Azam Tariq (religious leader)

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use Pakistani English Template:Infobox politician Azam Tariq (Template:Langx; 10 July 1962 – 6 October 2003) was a Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar who was the leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP). He was assassinated in 2003.

Early life and education

Azam Tariq was born on 10 July 1962 into a Punjabi Rajput farmer family to Mohammad Fateh in Chichawatni, their family roots lying in the Kalyan village of the Patiala district, now in Indian Punjab, from where they moved due to the 1947 partition.[1]

He studied at a local madrassa and then enrolled in the Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia in Banuri Town, Karachi.[2]

Like most madrassa students and graduates at that time, he participated in the Soviet-Afghan jihad, and when he returned, while he was the imam of the Masjid-e-Siddiq-e-Akbar in North Karachi he formed the basis of the future SSP.[3]

Arrests and Assassination attempt

The Azam Tariq was arrested and jailed on 20 November 1995 alongside Zia-ur-Rehman Farooqi by the Government of Pakistan for anti-Shia activities and in February 1997 during the appearance of both of them due to poor security measures and government collusion a explosion took place in Lahore sessions court in which the Tariq was seriously injured meanwhile Farooqi was killed in this explosion, The Sipah-e-Sahaba accused the government and Sipah-e-Muhammad for the explosion and called it as a pre-planned murder (assassination) of Zia-ur-Rehman Farooqi and Azam Tariq in which Tariq survived, Following the killing of Zia-ur-Rehman Farooqi the Sipah-e-Sahaba appointed Azam Tariq as the new chief-in-Patron of the organization, In August 2001, Tariq was again arrested and jailed on the charges of terrorism and was released in November 2002.[2][4]

Political career

Tariq was elected three times to the National Assembly of Pakistan in Jhang Sadr, even though his constituency was a predominantly Shi'a region. He contested again in the 2002 elections while in custody and was again elected. He was released in November 2002.[5]

Views

Azam Tariq was accused of disseminating religious animosity, Tariq was also listed on Pakistan's terrorism watch. He once said "If Islam is to be established in Pakistan then Shias must be declared infidels,".[6] His aim was to transform Pakistan into an Sunni Deobandi Islamic state governed by Sharia Law where Shias and non-Deobandi Sunnis must be declared as the heretical and infidels just like Ahemadis.[7]

Death

Tariq was shot and killed in an attack on 6 October 2003 alongside Islamabad[8] as he left the M-2 Motorway to enter the city.[9] his funeral was led by Abdul Rashid Ghazi inside Lal Masjid.[10]

The assassination was part of a growing wave of violent incidents in Pakistan between the sectarian Deobandi Wahhabi and the Shiah Muslims. Violence peaked in July 2003 with the Quetta mosque attack and the massacre of more than 50 people.[11]

On 11 May 2017, 13 years after Tariq's assassination, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested a suspect in his murder.[12]

Bibliography

Books by Tariq

  • Rūdād-i ʻIshq O Vafā, Jhang : Markazī Daftar-i Sipāh-i Ṣaḥābah, 1999-2004, around 1000 pages (in 2 volumes). Author's memoirs.
  • Ahammīyat-i Hadīs̲ Dar Dīn, Kābul : Mayvand; Peshawar : Kitābkhānah-ʼi Sabā, 2005, 298 p. Importance of Hadith for Islam, in Persian.
  • K̲h̲ut̤bāt-i Jarnail, al-Maʻrūf, K̲h̲ut̤bāt-i Jel, Jhang : Markazī Daftar-i Sipāh-i Ṣaḥābah, 2001. Collection of speeches written in jail (1998-1999) collected by Abū Usāmah Z̤iyāurraḥmān Nāṣir.

Books about Tariq

  • Muḥammad Nadīm Qāsimī, Ḥayāt-i Aʻẓam T̤āriq, Faiṣalābād : Ishāʻatulmaʻārif, 1998, 413 p.
  • Muḥammad Nadīm Muʻāviyah, Pārlīmanṭ Kā Londa : S̲ānī-i Jarnail-i Sipāh-yi Ṣaḥābah ... Ḥaz̤rat Maulānā Muḥammad Aʻẓam T̤āriq Shahīd Ke Mufaṣṣal Hālāt-i Zindagī Aur Pārlīmant Kī Taqārīr, Karāchī : Maktabah-yi K̲h̲ilāfat-i Rāshidah, 2005, 376 p.

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References

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