FAISALABAD, Sept 11: The district police have reportedly declared the death of Qari Noor Muhammad a blind murder and registered a case against unknown murderers on a police report instead of the application moved by his father-in-law.
Kotwali police had earlier claimed that a case No 217/2004 had been registered under section 16 MPO against Qari Noor Muhammad. But later the police threw the matter in the cold storage and asked the deceased's heirs and local leaders of the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal to lodge a formal complaint so that a case could be instituted against responsible persons.
Deceased's father-in-law Qari Muhammad Tayyab filed a written complaint with the local police claiming that a heavy police contingent, accompanied by some unknown people in civvies, raided the Jamia Masjid Mubarak on the Dijkot Road, on the night of Aug 13.
The team entered the mosque and its adjacent seminary and arrested Qari Noor, MMA City President Qari Obaidullah Gormani and Imamuddin, a student of Noor, and shifted them to some unknown place.
The three detainees were tortured in separate cells between Aug 14 and Aug 18 due to which Qari Noor died.
After the receipt of the application from Qari Tayyab, the police faced serious pressure for registration of a case due to flaws and contradictions in the claims of police and the contents of application.
A police source said the murder case of Qari Noor had been registered against unknown persons in which two policemen had been made the complainants. The two officials claimed that they found an injured lying at Aminpur Bazaar, who was shifted to the Allied Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. The body was later identified as of Qari Noor, the prayer leader of the Jamia Masjid Mubarak.
The FIR had been entered into police record on Aug 18. However, the police sealed the FIR and also shifted the register to the custody of a senior police officer to keep the matter secret.
Meanwhile, MMA District President Sardar Zafar Husain has claimed that he will take to streets in case the local police fail to register case on the application moved by Qari Tayyab within next couple of days.
He claimed that the police had deliberately concealed the facts and registered a blind murder case of Qari Noor to save the skin of personnel of an intelligence agency and other accused involved in the kidnapping and murder of Qari Noor.
MAULANA FAZAL: Opposition leader in the National Assembly Maulana Fazalur Rehman has urged the district police to entertain the application of Qari Noor's father-in-law.
He was talking to newsmen at the Jamia Masjid Mubarak after attending a condolence reference for Qari Noor on Friday night.
The Maulana, who is an MMA leader, demanded that the rulers should tender apology for the killing of innocent people in Wana otherwise, the government would have to face anger of the tribal people.
"The government is playing with fire in Wana just to please its foreign dictators," he said.
The opposition leader claimed that the MMA had adopted the policy of negotiation and peaceful dialogues in the larger national interest, but some agencies were forcing the religious parties to fight with the government.
Denying President Gen Pervez Musharraf's claim about having support of 96 per cent people in favour of his uniform, Maulana Fazal claimed that only two per cent people had cast their vote in the referendum.
People had become allergic to the president's uniform because the issue was being raised just to prolong rule in the country.
Answering a question about alleged links of the MMA parties with Al-Qaeda, he said the question should be asked to army generals and the previous rulers who had a network in Afghanistan and relations with Mujahideen.