Shia Genocide Events
Narowal, October 13, 1949 : Attack on Ashura Procession(1949)
Date : October 31, 1949
Location : Narowal
Casualties :1 Killed, 10 Injured
Gender : male ,
Narrative of the Event
Background
In 1944 the Deobandi clerics established a separate organization under the name of Tanzim-i-Ahle Sunnat for the purpose of attacking Shia beliefs and practices, while keeping the mainstream Deobandi leadership absolved of the blame of communalism so that they could present themselves as secular nationalists. After 1947, many students of Molana Abdul Shakoor Lakhnavi and Molana Hussain Ahmad Madani migrated to Pakistan and either set up seminaries there or became part of the Tanzim-e-Ahle Sunnat or Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI). They travelled through the length and breadth of the country and called for attacks on Shia processions and wrote books and tracts against it. Among them were: Molana Noorul Hasan Bukhari, Molana Dost Muhammad Qureshi, Molana Abdus Sattar Taunsavi, Molana Mufti Mahmoud, Molana Abdul Haq Haqqani and Molana Sarfaraz Gakharvi.
Incident
On 31 October 1949 , (Muharram 10,1369 ) militants of Takfiri Deobandi radical organization Tanzeem-i-Ahle-Sunnat-TAS attacked on main Procession of Ashura, One Shi’a Muslim lost his life and 10 Shi’a Muslim Azdar were injured.
Source:
***The Shias of Pakistan: An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority, Book by Andreas Rieck, Hurst Publisher, 2015, Chapter3:Shias in Pakistan Until 1958
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