ISLAMABAD-
Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) party Chief Mohammad Ahmed Ludhianvi and other party members were booked for spreading religious hate, violating the Amplifier Act and interfering in governmental function in a First Information Report filed at Secretariat police station on Monday.
On Sunday, ASWJ staged a protest outside the Supreme Court at the Constitutional Avenue over the killing of its leader Maulana Mazhar Siddiqui, clashed with the police and and as a result was subjected to baton-charge and tear gas.
Siddiqui was gunned down early morning Sunday near Pir Wadhai Mor of Rawalpindi.
The protest was called off following a meeting of the party leaders with special adviser to Prime Minister, Irfan Siddiqui who convinced them into ending their seven-hour long protest.
ASWJ’s Central President Aurangzeb Farooqi was targeted by unidentified gunmen near the Quaidabad Bridge area in Karachi on Saturday night. Farooqi escaped unhurt in the attack while three of his bodyguards sustained injuries, according to a party spokesperson.
In 2012, at least six people, including four police officers, a personal security guard, and Farooqi’s driver, were killed when gunmen attacked them on Rashid Minhas Road on December 25.
It is widely believed that the sectarian group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan renamed itself as ASWJ after being banned in 2002.
Pakistan is facing rising sectarian violence with prominent Sunni and Shiite figures often coming under attack in all major cities of the country.
