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August 24: In a suspected sectarian
incident, unidentified assailants shot dead an activist of the banned
SSP in the Dera Ismail Khan city of NWFP. 22-year old Kaleen Ullah
was shot dead in the Tareenabad Colony in Cantonment Police Station's
jurisdiction.
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August 12: The provincial secretary-general
of the SSP, Aslam Farooqui, was shot dead in Peshawar, capital of
the NWFP. Alam Zeb, brother of the deceased leader, caught hold
of one the attackers and handed him over to police. A police official
said one Shoaib Hussain of Parachinar, who belonged to a paramilitary
force, had been arrested.
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July 9: Unidentified assailants
shot dead an activist of the outlawed Sunni group SSP in the jurisdiction
of Shah Qabool police station in Peshawar, capital of the NWFP.
Police officer Latif said that Hayat Khan was shot dead at around
2 a.m. outside his Nishtarabad house.
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July 7: Police in the Mansehra district
of the NWFP released four central leaders of the outlawed Sunni
group SSP, a day after their arrest. Hafiz Alam Tariq, Maulana Amir
Mahavia and two other leaders were reportedly arrested from the
district's Ghazikot area along with two triple-M licensed guns.
Sources said they were released following interrogation.
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June 7: Police at Dera Ismail Khan
in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) arrested Rauf Baloch,
a leader of the banned Sunni outfit SSP, who was wanted in various
cases of sectarian terrorism and murder.
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April 17: Activists of the SSP are
conspiring for the release of their imprisoned colleagues from various
jails through violent means, according to intelligence reports submitted
to the Interior Ministry. The intelligence reports revealed that
SSP leaders have directed the group's district presidents to tell
their jailed colleagues to create trouble in jails. Intelligence
reports said that SSP presidents of southern Punjab districts, Lahore,
Gujranwala, Karachi, Sukkur and Dera Ismail Khan have been directed
to help their jailed comrades escape from police custody on their
way from jails to courts. 48 SSP activists have been imprisoned
at Adyala Jail and eight of them are on death row. Most of the SSP
activists have been detained in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail, the Bahawalpur
Central Jail and jails in Karachi.
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April 16: Intelligence agencies
have warned that three would-be suicide bombers have set out for
Islamabad to target government functionaries if security agencies
crack down on the Jamia Hafsa and Jamia Fareedia seminaries in the
national capital. Intelligence agencies submitted reports to the
Interior Ministry a few days ago warning that the three men, including
two Uzbeks, had left Darra Adam Khel in the NWFP for Islamabad to
carry out suicide attacks. 20-year old Ikramullah, a resident of
Gedaro Killi, Zarghun Khel and member of the banned SSP, reportedly
heads the group. The group, trained at a camp located in Shawal,
Waziristan, was reportedly sent by Tariq Mazid Khel, who runs a
training camp at Zarghun Khel and claims to have contacts with intelligence
agencies.
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March 29: SSP asks President Pervez
Musharraf to help resolve the ''decades-old conflict'' between the
Shias and Sunnis.
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March 13: Gunmen on a motorcycle
killed Maulana Farooq Ahmed, a Sunni cleric, and reportedly a member
of the outlawed SSP in Dera Ismail Khan.
Gunmen injured Hafiz Ishaq, a SSP
activist in Dera Ismail Khan.
March 8: A suspected member of banned
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) outfit, identified as Sarwar Alam
alias Alami, was shot dead by gunmen at Dera Ismail Khan on March
8, reported Daily Times.
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February 24: Three suspected militants
were killed at Cheechawatni near Multan in the Punjab province on
February 24 when the explosives they were carrying on a bicycle
detonated, The Hindu reported. Police said that two of the men were
from a Madrassa (seminary) that had links with the banned Sunni
group Sipah-e-Sahiba Pakistan (SSP).
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February 20: The Government
on February 20 claimed to have traced a network of terrorists allegedly
involved in the killings of former Member of National Assembly Maulana
Azam Tariq (chief of the outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan [SSP],
provincial minister Pir Binyamin and 41 other people in various
incidents that occurred in Punjab and Islamabad between 2003 and
2006. "Two members of the network have been arrested by Islamabad
Police’s CID department from Sector G-6/2 and efforts are being
made to catch their six accomplices who are reported to be hiding
in the capital," a senior official of the interior ministry
told Dawn. The arrested were identified as Mudassar Ali alias Usman
Chaudhry and Mohammad Ali alias Abbas.
