Terrorists distributing leaflets asking people to maintain 'hit list' of anti-jihadi personalities

Karachi, Sep.21 (ANI): Unidentified terrorists have reportedly distributed leaflets in various outskirts of this city to maintain a 'hit list' of anti-jihadi personalities and kill them and their family members.

The copy of the handbill, obtained by The Nation, shows a list of scores of high-profile personalities' with a message to enhance it.

It also shows a set schedule to kill the said personalities. It gives the names of various personalities belonging to journalist community, political, non-political figures, government high-ups, intelligence officials and law enforcement agencies personnel.

The communique justifies jihad and urges to wage jihad against the people, who are creating problems against the jihadi elements, and also asks individuals to maintain the hit list of people and kill them after taking 'fatwa' from religious clerics.

Among the areas where the communique, composed in Urdu, was said to be distributed are Keamari, Kunwari Colony, Sultanabad, Manghopir, Sohrab Goth, Ittehad Town, Baldia, Orangi Town, Metrovill, Korangi, Saeedabad and others.

"Make the list in a sequence and if you feel any problem to achieve the target, kill the family members of target," the leaflet reads.

Among the names included in the list are that of starlet Veena Malik, former director general of the Federal Investigation Agency Wasim Ahmed, Capital City Police Officer (CCPO), Karachi Saud Mirza, CID SSP Chaudhry Mohammad Aslam Khan, CID SSP Fayyaz Khan, Anti Violent Crime Unit Chief SSP Farooq Awam, Special Investigation Unit chief SSP Raja Omar Khattab.

Sunni scholar Mufti Naeem, Shia scholar Mirza Yousuf Baig, Dawat-e-Islami chief Ilyas Qadri, Muttahida Qaumi Movement leaders Haider Abbas Rizvi, Faisal Raza Abidi, Farooq Sattar and Rashid Qureshi, the former spokesperson of the former president of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf are among the other names included in the list.

The communique ends with provoking poetry "Pas Aey Shehsawaran-e-Islam. Utho Aey Allah k Lashkar. Agay Barho Aey Din ki talwaron. Chamko aur bijli ki karak ban kar dushmanan-e-Din per toot paro."

Police chief Wajid Durrani said the police had the details about the distribution of leaflets and added that an investigation is on. (ANI)