Dreaded terrorist Malik Ishaq released by Pakistan govt

[Not Sure]

Dreaded terrorist Malik Ishaq released by Pakistan govt

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By: Press Trust of India | Lahore | Posted: December 23, 2014 4:41 pm | Updated: December 23, 2014 4:56 pm


Malik Ishaq, dreaded chief of banned LeJ that has carried out attacks on minority Shias and the mastermind of the assault on the Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009, has been released after three years in jail with the Pakistan government not seeking an extension of his detention.

Ishaq has been under detention for the last three years under a public security order for making “provocative” speeches. The government had detained Ishaq under Maintenance of Public Order (16 MPO), the same law under which key planner of 2008 Mumbai attacks Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi is being held after being granted bail by an anti-terrorism court.

The Supreme Court had granted Ishaq bail in July 2011 after which he was held under 16 MPO. Ishaq’s release comes even as the government considers “radical changes” to tackle militancy after the Taliban school massacre in which 148 people, mostly children, were killed in Peshawar.

Ishaq’s release comes despite Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s pledge to eradicate the “cancer” of sectarianism. The Punjab government yesterday produced Ishaq before a provincial review board comprising three judges of the Lahore High Court headed by Justice Manzoor in a high security here.


The officials of the home department, however, did not seek extension in his detention. “Appeal for further extension in detention of Malik Ishaq is dismissed as withdrawn,” the review board said. “Malik Ishaq is a free man now,” an official said. LeJ has claimed responsibility for a series of bloody attacks, including two bombings targeting Shiites in Quetta in 2013 that killed about 200 people.


Ishaq was also named as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” by the US earlier this year. The Shia community has strongly criticised the government for not seeking extension in the detention of Ishaq. Ishaq, the influential co-founder of a Sipah-e-Sahaba, a breakaway group that is also linked with al-Qaeda and the Taliban, had told an Urdu daily in 1997 that he was involved in the killing of 102 Shias.

He was arrested the same year, and eventually charged in connection with 44 different cases, including the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in March 2009. The Sri Lankan cricket team attack took place on March 3, 2009, when a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers, part of a larger convoy, was fired upon by 12 gunmen, near the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.

Six members of the Sri Lankan cricket team were injured. Six Pakistani policemen and two civilians were also killed in the attack.


Not sure if anyone remembers, but last time when he was granted bail, within a week he made a highly inflammable speech against the Shia community that resulted in killing of over two dozen Shia pilgrims in Quetta. All that when many columnists had warned against the same before he applied for bail.

 

[TejasMk3]

I've heard that LeJ was actually funded by the central Pak govt, and now arab (Saudi in particular) funding...so it's not very surprising that he escapes any real punishment.

 

[OrionHunter]

He joins the legions of terrorists who have been released from Pak jails. So much for Pakistan fighting terror!! It's business as usual, but it's come faster than I thought after the Peshawar pogrom.

The war on terror within Pakistan has become a farce of galactic proportions.

 

[Not Sure]

I've heard that LeJ was actually funded by the central Pak govt, and now arab (Saudi in particular) funding...so it's not very surprising that he escapes any real punishment.

I never saw much overt support for Lashkar e Jhangvi in Pakistan. It has harmed Pakistani government and people time and again and is considered a terrorist organization in Pakistan. In fact, Musharraf had banned the organization in 2001 or 2002.

 

[rockstar08]

which organization he Runs ??

 

[punit]

so much so for avenging the blood of children. its an insult in the memory of the kids.

 

[TejasMk3]

I never saw much overt support for Lashkar e Jhangvi in Pakistan. It has harmed Pakistani government and people time and again and is considered a terrorist organization in Pakistan. In fact, Musharraf had banned the organization in 2001 or 2002.

That is true, but prior to that the Pakistani state was funding them,

Refer:Lashkar-e-Jhangvi | Mapping Militant Organizations

LeJ has had a long relationship with the Pakistani state. Beginning in the 1980s, LeJ's parent organization SSP, and then later LeJ itself, received financial support from the central Pakistani government.[6]
This funding was intended to counter the rising influence of Iran's revolutionary Shiism, as well as to use the groups as an asymmetric element of its strategy toward India.[7] LeJ and most other Sunni militant groups in Pakistan gladly accepted financial support, but cooperated only when the government’s goals accorded with their own.

The Pakistani government began cracking down on LeJ in 1998 and formally banned the group in 2001 (and SSP in 2002). The groups responded by directly targeting top Pakistani leadership (first prime minister Nawaz Sharif and later general Pervez Musharraf) and later expanded their attacks to broader state interests. Under the government of Asif Ali Zardari, a Shiite, LeJ and SSP have stepped up their attacks and become increasingly involved in a wider militant movement that continues to target non-Deobandi minorities and the state itself.


The arab sponsorship of these guys also ties into the anti-shia angle.

 

[Not Sure]

which organization he Runs ??

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

That is true, but prior to that the Pakistani state was funding them,

Of course man, none of these would have existed had there not been State funding and overwhelming public support.

In fact, the TTP too is now warring with the Pakistani Army because the funds and support got diverted to Kashmir specific groups, esp the LeT. Before that, the TTP had enjoyed overwhelming support of the Pakistani Army, the government, and the public too (TTP had promised to help liberate Kashmir from the clutches of Hindu India).