The official informed
that in October 2003, the accused had intercepted Azam Tariq’s car
near Golra More Toll Plaza in Islamabad and opened fire, killing
Tariq, his three security guards and a driver.
2006
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October 31: Two activists of the
banned Sunni group SSP, Shahnawaz alias Shani and Shaukat alias
Javed alias Chand, are sentenced to death by a Karachi court for
killing six employees of the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere
Research Commission (SUPARCO) during an attack on their vehicle
in October 2003.
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October 18: Police at Mianwali in
the Punjab province arrests three alleged terrorists, identified
as Noor Muhammad, Abdul Waheed and Rao Saifullah, belonging to the
defunct Sunni group SSP. They reportedly wanted to carry out an
attack on a Shia shrine in the Sheikhupura district.
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September 2: An anti-terrorism court
in Peshawar sends the owners of four video shops arrested on August
31 to jail after charging them with selling CDs and cassettes containing
anti-Shia speeches by leaders of the banned group SSP.
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April 7: Activists of the outlawed
SSP hold a rally in Islamabad and reportedly vowed to establish
a global caliphate, beginning with Pakistan. In a rally attended
by thousands of activists of the banned group to commemorate the
birth of the Prophet Muhammad, SSP leaders called for an Islamic
theocracy in Pakistan
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April 4: Five SSP activists are sentenced
to death by an anti-terrorism court in Karachi on charges of killing
a police constable and an under-trial prisoner in an ambush on a
prison van near the city courts in 2002.
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February 21: The authorities
in Karachi detain two top SSP leaders, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem
and Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem, in a bid to contain the wave of
protests in the city.
2005
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December 30: Police
believe a member of the SSP has entered Japan with the aim of setting
up a base in that country.
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December 5: Intelligence agencies have
uncovered a plot by leaders of the banned Sunni outfits, SSP and
LeJ, who had directed their operatives to form suicide squads to
kill Shia members of the Legislative Council of the Northern Areas.
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November 6: Security agencies in the
Punjab province detain 32 of 190 activists, listed by the Government,
of banned religious organizations, including SSP, during Eid celebrations
from Multan, Bahawalpur, Sargodha and Faisalabad ahead of the cricket
Test match between Pakistan and England.
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August 12: Despite a ban imposed by
the Government on the participation of defunct extremist outfits
in the forthcoming local bodies’ elections, the SSP, a sectarian
outfit banned twice for terrorist activities, is actively taking
part in the elections.
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July 20: Security agencies arrests
Maulana Ali Sher Haidery, patron-in-chief of the SSP (now known
as Millat-e-Islamia), from his native town of Khairpure Meeras in
the Sindh province.
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July 18: President Pervez Musharraf
accuses banned groups like the SSP and JeM of forcing their ideology
upon others, although he did not link them to the London bombings.
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May 4: A leader from the defunct Sunni
group SSP, Tariq Javed, is arrested in New York for allegedly lying
on his immigration papers about his terror links.
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April 15: Four SSP cadres are arrested
for their alleged involvement in the bombing of a Shia shrine in
the Jhal Magsi district on March 19, in which at least 50 people
were killed.
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March 3: An Anti-Terrorism Court in
Karachi acquitted an activist of the proscribed Sunni group, SSP,
identified as Mohammad Faisal alias Pehalwan, in a sectarian killing
case. He was accused of killing Dr Sibtain Ali Dosa and two of his
associates in the Kharadar area of Karachi on May 2, 2000.
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February 15: Tatheer-ul-Islam, an absconding
most-wanted activist of the banned SSP, is arrested from the Lyari
area of Karachi. His name was reportedly included in the Red Book
of the CID.
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February 3: The police in North West
Frontier Province arrests Qari Anwar Khan, a SSP leader, from Charsadda
in connection with the assassination of Shia religious leader in
Gilgit, Agha Ziauddin, in a suicide bomb attack at Gilgit in the
Northern Areas of PoK on January 8. The suicide bombing had led
to sectarian violence that claimed at least 17 lives in Gilgit.
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January 30: Two unidentified men open
fire outside the Jamia Mamoor mosque on Tariq Road in Karachi, killing
a cleric, Maulana Haroon Qasmi, belonging to the outlawed SSP and
his bodyguard, Aqil Ahmed. Consequently, hundreds of agitated SSP
cadres, primarily seminary students, indulged in arson and damaged
some vehicles and also attacked a police check post.
