O Bhai! They have alreay killed Salahuddin (Founder of Takbeer and Ummat )
KARACHI, Jan 7:
The murder case of Maulana Salahuddin has taken dramatic turn with the startling disclosures
by his daughter that she suspects the involvement of her husband in the assassination of her father, who was editor of Takbeer. She called upon the government to reinvestigate the case. She also pleaded for associating her husband, Rafiq Afghan, editor of an Urdu daily (Ummat), with the inquiry and added that she had decided to seek separation from her husband. Speaking to Dawn on Thursday,
Saadia said she had sent a request to the interior minister a few days ago expressing her concern over the state of investigations conducted in the case. She said in her communication to the minister that the police had installed "fake" suspects. The interior minister, Chaudhry Shujaat, when contacted by Dawn, said that now the case of Maulana Salahuddin, who was murdered outside his offices in 1994, could not bereinvestigated as a scrutiny committee comprising the personnel of the army's judge advocate general branch, military intelligence, the ISI and the chief secretary had scrutinised the case andprepared it for its trial by a military court. Terming the move by Saadia as a
"belated one", the interior minister said Rafiq Afghan could not be cited even as
co-accused in the case according to the procedures being adopted in the scrutiny and disposal of cases. In her letter to the federal minister,
Saadia said, she had expressed her fears that Rafiq Afghan wanted to flee the country with their two-year-old son and,
therefore, his name be put on theexit control list. She said she had also written that Rafiq would be fleeing the country to either Iran or Afghanistan, alleging that he had in his possession an ID card with the fake name of Saleem, "and he must be having a passport with a fake name, as well." A few days later, Saadia said, she s***e to the interior minister who acknowledged the receipt of her letter, saying the government would definitely do something in this regard. Saadia, who, according to her, has had estranged relations with her husband
ever since "he kicked me out from his house in 1997", said that her suspicions, which had now turned into a firm belief, were
based on "convincing reasons". The woman claimed that the only witness and complainant in the murder case, the late Salahuddin's driver, had been coerced by her husband to identify one of the two "fake" suspects in police custody, Saleem TT. Later on, she said, the CIA police on their own brought the other "fake" suspect, Nadeem Mota, to the residence of the driver, Amjad Pervaiz, to force him to identify Nadeem as well as an assassin.
She said the management of Takbeer, headed by her, had taken a stand soon after the case was reopened following
the imposition of governor's rule and had detected numerous instances of foul play in
the investigations carried out by the police. She said Amjad Pervaiz volunteered to speak out the truth when he found that the magazine had already taken a stand on the issue and on the occasion of second fake identification he refused to oblige the police. "I noticed a U-turn in the overall attitude of my husband soon after the reopening of the case as he who had ejected me from the house was now showing willingness to welcome me, which I refused," said Saadia, who was married to Rafiq Afghan in 1988. Only yesterday, she said, the
witness (Amjad Pervaiz) was unofficially produced before the high-ranking police officials comprising, among others, the DIG of Karachi, at Takbeer's offices. He told them that he was shown various photographs of suspect Saleem TT by Rafiq in the latter's office "forcing" him to identify the suspect for police. Saadia claimed that in the entire course of inquiries no one from Takbeer had been approached by the law enforcement agencies since the murder. She said that the driver was approached independently and the management had never been informed about it. She said the situation suggested that the police wanted to save the real culprits involved in the conspiracy hatched to kill her father.
The
DAWN Group of Newspapers, 1999
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Salahuddin's daughter saves many from the gallows
through "mock trial" by the military courts in Karachi
The
DAWN Group of Newspapers
Karachi: January 8, 1998
You may recall that the former owner and the Editor of "Takbeer", a Weekly published in Karachi was brutally murdered in Karachi on 4th. December 1994.
The successive Governments and the Federal Intelligence Agencies implicated the MQM in this murder, according to their conspiracies and designs under their "Three Pronged Strategy" of Isolation, Criminalisation and Demoralisation of the MQM leaders, office bearers, workers, supporters and their relatives in particular and the Mohajir Nation in general.
Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) denied all the Government allegations and re-iterates that it never believed in the politics of violence, it does not believe in the politics of violence and it will never believe in the politics of violence. Irrespective of the MQM denials, the Governments and its Intelligence Agencies persisted with their sustained propaganda against the MQM incriminating it in the gory murder of Mr Salahuddin. The Government even distributed printed materials to the Parliamentarians, world over, including Senators and Members of the Congress. It distributed its propaganda materials during the Sessions of the U N Commission and Sub-Commission of Human Rights in Geneva.
Ever since the murder of Mr Salahuddin, hundreds of MQM workers and their relatives have been unlawfully arrested, brutally tortured and kept in incommunicado in the State prisons.
Scores of MQM leaders, workers and their relatives have been arrested, even recently and their cases sent to the Military Courts, established with the sole view to hang the MQM workers party. Undoubtedly, the Military Courts would have sent the poor innocent victims to the gallows through their "Mock Trial" as precedent set in their trials miscarrying the justice.
But the disclosure made by no less than the daughter of the slained editor Mr Salahuddin unravelling the murderer of her father and coercion exercised by the Government will most definitely prove to be blessings in disguise for the MQM workers, who, hopefully be now saved from being sent to the gallows and be set free. It will also expose the designs of the successive Governments against the MQM.