Terrorists of Sipah-e-Sahaba arrested

Nawaiwaqt, 23 Jan 2009
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Buy a suicide-bomber in Pakistan! Jihadi and sectarian terrorists are one and the same; both are for sale...

Police investigation into the suicide-bombing incident in Bhakkar in Punjab in August this year revealed that the killing was done through a suicide-bomber “bought” in South Waziristan. The targeted man was killed in the attack but so were other people, and the incident was generally described as sectarian, unleashing tensions between sects that gave rise to further violent events in the region. The police have now revealed that one Waqqas Hussain and his four accomplices had “hired” a suicide bomber and an explosives expert from Wana to kill a former friend of theirs with whom they had a monetary dispute.

So now we know that a suicide bomber can also be bought to settle personal scores, according to police investigation into the Bhakkar blast which left over 26 people dead in August. Rs 1.2 million were paid to someone who trains suicide-bombers for warlord Baitullah Mehsud, and the bomber was delivered at Bhakkar one day before the incident. The target was killed, but so was the PMLN MNA Mr Rashid Akbar Khan Niwani, the arbitrator between the parties. This means that today’s suicide-bombings are not exclusively linked to faith but to also to crime. And this raises questions about our changing society that we can hardly answer yet. (Daily Times, 25 Dec 2008)

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CID uncovers truth behind suicide attack in Bhakkar

* Enmity between two Bhakhar residents over non-payment of borrowed money led to the attack
* Haji Jaan Muhammad Wazir provided the accused with suicide bomber for Rs 1.2 million
* Attack at Niwani’s residence killed 26 people including the debtor

Staff Report

LAHORE: Crime Investigation Department (CID) officials have arrested five suspects who they say planned a suicide attack at the residence of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Member of National Assembly (MNA) Rasheed Akber Niwani.

The officials said the suicide attack was the result of a monetary dispute. The arrested were identified as Waqas Hussain, Dr Nazar Hussain, Muhammad Arif Khan, Muhammad Amjad and Saeed Amjad.

Enmity: According to a handout issued by the CID, Waqas Hussain, who it says planned the attack, had a monetary dispute with one Ijaz Hussain. Waqas had borrowed Rs 2,145,000 from Ijaz with a high interest rate to set up a business of sale and purchase of cars. The CID officials said Waqas suffered serious losses and gave Ijaz seven high-valued vehicles against the debt, but Ijaz demanded Rs 5,400,000 in addition to the vehicles.

The officials alleged both parties tried to involve each other in various corruption cases. Dr Nazar Hussain, father of Waqas Hussain, requested a notorious local Arif Khan to help them register a case of Waqas’ kidnapping against Ijaz Hussain. The complaint was lodged at the Darya Khan Police Station in Bhakhar District under section 342 and 343 of the Pakistan Penal Code. Ijaz Hussain took the matter to Rashid Akber Niwani. The PML-N leader called the two parties at his residence to listen to their case, and announced a date of August 6, 2009 for another meeting.

Suicide bomber: Meanwhile, Waqas and his father contacted Arif Khan again. Khan suggested they hire a suicide bomber from the Northern Areas to murder Ijaz. Exploiting sectarian differences, Waqas approached Haji Jaan Muhammad Wazir, resident of Wana, to complain against the Shia PML-N’s leader. Haji Jaan Muhammad Wazir promised to send a suicide bomber and an expert of explosives to plan a suicide attack at Niwani’s residence after charging them Rs 1,200,000.

Attack: Only a day before the attack on Niwani’s house, Wazir handed over a suicide bomber with explosives material and an expert to them. On the day of the incident, Waqas confirmed the presence of Ijaz Hussain at the PML-N leader’s residence with the help of a local dispenser Amjad Abbas Shah, and led the suicide bomber to Niwani’s house. The suicide bomber exploded himself close to Ijaz Hussain, claiming the lives of 26 people.(Daily Times)
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The mouth-piece of Taliban, the notorious patron of rogue elements in ISI, General Aslam Beg

In his op-ed in Daily Nawaiwaqt, the mouth-piece of the Taliban, the notorious patron of rogue elements in ISI, General (retired or retarded?) Mirza Aslam Beg suggests that the Taliban attacked the Islamabad Marriott Hotel because the hotel was being used as the control headquarters of CIA. Will General Beg answer if there was a CIA headquarter in the Orakzai Jirga which was attacked by a suicide bomber killing more than 110 innocent Pakistanis; was there a CIA headquarter in Bhakkar where dozens of innocent Pakistanis lost their lives in a terrorist attack by a Taliban/Sipah Sahaba suicide bomber. Clearly, General Beg is playing to the gallery by misguiding and confusing the minds and opinions of ordinary Pakistanis.




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Bhakkar bombing; a joint work of Sipah Sahaba and Al Qaeda

ANOTHER day, another district, another suicide bombing. The victims, however, are always new. Every suicide bombing tears a new hole in the social fabric of Pakistan and the Bhakkar attack is no different. The senseless death of at least 22 individuals and injury to over 60 at the hands of a religious zealot has been rightly condemned in the strongest terms. The truly frightening aspect of the recent spate of suicide attacks is that there is no end in sight. Indeed, the threat only seems to be growing from a toxic brew of militancy that encompasses everything from Al Qaeda and pan-Islamist ideologues to sectarian hatemongers.

The attack on Rashid Akbar Niwani, a PML-N MNA from Bhakkar, has the hallmarks of a sectarian strike. Mr Niwani belongs to a very influential Shia political family in the district. The district nazim of Bhakkar, Hameed Akbar Niwani, is Rashid Niwani’s elder brother. In June this year, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif was elected unopposed from Bhakkar in a by-election for a seat vacated by a Niwani. In 2002, Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain was elected as an MNA from Bhakkar with the Niwani family’s help. Bhakkar, however, has another, more dubious claim to fame: it is a base of the Shia militant outfit Tehrik-i-Jafria. Set up in 1979 by Allama Arif Hussain Al Hussaini, a student of Ayatollah Khomeini, the Tehrik Nifaz-i-Fiqh-i-Jafria, as it was known then, developed a vicious rivalry with the Sunni militant group Sipah-i-Sahaba. The rivalry morphed into a bitter sectarian war between the Tehrik-i-Jafria and Sipah-i-Sahaba’s more radical offshoot, the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi. Over the years, Bhakkar has witnessed many targeted killings and sectarian attacks.

The first suicide bombing in Bhakkar has occurred in the wake of two sets of developments. First, Shia families fleeing the sectarian violence in D.I. Khan have begun to settle in Bhakkar, driving up property prices in the district. Second, the Lashkar-i-Jhangvi has grown more powerful in Punjab on the back of its links with Al Qaeda and is flexing its muscles all across Pakistan. Last month, NWFP Governor Owais Ghani warned of the dangers his province faced from suicide bombers with links to militant groups in southern Punjab. Irrespective of whether investigations reveal any link between the Laskhar-i-Jhangvi and Monday’s attack in Bhakkar, the fact is a dangerous foe is stalking Pakistan today. Militancy is neither confined to one particular group nor to one particular area of the country. It is everywhere and comes in every imaginable — and sometimes unimaginable — stripe. Caught in the militants’ crosshairs, the ANP has belatedly woken up to the threat. “The time has come to clarify our national policy…. We are fighting for not only the survival of the Pakhtun nation but also of Pakistan,” an ANP leader told this paper. We could not agree more. (Dawn)
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