2004
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October 18: Special
instruction are issued to the provinces not to allow Millat-e-Islamia
Pakistan (erstwhile SSP), Islami Tehirk Pakistan (erstwhile Tehrik-e-Jaffria),
Khuddamul Islam (erstwhile Jaish-e-Mohammad), Jama’atul Furqaan
and others banned outfits to collect donations during Ramazan and
on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.
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October 7: At least 40 people are killed
and more than 100 injured in two bomb blasts in the city of Multan
when hundreds of people had gathered to mark the first anniversary
of the killing of Sunni leader and SSP chief Maulana Azim Tariq
outside Islamabad.
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August 6: Police in Vehari, Multan,
arrests, Qari Ubaidullah, a terrorist of the outlawed SSP.
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April 22: Waris Ali Janwari, the father
of defunct SSP chief Allama Ali Sher Hydri, is killed in an exchange
of fire between police and SSP activists over the issue of a plot
of land in Khairpur. Hydri’s three brothers and two police personnel
are reportedly wounded during the encounter.
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April 2: A Anti-Terrorism Court in
Rawalpindi grants bail to Amanullah Sial, former member of the National
Assembly and one of the accused in the murder case of Maulana Azam
Tariq, leader of the outlawed Sunni group SSP on October 6.
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March 26: The Lahore High Court orders
release of Allama Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi, chief of the Tehreek-e-Jaferia
Pakistan (TJP, now known as Millat Jaferia Pakistan), who was arrested
for his alleged involvement in the murder of Sunni leader and chief
of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, Maulana Azam Tariq.
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March 19: The Lahore Police arrests
former Member of National Assembly, Amanullah Sial, who had been
declared a proclaimed offender in the Maulana Azam Tariq (SSP leader)
murder case.
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March 7: Police have registered complaints
lodged by relatives of some of the 47 slain people, who named seven
activists of the outlawed SSP, blaming them for the March 2 attack
on Shias in Quetta, capital of the Balochistan province.
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March 5: At least two activists of
the outlawed SSP are injured in a shootout with the police in Gilgit.
The incident occurred when the police tried to remove the hurdles
put on the road by SSP activists, who had gathered at Napura, where
a procession was to be held by the rival Shia community.
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January 3: Security agencies in Lahore
arrests six terrorists, belonging to the outlawed SSP and JeM, in
connection with the December 25, 2003, assassination attempt on
President Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi.
2003
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December 4: Authorities
in Pakistan occupied Kashmir outlaws six terrorist groups, including
SSP (now known as Millat-e-Islami).
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November 21: Law enforcement agencies
seal eight offices of proscribed terrorist groups in the Sialkot
district, including two offices of the SSP.
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November 16: Law enforcement agencies
seal many offices of three proscribed terrorist groups, including
SSP, during a countrywide crackdown.
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November 15: The Federal Government
proscribes three religio-political outfits under the Anti-Terrorist
Act 1997, including SSP, now known as Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan.
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October 7: One person is killed as
angry mourners indulged in violence in Islamabad after the funeral
of Maulana Azam Tariq, chief of the outlawed Sunni group SSP, who
was assassinated on October 6.
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October 6: Maulana
Azam Tariq, SSP chief and a Member of the National Assembly, is
assassinated along with four other persons by three unidentified
gunmen in Islamabad.
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May 17: An activist
of the proscribed Sunni group, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP, now
known as Millat-i-Islam Party), is shot dead by unidentified assailants
when he was returning to his residence at an unnamed place in Multan.
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April 20: Maulana Azam
Tariq, SSP chief, says that he and his followers had formed a new
party to work for the "enforcement of Islamic edicts" in Pakistan.
He said the new group is called Millat-e-Islamia (MeI) and said
it wanted to bring about an Islamic revolution.
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April 18: SSP President,
Maulana Azam Tariq, asks Lahore High Court to suspend the Government's
orders freezing his party's bank accounts and imposing functional
restrictions on it, till his petition against the ban on his party
is decided.
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March 7: An SSP cadre
is killed in North Karachi area, under Khwaja Ajmer Nagri police
station-limits, in Sindh Province.
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January 6: Four SSP
leaders are arrested in Peshawar after a court dismissed their pre-arrest
bail application. The accused are charged of taking out a protest
procession against the killing of a person in Karachi during 2002.
