ISLAMABAD: After the recent target killing of Maulana Dr. Adil Khan in Karachi, religious scholars have urged the government to provide them security, sources said.
In this regard, scholars of different schools of thought have now restricted their movement amid fears and serious concerns over their security.
The scholars demanded from the government to provide foolproof security amid the threat reports compiled by the law enforcement agencies.
Sources added that despite of their repeated requests, the government has not yet provided any kind of security to the religious scholars.
“Rangers, police and law enforcement agencies have been asked repeatedly but we got no response in this regard. In fact, already given police security has now been taken back,” the scholars said.
Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National Assembly on Religious Affairs and Interfaith Harmony Maulana Asad Mahmood of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal, Dr. Abdul Razzaq Iskander, Maulana Obaid-ur-Rehman, Allama Aurangzeb Farooqi, Maulana Taj Hanafi, Maulana Rab Nawaz, Maulana Abdul Rehman Muawiyah, Senator Maulana Ata-ur-Rehman, Dr Atiq-ur-Rehman, Maulana Saeed Yusuf, Maulana Safiullah, Maulana Ata-ul-Haq Darwish have been deprived of security.
Other clerics including Mufti Zarrooli Khan, Mufti Noman Naeem, Maulana Obaidullah Khalid, Maulana Hakeem Muhammad Mazhar, Hafiz Abdul Qayyum Nomani, Dr. Qasim Mahmood, Maulana Iqbalullah, Maulana Muhammad Tayyab, Mufti Zubair and Mufti Abdul Sattar have also been deprived of their security.
The clerics has said that it is the responsibility of the state to provide security to its citizens.
Earlier on October 10, administrator Maulana Adil Khan of a religious school Jamia Farooqia was shot dead in Karachi’s Shah Faisal Colony.
He was killed when unidentified motorcyclists fired shots at his car. Maulana was taken to Liaquat National Hospital where he succumbed to his bullet wounds. His driver was also killed in the shooting incident. (With input from INP)
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