"35 to 40 armed men wearing orange uniforms raided an anti-narcotics police station..."
Mentally disturbed or drugged?
Shahbaz Khan is probably mentally disturbed and his followers are probably weak personalities under his influence.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2005\12\17\story_17-12-2005_pg7_4
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Another disciple of 'Imam Mehdi' dies
By Shahnawaz Khan
LAHORE: Another follower of a man who had claimed to be Imam Mehdi died at Allied Hospital in Faisalabad on Friday.
Sheikh Tahir was shot in the head during a shootout with police on Motorway III, 1.5 kilometres from the Saeeyan Interchange.
The shootout had ensued when Shahbaz Khan, the self-proclaimed Imam Mehdi, and 29 followers had stopped a bus on the motorway and held the 40 passengers aboard hostage. Khan had announced a new religion, Deen-e-Younas, and demanded a meeting with President Pervez Musharraf.
Allied Hospital MS Dr Samiullah said two men injured in the encounter, Khan's disciple Naveed and a passer-by Muhammad Younas, were out of danger.
Meanwhile, clerics in Faisalabad blasted Khan during Friday sermons and demanded that the government publicly hang him. Police raided several places across to arrest Khan's followers, including a property-dealer who had provided him a house in the city to carry out his activities. Police sources said that Khan had recently returned from the United Kingdom, where he worked as a butcher. They said that Khan and a few followers were originally members of a group led by Riaz Ahmad Gohar Shahi, who had declared himself 'Imam Mehdi' in 1998.
Sources said that interrogators were investigating why Khan had adopted criminal means to spread his 'religion', and had chosen the motorway when they could have escaped easily using other routes. They said that there was confusion over why Khan had himself come to negotiate with the authorities.
Sources said that the investigators are focusing on two of Khan's demands: the meeting with President Musharraf and the media, and government action against the Gohar Shahi group.
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For Freepers collecting names, his arrested followers are: Khizar Hayat of Okara, Taj Din of Karachi, Zahid of Toba Tek Singh, Yaseen of Faisalabad, Mukhtar Ahmad of Toba Tek Singh, Muhammad Ishaq of Khanewal, Talib Hussain of Faisalabad, Tahir Mahmood of Toba Tek Singh, Zafar Iqbal of Toba Tek Singh, Atiqur Rehman of Toba Tek Singh, Muhammad Ilyas of Faisalabad, Mahmoodul Hassan of Toba Tek Singh, Taj Ansari of Karachi, Ejaz Ahmad of Pakpattan, Imran of Okara, Shehbaz Ahmad of Karachi, Javed Iqbal of Toba Tek Singh, Naveed Ali Shah of Karachi, Muhammad Iqbal of Toba Tek Singh, Muhammad Ismail of Toba Tek Singh, Shaukat Ali of Sumandari, Abdul Rehman of Gojra, Abid Hussain of Toba Tek Singh, Sajid Ali of Karachi, Muhammad Iqbal of Pakpattan, Baba Shafi of Toba Tek Singh, Tahir of Faisalabad, Muhammad Naveed of Toba Tek Singh and Shehbaz Ahmad of Toba Tek Singh.
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Naturally, this latest Mehdi is not found of his competitor the Gohar Shahi " Pictures of Sarkar Gohar Shahi in the Moon, the Sun, the Black Stone and various other places are the Divine signs that clearly indicate that His Holiness Gohar Shahi is the awaited Imam Mehdi." (but at least GS is an opponent of bin Laden et al. and is supporting the West, maybe it is a mix of Islam and Hinduism?)
http://www.goharshahi.com/
According to this article
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_8-7-2004_pg7_43 Riaz Gohar Shahi was arrested under the charges of the blasphemy law and was later murdered in jail because of his controversial religious ideas.