Posted on 01/02/2005 8:21:28 AM PST by Snapple
The HUM is a member of Osama bin Ladin's "Islamic World Front for the struggle against the Jews and the Crusaders"...Fazlur Rehman Khalil, one of the HUM's leaders signed bin Ladin's fatwa in February 1998 calling for attacks on US and Western interests.
Fazlur Rehman Khalil
Do not confuse him with a similarly named Pakistani Islamist opposition leader in the National Assembly, Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman.
Fazlur Rehman Khalil is NOT Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman.
This is about Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil NOT to be confused with Pakistani Islamist opposition leader in the National Assembly, Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman.
This will make your blood boil, but maybe there is something we don't know. The Pakistanis just released the head of HuM.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_19-12-2004_pg1_6
Maulana Khalil freed after 7 months in jail
By Mohammad Imran
ISLAMABAD: Security agencies released Mualana Fazlur Rehman Khalil, the chief of Jamiatul Ansar, formerly known as the Harkatul Mujahideen, late on Friday night after a seven-month detention.
“Maulana Khalil was detained for allegedly sending militants into Afghanistan,” sources told Daily Times. Security agencies picked up Maulana Khalil on May 20, 2004, from his residence, but talked about his arrest in August when the government arrested Qari Saifullah Akhtar from Dubai, sources said, adding that security agencies investigated the maulana thoroughly but could not prove that he was sending militants to Afghanistan.
“Maulana Khalil was also alleged to have sent militants to assassination President Pervez Musharraf in December last year in Rawalpindi,” sources added.
Security agencies allowed Maulana Khalil to talk to his family over the telephone during the first five months of his detention, but he could not contact them (family) during the last two months, sources said.
Maulana Farooq Kashmiri, a Jamiatul Ansar leader, had met Maulana Khalil four days ago, sources said, adding that United Jihad Council leaders also tried releasing the maulana. “During Maulana Khalil’s detention, security agencies also permitted his mother to meet him, but the meeting did not take place for unknown reasons,” sources added.
"Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil is NOT Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman."
At least I don't think they are the same!!
So many names and AKAs. So many different spellings.
Does anyone really know the scoop here????
12-21-04
"The [Pakistani]government [has] released Maulana Fazlur Rehman Khalil, who was a close friend of Osama Bin Laden."
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_21-12-2004_pg7_39
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_29-12-2004_pg7_8
December 29, 2004
Two Harkat men held in Chitral
PESHAWAR: Police said on Tuesday they had arrested two militants in connection with the weekend killing of two employees of Aga Khan Health Services.
Masked gunmen on Sunday stormed the office of the aid agency in Chitral, killing a security guard and a driver and setting fire to several vehicles.
Gul Mohammad Khan, a police officer in Chitral, said two activists of a banned Sunni Muslim group Harkat-ul Mujahideen had been detained on suspicion of involvement in the attack. The Aga Khan’s aid network runs health services in Chitral and other parts of northern Pakistan. reuters
Follow the latest killings (reportedly by HuM) at http://www.chitralnews.com
http://www.chitralnews.com/Latest%20New496.htm
Two Harkat men detained in Chitral
CHITRAL,29 Dec 04: Police have arrested two persons belonging to Harkat ul Mujahideen, in connection with the Saturday night killing of two workers of the AKHS in Chitral. Names of the the arrested persons were not however disclosed and the police seems tight lipped about giving out any more information in details.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_29-12-2004_pg3_1
EDITORIAL: Chitral trouble is symptomatic of deeper malaise
Four masked men killed two workers of the Aga Khan Health Services Office in Chitral on Monday December 27 and burnt four vehicles belonging to the charity organisation. The police have registered a case against the unknown assailants and have also arrested four persons belonging to “a banned organisation”. This kind of violence has happened in the area before but has gained momentum after the MMA campaign against the Aga Khan Foundation in the rest of the country. In the adjacent Northern Areas (Gilgit) the Aga Khan charity institutions have come under attack regularly in the past years after being targeted by the radical religious elements waging jihad in Kashmir.