2002
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November 15: An anti-terrorism
court in Dera Ghazi Khan issues non-bailable arrest warrants against
SSP chief Maulana Azam Tariq in a case against him and four others
for allegedly delivering highly provocative speeches at the Nabuwwat
Conference, in Jampur, on July 31, 2000.
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October 30: SSP chief
Maulana Azam Tariq is released after 11 months in detention at a
prison in Rawalpindi.
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October 29: An SSP
activist is killed by two unidentified terrorists within the precincts
of Clifton police station in Karachi.
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October 27: Lahore
High Court orders that SSP chief Maulana Azam Tariq be set free
after the expiry of his detention period on October 30.
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October 12: SSP chief
Maulana Azam Tariq declared elected as Member of the National Assembly
(MNA) in the October 10-general elections.
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September 4: The dead
body found in a Karachi graveyard on September is 1 identified as
that of one of the sons of Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, a founding
member of the SSP.
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August 13: SSP secretary
general Khadim Hussain Dhalu is arrested in Jhang district.
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July 6: SSP activist
Muhammad Aslam Muawia sentenced to life imprisonment by a special
Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore for the January 11, 1998-Mominpura
graveyard massacre, in which 27 Shias were killed and 34 more injured.
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July 2: 12 SSP terrorists
arrested for allegedly planning attacks on religious places in Rawalpindi.
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May 22: Local SSP leader
killed by two unidentified armed assailants in Gulistan-e-Mustafa,
Karachi.
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May 17: Karachi Anti
Terrorism Court sentences two SSP cadres to life for killing 10
persons in an attack on a mosque in the Al-Falah Colony, Karachi.
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May 11: Front ranking
SSP leader Mehmood Madni arrested for the May 8-Karachi bomb blast
in, which 16 persons, including 11 French nationals, were killed.
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May 9: Maulana Ehsanul
Haq Farooqi, an SSP leader, arrested by Sialkot police for delivering
a speech against President Musharraf in Wadala Sindhian village,
Daska.
- May 5: SSP cadre killed by two unidentified gunmen in the Gulbahar
area of Karachi.
- April 27: A Karachi Anti-Terrorism court awards two death sentences
to an SSP activist in separate murder cases.
- April 15: Two SSP cadres indicted by a Karachi Anti-Terrorism Court
in a sectarian killing case in which 10 persons were killed and five
others injured in Al-Falah Colony, off Shahrea-i-Faisal.
- March 30: A review board of three Lahore High Court judges recommends
continued incarceration of SSP chief Maulana Azam Tariq.
- March 16: Five SSP cadres killed near Merik Sial in Jhang by a
group of 10 unidentified assailants.
- March 15: Karachi police arrests six SSP cadres allegedly involved
in approximately 27 major incidents of sectarian killings in Karachi,
including that of six doctors.
- March 13: North West Frontier Province (NWFP) government extends
detention of senior SSP leader Khalifa Abdul Qayyum for further 30
days.
- February 28: Police allege that the SSP was responsible for the
February 26-massacre at a Shiite mosque in Rawalpindi, in which 11
persons were killed and 14 others injured.
- February 11: SSP files formal review application before the government
seeking reversal of its proscription.
- January 15: In a crackdown on accounts of banned organisations,
SSP’s accounts are seized by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP).
- January 12: President Pervez Musharraf announces proscription of
the SSP during a televised address to the nation.
- January 5: 200 SSP activists arrested in a series of raids by security
agencies on January 4-5 in Sindh and Punjab provinces.
2001
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July 6: SSP activist
Muhammad Aslam Muawia sentenced to life imprisonment by a special
Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore for the January 11, 1998-Mominpura
graveyard massacre, in which 27 Shias were killed and 34 more injured.
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July 2: 12 SSP terrorists
arrested for allegedly planning attacks on religious places in Rawalpindi.
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May 22: Local SSP leader
killed by two unidentified armed assailants in Gulistan-e-Mustafa,
Karachi.
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May 17: Karachi Anti
Terrorism Court sentences two SSP cadres to life for killing 10
persons in an attack on a mosque in the Al-Falah Colony, Karachi.
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May 11: Front ranking
SSP leader Mehmood Madni arrested for the May 8-Karachi bomb blast
in, which 16 persons, including 11 French nationals, were killed.
