Showing posts with label Pervez Musharraf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pervez Musharraf. Show all posts

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Suicide squads ready to kill Musharraf: Taliban

KABUL (PAN): The Pakistani Taliban on Saturday threatened to assassinate former military dictator Gen. Pervez Musharraf on his return home from exile.
A spokesman for the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) told Dawn newspaper that the organisation had set up squads of suicide bombers and snipers to kill the retired general.

Ehsanullah Ehsan said: “Suicide bombers are being trained and assigned to assassinate him.” Adnan Rasheed, who took part in a botched life attempt on Musharraf, has been tasked with training the suicide squads.

A former technician of the Pakistan Air Force, Rasheed was awarded the death penalty by a military court for masterminding the December 2003 attack. However, he managed to flee the Bannu jail on April 15, 2012.

After being granted pre-arrest bail by three provincial courts, Musharraf is scheduled to return to Pakistan on Sunday from Dubai. He intends to take part in the parliamentary elections slated for May 11.

According to Reuters, Rasheed said in a video: "The mujahideen of Islam have prepared a special squad to send Musharraf to hell. There are suicide bombers, snipers, a special assault unit and a close combat team."

from Pajhwok
Mar 23, 2013 - 12:57   

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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Banning of Largest Islamic Extremist Group in Pakistan

Pakistan’s government has issued orders banning Ahle Sunnah Wal Jamaat Islamist group. The group was first banned in 2002 by the former Pakistani President General Pervez Musharaf. The organization’s activists, after the last ban, began to function underground and carry out attacks across Pakistan.

The pro-Alqaeda group was formerly known as the Sipah-e-Sahaba (Soldiers of the Companions of the Prophet) who has been convicted of attacks on Pakistan’s minor communities, mainly the Shia Muslims. Pakistani officials allege that SSP has been behind several militant attacks on Pakistan, including the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The group has recently renamed itself Ahle Sunnah Wal Jammat and trying to act like a mainstream political party.

The group has held rallies in major cities of Pakistan against the US and the West, calling on the government to cut off ties with them. The US summoned the Pakistan government to ban the group, after the group’s largest anti-US rally in Karachi.

The activists find the ban outrageous and see it as an orchestration of America and its supporters, enforcing their will on Pakistan.

from KHAAMA
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