Also, LeJ and Sipah-e-Sahaba goons are sustained by numerous by politicians so they can be used to intimidate others, esp during the elections. In the very last election, the AK waving Sipah e Sahaba guys, mostly clad in all black, were in high demand and numerous reports and pictures had come out where people had sighted them making rounds in open jeeps and small trucks always heading in the direction where polling was going on.

 

[xyxmt]

Maskharey in govt, Maskharey in opposition, Mashkharey in judiciary, Mashkharey in media, Maskharey in the forces. The entire nation of mashkharey is run by maskharey and the whole world is enjoying the comedy show. Any other country will hang him only for having that criminal looking phatkari face but maskhrey wont do it.

 

[Farah Sohail]

SHAME

 

[Cheetah786]

Dreaded terrorist Malik Ishaq released by Pakistan govt

File photo (AP)



By: Press Trust of India | Lahore | Posted: December 23, 2014 4:41 pm | Updated: December 23, 2014 4:56 pm


Malik Ishaq, dreaded chief of banned LeJ that has carried out attacks on minority Shias and the mastermind of the assault on the Sri Lankan cricket team in 2009, has been released after three years in jail with the Pakistan government not seeking an extension of his detention.

Ishaq has been under detention for the last three years under a public security order for making “provocative” speeches. The government had detained Ishaq under Maintenance of Public Order (16 MPO), the same law under which key planner of 2008 Mumbai attacks Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi is being held after being granted bail by an anti-terrorism court.

The Supreme Court had granted Ishaq bail in July 2011 after which he was held under 16 MPO. Ishaq’s release comes even as the government considers “radical changes” to tackle militancy after the Taliban school massacre in which 148 people, mostly children, were killed in Peshawar.

Ishaq’s release comes despite Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s pledge to eradicate the “cancer” of sectarianism. The Punjab government yesterday produced Ishaq before a provincial review board comprising three judges of the Lahore High Court headed by Justice Manzoor in a high security here.


The officials of the home department, however, did not seek extension in his detention. “Appeal for further extension in detention of Malik Ishaq is dismissed as withdrawn,” the review board said. “Malik Ishaq is a free man now,” an official said. LeJ has claimed responsibility for a series of bloody attacks, including two bombings targeting Shiites in Quetta in 2013 that killed about 200 people.


Ishaq was also named as a “Specially Designated Global Terrorist” by the US earlier this year. The Shia community has strongly criticised the government for not seeking extension in the detention of Ishaq. Ishaq, the influential co-founder of a Sipah-e-Sahaba, a breakaway group that is also linked with al-Qaeda and the Taliban, had told an Urdu daily in 1997 that he was involved in the killing of 102 Shias.

He was arrested the same year, and eventually charged in connection with 44 different cases, including the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in March 2009. The Sri Lankan cricket team attack took place on March 3, 2009, when a bus carrying Sri Lankan cricketers, part of a larger convoy, was fired upon by 12 gunmen, near the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore.

Six members of the Sri Lankan cricket team were injured. Six Pakistani policemen and two civilians were also killed in the attack.


Not sure if anyone remembers, but last time when he was granted bail, within a week he made a highly inflammable speech against the Shia community that resulted in killing of over two dozen Shia pilgrims in Quetta. All that when many columnists had warned against the same before he applied for bail.

What are you talking about. man this is what Saudis man in pakistan said.

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said Tuesday that each and every Terrorist of Saudis, will be protected by the state, irrespective of how many he has killed , sect or caste, that aren't Wahhabi are fair target. And that no cause is holier than protecting the life and property of the Terrorist.

PM Nawaz was addressing a meeting in Islamabad to discuss matters relating to the scourge of terrorism in the country.

“We cannot forget and forgive atrocities committed by barbarians in Peshawar, Quetta and Wagha,” the prime minister said. “There will be no discrimination and exception in our war against terrorism.”

After the speech he meet Malik and congratulated him on job well done.

 

[jbond197]

Good Terrorist!!!!

 

[Amaa'n]

don't worry he will be going back once he has sucked on blood of some shias ----@Horus wth is this now

 

[Bratva]

He joins the legions of terrorists who have been released from Pak jails. So much for Pakistan fighting terror!! It's business as usual, but it's come faster than I thought after the Peshawar pogrom.

The war on terror within Pakistan has become a farce of galactic proportions.

I didn't see such reaction when Swami Anand was granted bail from Indian courts ?

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia





Of course man, none of these would have existed had there not been State funding and overwhelming public support.

In fact, the TTP too is now warring with the Pakistani Army because the funds and support got diverted to Kashmir specific groups, esp the LeT. Before that, the TTP had enjoyed overwhelming support of the Pakistani Army, the government, and the public too (TTP had promised to help liberate Kashmir from the clutches of Hindu India).

Also, LeJ and Sipah-e-Sahaba goons are sustained by numerous by politicians so they can be used to intimidate others, esp during the elections. In the very last election, the AK waving Sipah e Sahaba guys, mostly clad in all black, were in high demand and numerous reports and pictures had come out where people had sighted them making rounds in open jeeps and small trucks always heading in the direction where polling was going on.

keep that constipated conspiracy theories away from that.

 

[Not Sure]

Good Terrorist!!!!

Mukhde pe itna noor hai ki meri aankhein chaka-chaundh ho gayi