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May 9: Maulana Ehsanul
Haq Farooqi, an SSP leader, arrested by Sialkot police for delivering
a speech against President Musharraf in Wadala Sindhian village,
Daska.
- December 30 – Five SSP cadres arrested
during raids by law enforcing authorities on the outfit’s Karachi
office.
- December 4 – SSP Karachi’s Finance Secretary,
Engineer Ilyas Zubair, voluntarily surrendered before the Chief of
Crime Investigations Agency (CIA), who later detained him under the
Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (MPO).
- October 28 – A police personnel and
17 members of the Christian community including five children were
killed and nine others injured when six unidentified gunmen opened
indiscriminate fire on a church in Model Town, Bahawalpur. The SSP
is suspected to be responsible for the massacre.
- October 19 – Pakistan authorities, in
response to anti-US protests, barred SSP chief Azam Tariq from entering
Sindh province where major rallies and protest demonstrations against
US air strikes in Afghanistan were taking place. The ban was applicable
for 30 days.
- October 16 –SSP leader Maulana Fazl-i-Ahad
said in Peshawar that the outfit had decided to send its cadres for
waging Jehad against the US. He indicated that a group of 80
SSP cadres were ready to leave for Afghanistan.
- October 15 – An SSP leader, Maulana
Allah Wasaya Siddiqi, said that US air strikes on the erstwhile Taliban
regime in Afghanistan "proved that America was the biggest terrorist
of the world."
- October 12 –SSP’s Senior Vice-President
Khalifa Abdul Qayyum speaking in Dera Ismail Khan said that the US
government had "proved itself to be a terrorist state." Commenting
on the air strikes against the erstwhile Taliban regime in Afghanistan,
he claimed that Osama bin Laden was only being used as an excuse and
the US was attempting to establish camps in the region.
- October 11 –At a protest rally in Peshawar,
SSP provincial chief Maulana Fazal Ahad said that the US should withdraw
from Afghanistan, failing which it would "taste fatal upset just like
former Soviet Union during Afghan Jihad." He also asked the cadres
to enlist their names with the SSP high command for waging Jehad
against ‘infidel forces’ and reiterated that the outfit would
fight with the Taliban side by side after getting an approval from
SSP central chief Azam Tariq.
- October 9 – SSP leader Syed Paryal Shah
said in Khairpur, that US action in Afghanistan was not a war against
Taliban but against Islam, and therefore, it was essential for the
Muslims to declare Jehad against the US and its allies.
- September 29 – A news report said that
38 SSP activists were arrested during the preceding nine months in
Dera Ismail Khan.
- September 16 – The SSP at a meeting
in Peshawar, said Muslims of Pakistan would not tolerate any assistance
by the Federal government to the USA in its possible attacks on the
erstwhile Taliban regime. While declaring the US as the ‘biggest criminal
in the world’, SSP leaders alleged that the terrorist acts in New
York and Washington DC were a conspiracy to defame Islam.
- September 15 – SSP Sindh chapter Vice
President Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem arrested from Karachi in connection
with two cases in which five persons, including four brothers, were
killed in 1995.
- August 14 – LeJ proscribed by President
Pervez Musharraf
- July 1 – Two unidentified gunmen at
the Basti Tareenabad in Dera Ismail Khan killed a SSP activist.
- June 23 – Two police personnel and an
activist of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) were injured in Gilgit
following an exchange of fire between security forces and activists
of the SSP and the Tanzeem Ahle Sunnat.
- May 21 – Various Sunni sectarian outfits
alleged that the country’s intelligence agencies were responsible
for the killing of Maulana Saleem Qadri, the Sunni Tehreek chief on
May 18, 2001. According to these outfits, the agencies were utilising
the SSP to trigger sectarian violence among the Shia, Sunni, Deoband
and Barelwi sects.
- May 21 – Four persons were killed in
separate incidents of sectarian clashes in Dera Ismail Khan. In the
first incident, an activist of the SSP, who was released from the
local prison a few days earlier, was killed. Official sources indicated
the involvement of Shia groups in the incident. Sources also said
that the violence erupted consequent to the arrest of a Shia leader,
Syed Hassan Ali Shah Kazmi, on a charge of allegedly delivering anti-state
speeches. In apparent retaliation, certain SSP activists killed a
Shia youth and injured two others. Police sources added that two more
persons were killed in the clashes on the same day.
- April 30 – A Karachi Anti-terrorism
Court holds two SSP activists guilty of killing a police personnel
and his son on February 22, 2001 and sentences them to death.
