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Khi: Soyem of Shohada-e-Ashura Observed
List of Shuhda
SFP News
Jan2 2009
Shuhda-List
The collective Soyem of
Shohada-e-Ashura (Karachi) was held here near Masjid-e-Khurasan ,Britto road ,on
the night of 13 th of Moharram 1431 A.H . The program was jointly organized by
institutions,organizations and alliances from across the spectrum of
Millat-e-Jaffaria Pakistan .Representatives,members and leaders from Imamia
Organization Pakistan, Imamia Students Organizations Pakistan,Shaheed Foundation
Pakistan , Haiat-e-Aima-e-Masajid wa Ulema-e-Imamia ,Asgharia Organization ,Markazi
Tanzeem-e-Aza,Jaffaria Alliance Pakistan ,All Pakistan Shia Action
Committee,Shia Ulema Council ,Lashkar-e-Imam-e-Zamana atfs participated in the
program among others. The program was excellently anchored by Agha Aftab Haider
Jaffri in his unique style. The program started off after the maghrebain
prayers and witnessed a fairly good turn out of momineen from all walks of life,
despite cold weather and limited time for publicizing the event .
The venue was decorated with
different banners reading eye-opening statements like ' Mustafa Kamal, 9 April
aur 12 May ki footages kahan hain'…? , 'Shahadat Shahadat Saadat Saadat' ,'Shaheed
ki jo maut hai ,wo qaum ki hayat hai ' .
In his opening remarks Agha Aftab Haider Jaffri very aptly noted that the
worldly ideologies get buried in the museums of history over time ,but Karbala
which is the source of energy and motivation for Shiaan-e-Ali has braved the
challenges of yesteryears and is fully competent to confront the future
challenges .
Agha Hasan Zafar Naqvi 's lively address soon followed . He began by dispelling
the impression created by certain media reports that he suffered a heart attack
on the janaza procession day and appeared extra-ordinarily fresh and energetic
,which he attributed to the resolve of millat-e-jaffaria . He lashed out very
heavily on the perpetrators of heinous crimes and the architects of the
arson and plunder that subsequently followed terming them to be a well thought
out conspiracy to undermine the sacrifices of Shohada-e-Ashura karachi . In what
was an unprecedented criticism of cetain politico-religious parties, who support
the takfiri yazidi groups by resorting to criminal silence against the various
tragedies of attacks on muslims of Pakistan and particularly Millat-e-Jaffaria,
he termed them as munafiqeen , and an illegitimate legacy of the hegemonistic
powers.
He said that on the day of burial , the funeral procession numbering tens of
thousands of momineen, covered about 25 to 30 Km of distance to wadi-e-Hussain
AS cemetry and not a single incident of any damage to public or private property
was reported . This he said ,should make abundantly clear that Millat-e-Jaffaria
is a vibrant but a responsible nation.
Analysing the Ashura day he said , that the arson and mass burning started
about 3 to 4km ahead of where the procession was at the time of bomb blast
,while ironically the places where the procession was like Numayesh , Bundu khan
, Tibet Centre and Jamia Clothe market remained absolutely safe. Even the
saddar area to the left of procession housing electronics market and other
important business hubs remained scratch less . This he said points out to the
fact that the mourners were only peacefully observing the religious rites and
arson was handiwork of pre-planted rogue elements who had nothing to do with
millat-e-jaffaria and mourners. On the top of that huge quantities of chemicals
like phosphorus and cans of kerosene that were used to criminally burn to ashes
within minutes of the blast ,the area from denso hall to boulton market ,is not
something which mourners carry. This he said again establishes the fact that
the blast and subsequent turmoil was the part of same design.
He also highlighted the fact that this is not the first time when mourners had
taken out a procession as mourning processions of the same magnitude pass the
same route many times in a year ,without even a little incident of criminal
arson .
He also reminded the administration that the same magnitude of Ashura procession
in karachi, gave a sit in for 6 ,back on Ashura 2004 ,to stage protest against
the attack on Ashura procession of Quetta and again the event remained peaceful
.
He said ,these logical arguments should be enough to assure our fellow country
men and traders fraternity that millat-e-jaffaria is a peace loving community .
He also lashed out heavily at the city, provincial administration and
particularly the DIG and CCPO who could not ascertain even the nature of blast
in 48-72 hours ,but quickly ascertained the supposed perpetrators of arson and
arrested dozens of innocent shia youth on false charges .
Referring to the much talked about footages showing people wearing black clothes
involved in arson , he said quoting past examples, any planted criminal can wear
black clothes to give an impression that he is the part of procession . He also
recalled an incident on the eve of funeral of Dr. Ibne- Hasan Shaheed ,when he
himself indicated and asked the police to arrest some 'artificially planted'
outside criminal elements who were damaging public and private property, taking
advantage of procession . But the criminals had blessings of higher-ups in the
echelons of power and were immediately released by police. He further said
,that when he later quoted the event to the then prime minister in a sub-sequent
meeting , the officials faced tremendous embarassment on the bitter truth.
He conveyed in unequivocal terms that Millat-e-Jaffaria is not a collection of
simpleton folks ,and such tactics can simply not befool anybody . Earlier in the
press conference on 10th Moharram Agha Zafar quoted a similar incident where
when the planted criminal was identified by Agha Sb. and when police came to
arrest the criminal , he took out some 'card' from his pocket and the
police official assisted the criminal to run away from a safe passage.
Issuing a stern statement regarding arrests of innocent shia youth ,he urged
the government to immediately release the innocent shia youth . He
also strongly hinted about 'Jail Bharo Tehreek' and turning every azadari
gathering (majlis) and procession (julus) this year into a protest gathering ,in
event of non-compliance of the gov
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