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February 24, 2006
Pakistan: Islamist Leader In Detention Again
67 year old Qazi Hussain Ahmed (pictured) is the head of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Ama (MMA), which comprises six Islamist parties.
We reported last October that Qazi Hussain Ahmed had vowed to instigate a revolution after the festival of Ramadan.
At that time, he was stating that Pakistan would soon be "rid of the shameful American culture of vulgarity , unemployment, graft and bribery, lawlessness prevailing under the Musharraf regime."
We noted that after Ramadan, no revolution had taken place. However, exposing the underlying fact that most of the so-called cartoon protests are really nothing to do with the cartoons, but an attempt to sow insurrection and hate, Sheikh Qazi has been stirring up dissent, under the guise of cartoon protests.
It appears that the irascible sheikh has been stirring up the cartoon protests to attempt to destabilise the government led by President Musharraf, from an article in Reuters.
Earlier today, Sheikh Qazi was detained for the second time this week, in an attempt to prevent him leading cartoon protests. He was held at Lahore, in the east of the nation, as police set up road blocks on the routes to Mansoor. A local government spokesman stated that "He cannot go out of his party office."
The insurrectionist sheikh had been kept under house arrest at his Lahore home, to stop him leading protests. Last night, several militants were detained, with MMA citing the figure as 50, the police stating there were only a dozen.
The MMA is planning a nationwide strike on March 3rd. Shortly after this, President Bush is expected to be visiting Pakistan.
There is a real duplicity about JeI and the MMA. The protests are bringing out people who are ostensibly against the depictions of their prophet Mohammed, but are being utilised to attempt to bring down the government of the nation, where no newspapers have reprinted the original offending images.
Meanwhile protests have been continuing in Multan, Peshawar, Karachi, and Bajaur, a tribal region on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.
Two people were killed in the Punjab region during protests last week, causing the provincial authorities to ban demonstrations in that region. Three were killed in cartoon protests in Peshawar.
Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at February 24, 2006 8:13 AM
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