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Azam Tariq (religious leader)

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Azam Tariq
Chief, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
In office
1997–2003
Preceded byZia ur Rehman Farooqi
Succeeded byAli Sher Hyderi
Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
In office
18 November 2002 – 6 October 2003
ConstituencyNA-115 (Jhang-II)
In office
16 October 1993 – 5 November 1996
ConstituencyNA-68 (Jhang-III)
In office
1991 – 18 July 1993
ConstituencyNA-68 (Jhang-III)
Personal details
Born(1962-07-10)10 July 1962
Chichawatni, West Pakistan, Pakistan
Died6 October 2003(2003-10-06) (aged 41)
Islamabad, Pakistan
Manner of deathAssassination by gunshots
Political party Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
ChildrenMoavia Azam Tariq
Alma materJamia Uloom-ul-Islamia
OccupationPolitician, cleric

Azam Tariq (Urdu: اعظم طارق 10 July 1962 – 6 October 2003) was a Pakistani politician, And islamic scholar who was the leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), a Deobandi Islamist organization, which was officially banned by the government of Pakistan in August 2001 due to sectarian violence and terrorism in Pakistan. The group was notorious for killings of Shia in Pakistan, it was also involved in Hijacking of Sunni Barelvi mosques in Pakistan.

He was assassinated in 2003. After his death, Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi was selected as the president of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan.

Early life and education

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Azam Tariq was born in 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]

Career

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In August 2001, Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf banned seven alleged Islamic organizations, including Sipah-e-Sahaba, and Azam Tariq was arrested and jailed on charges of terrorism.[citation needed]

Azam 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.[4]

Death

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Tariq was shot and killed in an attack on 6 October 2003 alongside Islamabad[5] as he left the M-2 Motorway to enter the city.[6] his funeral was led by Abdul Rashid Ghazi inside Lal Masjid.[7]

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.[8]

On 11 May 2017, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested a proclaimed offender after 13 years who murdered him.[9]

Bibliography

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Books by Tariq

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  • 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

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  • 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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  1. ^ Alam, Iftikhar (22 May 2022). "A developing scenario for banned SSP politics in Jhang". Minute Mirror. Archived from the original on 13 February 2024. Belonging to Rajput clan, late Tariq's family migrated in 1947 from Kalyan village, then part of the Patiala State and now falls in Punjab India, and settled in Chak No 111/7R of Chichawatni tehsil of district Sahiwal.
  2. ^ "In Death, as in Life".
  3. ^ Tohid, Owais. "In Death, as in Life". NewsLine Magazine.
  4. ^ "Pakistan's Sunni-Shia Rift | MEO". Archived from the original on 15 December 2019.
  5. ^ "The Hammer Poised to Strike in Pakistan". archive.democrats.com. 10 October 2003. Archived from the original on 27 November 2005. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Azam Tariq gunned down in Islamabad". Dawn.com. 7 October 2003. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  7. ^ "Azam Tariq's murder could have huge repercussions". gulfnews.com. 7 October 2003. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
  8. ^ Imtiaz Gul (8 October 2003). "Cleric murder highlights sectarianism". Aljazeera.com. Archived from the original on 24 April 2017. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  9. ^ "Former ASWJ leader Maulana Azam Tariq's suspected murderer arrested from Islamabad airport". The Express Tribune. 11 May 2017.
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