Earlier this year, we had news about sectarian unrest in the North for almost six months. Schools were closed and there were instances of sporadic violence in areas where Shia and Ismaili populations are concentrated but where power and influence have passed to Sunni clerics. In Chitral, the Shia-Sunni tension dates back to 1988 when the Northern Areas were attacked by Pushtun lashkars. A retired commissioner of Gilgit wrote: “In April 1988 armed rioters from outside entered the Gilgit environs. Eleven villages around town were torched, their wooden structures burnt to ashes and valuable goods looted. Around 40 persons were killed. It was clear to the Gilgit civil administration that the raiders, who were tribals and mujahideen elements, could not have reached this remote place from Peshawar without someone’s blessing. The Frontier Constabulary, whose checkposts dot the Swat-Besham road and the Besham-Gilgit highway, did not act to intercept the raiders”.
That year General Zia ul Haq fired Prime Minister Mohammad Khan Junejo for failing to control violence. Today, the MMA clerics are openly threatening ‘action’ against the Aga Khan Foundation because they don’t want it to organise a better examination system in the country. There is no doubt that the fiery sermons delivered down-country are having their effect in the North and have intensified sectarian conflict in Chitral too. What are the grounds for the MMA’s fury? If you wave the agitprop aside, there are no grounds at all.
It is quite obvious that religious prejudice was already simmering and simply wanted an outlet. The clergy has therefore decided to confront the Aga Khan Foundation on a very flimsy pretext. This is what happened.
The Aga Khan University Examination Board (AKU-EB) has been established through an ordinance to give the country an efficient system of exams that all students can afford. This was done in view of the growing popularity of the GCSE and “A” level exams conducted by the University of Cambridge in Pakistan. Each student taking these exams has to cough up around Rs 20,000. After the Board’s programme comes into force an examinee will pay only Rs 1,500 if he comes from a non-profit-making school and Rs 3,000 if he belongs to a private school. The standard of examination will be as high as the Cambridge one, which is taken by our students because it is reliable and is recognised in the private sector. It should be noted that the AKU-EB ordinance applies so far only to the private sector and the federal institutions and is completely voluntary. (Education being a provincial subject, the system will apply to state-run schools only after the provinces agree.) If an institution is unwilling to submit to the new system it is free to stay away. How does that threaten the Pakistani society? The truth is that once the programme gets going everyone will enlist in it because of its efficiency.
Although the MMA, led by Jamaat-e-Islami, has no past record of criticising the Cambridge system in the country, the Jamaat now says the AKU-EB is set to “secularise” the country by the introduction of this system. How is that possible through mere conduct of such exams? The ordinance establishing the AKU-EB says quite clearly: “The Examination Board shall follow the national curriculum and syllabi.” There is no hidden reference here to any presumed secular brainwash as feared by the clergy. So what is the truth of the matter? The truth is that a hidden desire to exclude one more community from the pale of Islam persists after what the religious fanatics have done to non-Sunni majority locations in the North. What was happening so far in the periphery is now threatening to come to the centre. That is why General Pervez Musharraf must take firm action against the elements which have attacked the Aga Khan Health Services Office in Chitral and are working under a scheme to destabilise the country by exacerbating its sectarian conflict. That is also why he should seriously think of displacing the reactionary MMA with a liberal party in his political affections. *
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I am trying to do a ping. Did it work?
Perhaps you can untangle these names.
[The media are in Chitral. Hopefully the truth will come out.]
http://www.chitralnews.com/Latest%20New504.htm
Killers to be unmasked soon: DPO
CHITRAL, 03 Jan 05 : District Police Officer Muhammad Saeed Khan has said that sectarianism has been routed out from Chitral. Replying to a question about the recent attack on the AKHS, he said that this act was condemned by all sections of the society in Chitral. He said that investigations were continuing and the killers of the two workers would soon be unmasked. The DPO was talking to newsmen in Chitral. He said the police has performed better this year as compared to the previous years and he quoted various figures to prove his claim. (Saifur Rehman Aziz)
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