Brig Ali Khan, four Army officers convicted over Hizbut Tahrir links

[Jango]

Rawalpindi: The court martial proceedings of Brigadier Ali Khan, Major Inayat Aziz, Major Iftikhar, Major Sohail Akbar and Major Jawad Baseer, who were facing charges of having links with the banned outfit Hizbut Tahrir, were completed on Friday. All four accused have been convicted in the case, ISPR statement said.

The Field General Court Marshal (FGCM) has awarded a sentence of five years Rigorous Imprisonment (RI) to Brigadier Ali Khan.

Major SohailAkbar was awarded 3 years RI while Major Jawad Baseer was sentenced to 2 years RI, whereas Major Inayat Aziz and Major Iftikhar have been awarded 1 year 6 months RI each.

All four convicts posses the right to appeal against their conviction before the Army court of appeals according to Pakistan Army Act, ISPR statement added.

Brigadier Khan was also accused of being involved in a conspiring to topple the government, trying to instigate a mutiny within the army and planning an attack on the GHQ.

The court martial’s proceedings against Ali started last year in December.

Khan was arrested a year ago and faced charges of conspiring with four other officers and a British member of the Hizbut Tahrir to recruit officers to the group including the commander of the army’s 111 Brigade, which covers the capital and has been historically linked to army coups.

During the seven-month long proceedings, five military officers recorded their testimonies from prosecutor’s side.

The officers had claimed that the accused, Ali, provoked them for mutiny against the civil leadership

Brig Ali Khan, four Army officers convicted over Hizbut Tahrir links | DAWN.COM

 

[Imran Khan]

good over and all now this matter throw in dustbin forever . those who did wrong they punished .

 

[Armstrong]

Why wasn't Capital Punishment on the cards ? Do you know what these 'Hizbutahrir' fellows say about 'Jinnah' ? And how much they corrupt Muslim youth !

 

[Damadji]

Pakistan army convicts 5 for links with extremists

Pakistan military court jails officers for extremist ties - chicagotribune.com

1 Brigadier and 4 Major with extremist link proved is a very very grave situation.

And it reflects the danger ahead as international community, US and India regularly talk about the action which should be taken against the terrorist supporters/facilitators in the Pak Army

 

[Haseebullah]

He deserved more!
BTW what id RI?is there any difference between it and normal imprisonment!

 

[Jango]

RI means that along with sitting in a cage for the time, you have to do some work. Like doing some masonry, and doing some manual labour. That is the meaning in civilian jails.

in Military jails, it is something along the same lines, like doing some community work, only the hard kind.

 

[mjnaushad]

Pakistan army convicts 5 for links with extremists

Pakistan military court jails officers for extremist ties - chicagotribune.com

1 Brigadier and 4 Major with extremist link proved is a very very grave situation.

And it reflects the danger ahead as international community, US and India regularly talk about the action which should be taken against the terrorist supporters/facilitators in the Pak Army

and they are trialed and punished arent they.......pathetic troll

 

[Myth_buster_1]

Why wasn't Capital Punishment on the cards ? Do you know what these 'Hizbutahrir' fellows say about 'Jinnah' ? And how much they corrupt Muslim youth !

Was Jinnah a god or a prophet?

 

[A.Muqeet khan]

HE MAY NOT BE A PROPHET BUT TO ME HE WAS NO LESS .

 

[niaz]

An excellent article about this problem.

Infiltrating the ranksFrom the Newspaper |

FIVE army officers, including a brigadier, have been court-martialled and handed down prison sentences for their links to an extremist organisation, Hizbut Tahrir. Whenever the subject of religious extremism within the army’s officer corps and its rank and file comes up, opinion tends to break down into two extremes. One side argues that it points to some sort of creeping coup, a pernicious radicalisation of the armed forces that threatens Pakistani state and society given the army’s influence over national security and foreign policy. The other side argues that whatever instances of radicalised officers have come to the fore, they are isolated incidents and dealt with professionally and quickly and as such pose no threat to discipline and unity of command in the armed forces. Arguably, neither side is right.

Policy choices aside, the armed forces are relatively well-disciplined and internal checks and controls are fairly strong. While it is an insular institution, there is reason to believe that neither is a serious rebellion inspired by Islamist causes likely, nor would it succeed were a small group of officers to attempt one. Hysterical opinion and analysis in the international media that appear occasionally and decry the imminent takeover of Pakistan by radical Islamists directly or by proxy via its armed forces is just that: hysterical and far removed from reality.

But that does not mean the armed forces do not have a very real problem within their ranks. While information is tightly controlled, there are enough dots to connect that paint a picture that is reasonably worrying: be it numerous refusals by soldiers to fight militants and terrorists in Fata and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, or regular investigations and arrests of officers suspected of extremist affiliations or intermittent plots to launch attacks against the army leadership that were foiled before or during execution, the Pakistan armed forces do have an extremism problem. Unpalatable as the suggestion may be for its leadership, it is more than likely that the army’s security paradigm has helped create a problem within its own ranks. When patronage of or sympathy towards militant Islamist groups is part of the army high command’s strategy for protecting this country from perceived external threats, it is almost inevitable that what is embraced as a hard-nosed policy by some will be embraced by others for the ideology that keeps the fires of hate burning. And then there are the effects on wider society — from where the next generations of army officers have been recruited — which is increasingly susceptible to right-wing and extremist rhetoric and propaganda. Acknowledging the problem is the first step towards addressing it. Denial could sink the armed forces, and the country too.

Infiltrating the ranks | DAWN.COM

 

[Myth_buster_1]

HE MAY NOT BE A PROPHET BUT TO ME HE WAS NO LESS .

And we wonder why Pakistan is facing wrath of Allah because its people displays the signs of disbelief and are in state of jahiliyya. As for Jinnah being a prophet for you, for me he was just a british tool and a product of British empire.
Pakistan needs to STOP deceiving Muslims that its a "Islamic" state because it is NOT!

 

[Armstrong]

Was Jinnah a god or a prophet?

Neither...basss baaap hai mera !

 

[Rafi]

And we wonder why Pakistan is facing wrath of Allah because its people displays the signs of disbelief and are in state of jahiliyya. As for Jinnah being a prophet for you, for me he was just a british tool and a product of British empire.
Pakistan needs to STOP deceiving Muslims that its a "Islamic" state because it is NOT!

Take your takfiri BS somewhere else.

 

[Myth_buster_1]

Take your takfiri BS somewhere else.

For that Pakistan needs to STOP associating itself with Islam first.

Neither...basss baaap hai mera !

Your real baap will not be happy to hear that.