RAWALPINDI: Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) General Secretary Liaquat Baloch while leading a protest rally in front of Waris Khan police station on Friday demanded the police arrest the killers of a local JI leader otherwise they would hold a march from Liaquat Bagh to Parliament House.

The JI leader, Tahir Khan, was assassinated on October 20, 2014 outside his residence in Dhoke Khaba. He was former president of Shabab-i-Milli and UC naib nazim in 2001-2005. His heirs nominated four persons in the FIR. However, JI claimed that the police were trying to hush up the case.

Leading over 150 JI workers and supporters after Friday prayers, Liaquat Baloch warned district police to start the investigations into the murder of JI local leader Tahir Khan otherwise, JI Emir Sirajul Haq would lead the rally from Rawalpindi to Islamabad and their workers will stage sit-in in front of City Police Officer’s office adjacent to district courts.

He said that the JI would create problem for the local police if it failed to arrest the killers. The JI leader claimed the police were protecting the killers. JI Rawalpindi Amir Shamsur Rehman Swati said the local administration was patronising the groups involved in political killings.

Published in Dawn, October 10th , 2015

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