The leader of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) has surrendered himself to authorities, police said on Friday, a week after the banned religious outfit claimed responsibility for a deadly bombing in Quetta killing over 90 people.
Senior police officer Ashfaq Gujar said Malik Ishaq was arrested from his residence at the Airport Road in Rahim Yar Khan on Friday.
It was not immediately clear on what charges he was arrested.
According to reports, Ishaq has been detained for a period of one month, although it could not be verified as police refrained from commenting on the charges of his arrest.
Ishaq is one of the founders of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group, which is accused of sectarian violence and has claimed several attacks on the ethnic Hazara Shia population in Balochistan.
Ishaq, who also belongs to the now defunct Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, was also detained last year on accusations of fanning sectarian hatred.
The arrest comes a day after the Pakistan Army emphatically denied it maintained any links with the banned terror outfit. “The armed forces were not in contact with any militant organisation, including Lashkar-e-Jhangvi,” ISPR chief Maj Gen Asim Bajwa told a media briefing on Thursday.
“There is no reason to think about army’s involvement with LJ,” Gen Bajwa had said.
Human rights organisations have accused the army and its intelligence agencies of maintaining links with Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
The allegations stem from the army using Ishaq for negotiating with the terrorists who had attacked the military headquarters in October 2009. Ishaq’s subsequent release from jail was sceptically seen as a deal. The escape of LJ’s operational commander in Balochistan, Usman Saifullah Kurd, in 2008 from a detention facility in the military Cantonment in Quetta has also raised questions.
If he goes to jannat, I don't want to be there, thank you.
hahaha .. Look at this face .. ..even without knowing his backgrond one can say .. he is a child abdutor and a killer……
well talking about jannat.. ..
Hum jeb jannat ke deewaar say jahaka
sahmee woohee hoor kay beechaay vaahshee mulla bhag raha tha
lanat bar nasl e yazeed…
hang him publicaly
He looks more like a shiv sena fanatic than a deendar Muslim
It means now he is in safe hands and govt is securing him from angry shia jiyalas.
His mentor/s from Tel-Aviv and DC must have advised him to surrender 🙂
also add KSA!
and GHQ
kutta dehshat gard pakistan ka dushmin,
Yea he's in protective custody not police custody. He will be released with garlands in a few days. This nation has drowned itself into the mess its in. As you sow, so shall you reap. Enjoy the benefits of not separating religion from state my fellow Pakistanis. Like Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto once said, "yes I drink wine but not people's blood!" These monsters call themselves muslims? Which part of Islam says its ok to butcher innocent men, women and children of any faith in the name of religion? If someone can show me this passage in the Quran, I will stop being a muslim.
good news
People like him should not be prosecuted or jailed; they should be put to death immediately. They have no place in a civilized world.
Detained for one month or protected.
good news
Hang him to safe Pakistan and Islam
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