Aurangzeb Farooqi of banned ASWJ plans to contest election

Seeking help from mainstream Deobandi party JUIF, proscribed ASWJ’s ringleader Aurangzeb Farooqi has planned to contest the next election to Sindh Assembly from the PS-128 Karachi without fear of action against him under National Action Plan despite the fact that his banned terrorist outfit is mother of all terrorism in Pakistan.

Aurangzeb Farooqi, central president of the banned Deobandi takfiri terrorist outfit Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, had lost to a Muttahida Qaumi Movement candidate in the last general elections. This time round, however, he is certain that he would claim PS-128, a provincial assembly constituency comprising lower-income neighbourhoods of Landhi Industrial Area.
The man known for his hatemongering biased and provocative sectarian views keeps in view the MQM’s inner turmoil, the worst governance of the Pakistan People’s Party-backed Malir district, successes in the local government polls in the constituency . Brought up in the impoverished Future Colony locality in the constituency, Farooqi knows the area and its residents. He has already started campaigning for the upcoming elections and, along with his party’s elected LG representatives, area leaders and clerics, he has been visiting various localities.
In July, on the Sindh Home Department’s recommendation, a provincial committee had included Farooqi to re-notify him under the Fourth Schedule, a list of “proscribed” individuals suspected of terrorism and/or sectarianism under Section 11EE of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997.
However, the victory of the ASWJ’s Masroor Nawaz Jhangvi – son of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan’s slain founder Haq Nawaz Jhangvi – whose name was also on the Fourth Schedule, from Jhang’s PP-78 in the by-polls has made the banned ASWJ confident that the Election Commission of Pakistan would allow Farooqi to contest the elections as well.
Pakistan has suffered colossal losses at the hands of banned Deobandi takfiri militant outfits but the power that be fails to crush these enemies of Pakistan and always remained lenient to pave way for their entry into legislatures.
However, JUIF local leaders are unwilling to support Farooqi.