PAKISTAN: UNIDENTIFIED GUNMEN OPEN FIRE OF A CAR CARRYING A SUNNI MUSLIM CLERIC IN KARACHI - KILLING THE CLERIC'S SON

Record ID: 377112

  • Title: PAKISTAN: UNIDENTIFIED GUNMEN OPEN FIRE OF A CAR CARRYING A SUNNI MUSLIM CLERIC IN KARACHI - KILLING THE CLERIC'S SON
  • Date: 17th July 2005
  • Summary: (BN01) KARACHI, PAKISTAN (JULY 17, 2005) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) 1. HOSPITAL EXTERIOR 0.01 2. VARIOUS OF INJURED CLERIC MAULANA MUHAMMAD AHMAD MADANI (2 SHOTS) 0.11 3. VARIOUS OF CLERIC RECEIVING MEDICAL TREATMENT (2 SHOTS) 0.18 4. FELLOW CLERICS COVERING MAULANA'S FACE DUE TO BAN ON PICTURE IN ISLAM 0.23 5. SOUNDBITE: (U
  • Embargoed: 1st August 2005 13:00
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  • Location: KARACHI, PAKISTAN
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Reuters ID: LVA5T25DU4NTRGLF1GORAVW9SNUA
  • Story Text: Gunmen kill son of Sunni muslim cleric.



    Unidentified gunmen opened fire on the car of a
    Sunni Muslim cleric in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi
    on Sunday (July 17) in a suspected sectarian
    attack, injuring the cleric while killing his teenage son.

    The injured cleric, identified as Maulana Muhammad
    Ahmad Madani, was a half brother of Maulana Azam Tariq, the
    slain leader of the banned militant group
    Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, City Police Chief Tariq Jamil said.

    Jamil told Reuters Maulana Madani had been once an
    active member of the Sipah-e-Sahaba but had now
    disassociated from the group.

    Police said two motorcyclists intercepted the cleric's
    car while he was on his way to attend a preaching session
    near his home in the city's middle-class Buffer Zone
    neighbourhood, and opened fire. As a result his son was
    killed on the spot, while Madani was injured in his
    arm.

    Sipah-e-Sahaba (Soldiers of Mohammad's Companions) was
    one of seven Islamic militant groups outlawed by President
    Pervez Musharraf - five of them in a crackdown on religious
    violence in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks in
    New York and Washington.

    It has been accused of involvement in a wave of
    violence between Pakistan's dominant Sunni Muslims and
    Shi'ites, who account for about 15 percent of the 149
    million population.

    Azam Tariq, its supreme leader, was killed near the
    capital Islamabad in October 2003 while on his way to
    attend a parliamentary session.

    Thousands of people have been killed in tit-for-tat
    attacks by Sunni Muslim and Shi'ite Muslim militants over
    the past decade and half. More than 100 people
    have been killed in the past year alone. Most Muslims in
    Pakistan are Sunnis. Shi'ites account for around 15 percent
    of the country's 150 million population.
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