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Azam Tariq (religious Leader)
Azam Tariq ( ur, اعظم طارق March 1962 – 6 October 2003) was the leader of the politico-religious organisation Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, a Deobandi organization, which was officially banned by the government of Pakistan in August 2001. On 26 June 2018, Pakistan lifted the ban. After his assassination in 2003, Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi was selected as the president of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan. Early life and education Tariq was born to a poor Arain farmer Mohammad Fateh in village, Chak No 111/7R, Chichawatni. The family is originally from Nakodar, Jalandhar. He studied at a local madrassa and then enrolled in the Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia in Banuri Town, Karachi. Career In August 2001, Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf banned seven alleged Islamic organizations, including Sipah-e-Sahaba, and Azam Tariq was arrested and jailed on charges of terrorism. Azam Tariq was elected three times to the National Assembly of Pakistan in Jhang Sadr, even though his constitu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP, , Guardians of the Prophet's Companions), renamed to Millat-e-Islamia, is a Islamist organisation in Pakistan, which also functioned as a political party. It broke away from the main Deobandi Sunni organisation Jamiatul Ulema-e-Islam in 1985. Established in Jhang by Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, it was banned by President Pervez Musharraf in 2002 as a terrorist organization under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997.B. Raman"Musharraf's Ban: An Analysis" ''South Asia Analysis Group'', Paper no. 395, 18 January 2002 In March 2012, the government of Pakistan banned Sipah-e-Sahaba again. The government of the United Kingdom banned the group earlier in 2001. On 26 June 2018, before that year’s election, the Government of Pakistan lifted the ban on Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan. Many Incident causes On August 2019 Sabzazar Lahore Division Leader Hafiz Owais Akram was criticized for doing social work against them and then acquitted him of high support. Their main current ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allama Banuri Town
Allama Banuri Town is a residential and commercial area in Karachi, originally named "New Town". It was renamed Allama Banuri town in honour of the hadith scholar Muhammad Yousuf Banuri. Banuri had established a religious institute by the name of Jamia Uloom ul Islamia, a world-known Deobandi madrassa. References {{Neighbourhoods of Karachi Neighbourhoods of Karachi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1962 Births
Year 196 ( CXCVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dexter and Messalla (or, less frequently, year 949 '' Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 196 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Emperor Septimius Severus attempts to assassinate Clodius Albinus but fails, causing Albinus to retaliate militarily. * Emperor Septimius Severus captures and sacks Byzantium; the city is rebuilt and regains its previous prosperity. * In order to assure the support of the Roman legion in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul. * Hadrian's wall in Britain is partially destroyed. China * First year of the '' Jian'an era of the Chinese Han Dynasty. * Emperor Xian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isar-ul-Haq Qasmi
Isar ul Haq Qasmi (who died in 1991) was a Pakistani Islamic cleric, preacher and a member of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan. He had been member of the National Assembly of Pakistan between 1990 and 1993 representing Jhang constituency. Born in 1964 to a family which migrated from Ambala and settled in Samundri, Punjab, at the Partition, with a father who worked in the Middle East for years (like many SSP members), he was educated in three madrasas in Lahore, and at first went for a business career but then decided to become khatib (preacher) in an Okara mosque from 1985 onward, where he also established a madrasa, and he would soon gain a reputation for his clashes with the local police, before moving to Jhang at the request of Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, to preach in one of the market-towns of the district. He was elected to the National Assembly of Pakistan as a candidate of Islami Jamhoori Ittehad (IJI) in the 1990 Pakistani general election. He received 62,486 and defeated Nawab Amanulla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haq Nawaz Jhangvi
Haq Nawaz Jhangvi ( ur, حق نواز جھنگوی, ''Ḥaq Nawāz Jhangvī''; 1952 – 23 February 1990) was a Pakistani cleric who founded the Anjumane Sipahe Sahaba on 6 September 1986. Biography Haq Nawaz Jhangvi was born in 1952 in Chela, a village in the Jhang District of Punjab, Pakistan, into a small land-holding family of the Jat-Sipra clan, and he memorized the Qur'an by heart in two years before studying Qur'anic recitation and Arabic grammar and pursuing higher Islamic studies at the ''Darul Ulum'' Kabirwala, where he spent five years, and ''Khair ul Madariss'' Multan, where he spent seven years mainly focusing on hadith, becoming an imam at a Toba Tek Singh mosque and later a khatib in a Jhang mosque, in 1973. Jhangvi joined the Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam during that time, and before he began focusing his preaching against Shia, he was active in the Khatm-i Nabuwwat movement against Ahmadis. After the 1979 Iranian Revolution, Jhangvi began attacking the Iran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hadith
