Biased Dera Ismail Khan Police illegally arrests innocent Shia political workers

22 April, 2017 10:48

Dozens of Shia Muslims were arrested for exercising their Constitutional right of protest against the illegal occupation of land of Kotli Imam Hussain (AS) and construction of a commercial market on that land. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government’s Auqaf department permitted it, illegally because it was not government’s land.

Shiites set up a camp of protest under the aegis of Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen to register protest against said illegal occupation and construction of market building.
Shia scholar Ghazanfar Naqvi said that a Hindu lover of Ahl-e-Bait had allocated his 327 kunal land for azadari (sacred mourning rituals) before the establishment of Pakistan.
He denounced that self-claimed so-called Muslims are bent upon selling out this land for the self-financial gains at throw-away prices that was totally illegal. He demanded of the government to stop Auqaf department from this illegal sell-off and sort out the issue according to the stakeholders’ wishes.
Instead of resolving that issue peacefully and amicably, police raided the peaceful protestors and took them into illegal custody.

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