Reaction of Governor House Protest: Shia Ulema’s, Zakareen & leaders lose Police security

In a reactionary development, All Police guards provided to Shia Ulema’s, religious scholars, and leaders in Karachi have been withdrawn by the Sindh Police department on late Wednesday night.

According to the Shiite News Correspondent, The Police has withdrawn the security of Shia clerics and Ulema’s including Allama Taliba Johari, Allama Hassan Zafar Naqvi, Allama Abbas Kumaili, Maulana Mirza Yousuf Hussain, Maulana Nazir Abbas Taqvi, Maulana Ali Mohammad Naqvi, Maulana ShahanShah Hussain Naqvi, Maulana HussainMasoodi, Maulana Aon Mohammad Naqvi, Maulana Ikram Tirmizi, Allama Zohair Abidi and others without describing any solid reason.  

The sources confided told the Shiite News that the government has taken the step to withdraw the police guards to Shia clerics was to punish Shia leaders about the protest sit-in held outside the Governor House.

Sources further said that the decision was made in a meeting chaired by the Inspector General Sindh Police, Mushtaq Shah at the Central Police Office, adding that some top police officials had opined to withdraw the police guards from religious leaders’ security after the Shia community staged a protest for nominating SSP Chaudhry Aslam Khan of the Crime Investigation Department’s Anti-Extremist Cell in an FIR registered in the killing of their leader, Askari Raza.Its pertaining to mention here that the near about 100000 Shia Muslims were staged 10 hours long sit-in protest outside the Sindh Governor House in protest against the killing of Shaheed Askari Raza and demanding the registration of FIR against SSP Chaudhry Aslam and SSP leader Augranzeb Farooqi.

The overwhelming protest and sea of mourners were shaken the government and now they have planned to pressurize the Shia leaders by withdrawing their guards.

Additional Inspector General of Police, Karachi, Akthar Husain Gorchani confirmed to Dawn that the police guards given to religious leaders belonging to all the religious parties had been withdrawn and it was basically a ‘pre-emptive move’. He did not elaborate.However, sources said that at a meeting chaired by Sindh police chief Mushtaq Shah, some senior police officers expressed anger over a demand made by participants in a recent night-long sit-in outside the Sindh Governor’s House that CID SP Chaudhry Aslam be nominated in a murder case.The sources said that the police officers wanted that the police guards provided to the religious leaders of the community concerned be withdrawn.

“We could not have acted in a one-sided manner so we have decided to act across the board [withdraw guards from all religious personalities instead of from one community only],” said an officer who attended the meeting.Allama Abbas Kumaili of the Jaffaria Alliance, Maulana Ali Mohammad Naqvi, Allama Mirza Yousuf Hussain and others said that the police guards deputed for their security vanished without any prior notice and condemned the act of government.They termed that the reason behind the act to withdraw the guards is to pressurize the clerics and to take the revenge of the Shia community protest sit-in against Askari Raza killing.

They vowed that they would not bow down in front of the government atrocities.