Ḥadīth ( or ; ar, حديث, , , , , , , literally "talk" or "discourse") or Athar ( ar, أثر, , literally "remnant"/"effect") refers to what the majority of Muslims believe to be a record of the words, actions, and the silent approval of the Islamic prophet Muhammad as transmitted through chains of narrators. In other words, the ḥadīth are transmitted reports attributed to what Muhammad said and did. Hadith have been called by some as "the backbone" of Islamic civilization, J.A.C. Brown, ''Misquoting Muhammad'', 2014: p.6 and for many the authority of hadith as a source for religious law and moral guidance ranks second only to that of the Quran (which Muslims hold to be the word of God revealed to Muhammad). Most Muslims believe that scriptural authority for hadith comes from the Quran, which enjoins Muslims to emulate Muhammad and obey his judgements (in verses such as , ). While the number of verses pertaining to law in the Quran is relatively few, hadith are co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Investigation Agency
The Federal Investigation Agency ( ur, ; reporting name: FIA) is a border control, criminal investigation, counter-intelligence and security agency under the control of the Interior Secretary of Pakistan, tasked with investigative jurisdiction on undertaking operations against terrorism, espionage, federal crimes, smuggling as well as infringement and other specific crimes. Codified under the Constitution of Pakistan in 1974, the institution functions under the Ministry of Interior (MoI). The FIA also undertakes international operations with the close co-operation and co-ordination of Interpol. Headquartered in Islamabad, the agency has various branch and field offices located in all major cities throughout Pakistan. Objectives and mission statements The FIA's main goal and priority is to protect the nation's interests and defend Pakistan, to uphold and enforce criminal law, and law enforcement in the country. Its current mission statement is: Departments and priorities ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aljazeera
Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera Media Network. The flagship of the network, its station identification, is ''Al Jazeera.'' The patent holding is a " private foundation for public benefit" under Qatari law. Under this organizational structure, the parent receives funding from the government of Qatar but maintains its editorial independence. In June 2017, the Saudi, Emirati, Bahraini, and Egyptian governments insisted on the closure of the entire conglomerate as one of thirteen demands made to the Government of Qatar during the Qatar diplomatic crisis. The channel has been criticised by some organisations as well as nations such as Saudi Arabia for being "Qatari propaganda". Etymology In Arabic, ' literally means "the island". However, it refers here to the Arabian Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imtiaz Gul
The Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) is a Pakistani, Islamabad-based independent non-profit think tank A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture. Most think tanks are non-governmenta ... founded by civil society activists to conduct research and advocacy on democratic governance, regional peace and security, human rights, and counter-radicalization. CRSS was founded in 2007 by journalist and writer Imtiaz Gul.Pakistan: Before and After Osama International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague. Retrieved 2016-01-05. The CRSS specializes in communication to impart information to people in conflict- and disaster-hit areas. The hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 Quetta Mosque Bombing
On 4 July 2003, 53 Hazara Shias were killed and at least 65 others were injured when the mosque was attacked during the Friday prayer in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. When hundreds of worshipers were offering Friday prayer, three armed men entered the ''Asna Ashari Hazara Imambargah'' and started shooting, threw hand grenades and one suicide bomber blew himself up - which left 53 dead and tens of others injured. It was second major sectarian attack on Quetta's Hazaras after the massacre of police cadets. It was the start of the series of killings of Hazaras in Quetta. Bombing On 4 July 2003, hundreds of worshippers were practicing Friday prayer in Asna Ashri Hazara Imambargah Kalan mosque. Five men armed with automatic weapons entered the mosque and fired on worshippers for ten continuous minutes and tried to throw a grenade, but it exploded in his hand. Worshippers disarmed one of the attackers and killed a third one. The other two attackers ran away from the roof. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lal Masjid, Islamabad
The Lal Masjid ( ur, ; translated: Red Mosque) is a mosque located in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. It is near to Abpara Market, Islamabad. It was constructed in 1966 as one of the oldest mosques in the new capital. It was also the largest mosque in the city for twenty years, until the Faisal Mosque was built in 1986. The mosque later came to be known as the site of a siege which led to a military operation by the Pakistan Army against the leaders and students of the mosque, resulting in hundreds of deaths. History The Red Mosque located on Masjid (mosque) Road is one of the oldest mosques within the capital. Before the construction of Faisal Mosque, the Red Mosque was the largest in the capital. Located in a very central position, it lies in close proximity to the two busy commercial centres - the Aabpara Market in the east and the Melody Market in the north. It was built according to Capital Development Authority (CDA) records. Maulana Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdul Rashid Ghazi
Abdul Rashid Ghazi ( ur, عبد الرشید غازی; – 10 July 2007) was a Pakistani Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic fundamentalist who served as the vice-chancellor of Jamia Faridia, Faridia University. Prior to his radicalisation, he served as a diplomat for UNESCO. He was the son of Muhammad Abdullah Ghazi, and younger brother of Abdul Aziz (Pakistani cleric), Abdul Aziz Ghazi. Abdul Rashid was killed during Operation Silence after Pakistan Army Special Operations Commandos' teams stormed the madrasah he and his students had been using. Early life He was an ethnic Baloch people, Baloch, descending from the Mazari (tribe)#Main clans, Sadwani (Sodvani) clan of the Mazari (Baloch tribe), Mazari tribe, in the town of Rojhan in Rajanpur, the border district of Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab province of Pakistan. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