- April 3 – Eight SSP activists arrested
from Korangi in Karachi following clashes between two sectarian outfits.
- April – An anti-terrorism court sentenced
two SSP activists to death for killing a former Deputy Superintendent
of Police and his young son on February 22, 2001.
- March 12 – Nine persons including the
a local SSP chief were killed and 11 others injured as three unidentified
terrorists opened indiscriminate fire on a congregation at the Hayat-e-Islam
mosque in Lahore. According to official sources, the attack was carried
out in the most sensitive locality of Lahore where agencies like Garrison
Security Force, Military Police and others are located. Sources also
said that the attack was carried out despite tight security measures
adopted in view of the presence of Chief Executive General Pervez
Musharraf in the city. The mosque is administered by the SSP. Official
sources indicated that the attack could be in retaliation for the
March 4 sectarian violence at Sheikhupura. An SSP spokesperson, Qazi
Bahaur Rehman, alleged that the TJP was responsible for the massacre.
- March 4 – 13 persons, including two
police personnel, were killed and four others injured in a series
of four attacks by a group of six terrorists in Sheikhpura Four of
the terrorists were arrested. Official sources said that the killings
are alleged to be an outcome of SSP activist Haq Nawaz Jhangvi’s execution.
SSP Sheikhpura chief, Zahid Mahmood Qasmi however, denied the outfit’s
involvement in the attacks.
- March 2 – Two SSP activists arrested
from the Orangi Extension area in Karachi for their alleged involvement
in the killing of a TJP activist.
- March 1 – 13 persons were killed in
sectarian violence at Hangu in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Official sources maintained that this followed an incident in which
an unidentified person opened indiscriminate fire killing three persons
and injuring another. Other sources however held that the killings
were an aftermath of the execution of SSP activist Haq Nawaz Jhangvi.
- February 28 –SSP activist Haq Nawaz
Jhangvi was executed in Mianwali Jail, Lahore after being held guilty
for the December 1990 assassination of the Iranian Consul General,
Agha Sadiq Ganji. Police had arrested hundreds of SSP activists for
fear of violent protests after Jhangvi's execution and possible clashes
between rival sectarian groups from the majority Sunni and the minority
Shi'ite sects. However, one person was killed and six others injured
in an encounter between the protesting SSP activists and police at
Mohallah Piplianwala in Jhang on the same day of the execution. Later
at the funeral of Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, SSP leader Sheikh Hakim Ali,
while warning of countrywide protests, said, "The government is responsible
for killing our brother. It is done to please Iran."
- February 22 – A former Deputy Superintendent
of Police and his son killed. Later in April 2001 an anti-terrorism
court sentenced two SSP activists to death for the killings.
- February 15 – , SSP General-Secretary
Abdur Rauf Baloch arrested in the Gomal area of Dera Ismail Khan for
his alleged involvement in the killing of five persons in Fateh village,
on April 26, 1999.
2000
- November 18 – A Karachi anti-terrorism
court sentenced an SSP activist to a seven-year term for possessing
illegal arms and creating terror.
- November 5 – Two SSP activists were
killed and another injured when unidentified terrorists fired at them
in Mirpurkhas. The SSP blamed the TJP for the killing.
- October 22 – Two SSP activists killed
and eight others injured when two unidentified persons attacked their
van in Karachi. The next day, two activists of the TJP were arrested
for their suspected involvement in the killings.
- 1996 – A section comprising radical
and extremist elements of the SSP walked out of the outfit to form
the LeJ
- 1994 – 73 persons killed and more than
300 injured in Punjab’s worst year of violence. The SSP along with
several other Sunni and Shia organisations were suspected to have
participated in this violence.
- June 1992 – SSP activists for the first
time, use a rocket launcher in an attack which killed five police
personnel.
- December 1990 – Iran's Counsel General
in Lahore, Sadeq Ganji killed.
- February 1990 –SSP co-founder and chief,
Maulana Jhangvi killed
- 1988 – A leader of the Shia outfit,
Tehrik-Nifaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafaria (TNFJ) Arif Hussain Al-Hussaini killed.
- 1987 – Prominent Sunni leader Maulana
Habib-ur-Rehman Yazdani assassinated.
- 1986 – Prominent leader of the Sunni
Ahl-e-Hadith, Allama Ehsan Elahi Zaheer assassinated.
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