Shia Genocide Events
Jhang, May 20, 2004: Mob Attempts to Burn Shia Imambargah
Date : May 20, 2004
Location : Jhang
Narrative of the Event
On May 20, 2004, the Kotwali police in Jhang city, Punjab, registered a case under the Anti-Terrorism Act against 40 people in Basti Noorpura for attacking an imambargah, injuring at least five people, and causing damage to property on Wednesday night, and arrested 20 of them.
According to the FIR registered on the complainant of Wajid Abbas, about 25 people belonging to a particular sect, led by Dr. Maqsood and Shakil Ahmad, gathered outside imambargah Qasr-i-Wali Asr in Basti Noorpura, adjacent to the Jhang Police Lines, at about 7 p.m. on Tuesday and started pelting stones at the imambargah and alam. They also raised slogans.
Some notables of the area reached there and persuaded the attackers to go back. Trouble began at 11 p.m. on Wednesday when Rana Mursleen and Maqsood Sadiq allegedly used loudspeakers in a mosque in the locality and asked the people to come out of their houses and wage a war.
On their call, 40 people, armed with guns and blunt weapons, gathered outside the mosque, from where they proceeded towards the imambargah. They reportedly fired shots in the air and pelted stones at the imambargah, as a result of which Mohsin Raza, Sada Husain, Imran Shah, Aslam, and Muzaffar sustained injuries.
A Hi-Ace wagon parked inside the imambargah was also damaged. The assailants tried to torch the imambargah, but firing by caretaker Altaf Husain prevented them from fulfilling their design.
Sources:
1- https://www.dawn.com/news/359553/jhang-20-held-for-attacking-imambargah
2-https://www.geocities.ws/sipahisahaba/2004/20052004.htm
3-Daily The Nation Lahore, May21, 2004
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