Mullah Omar Sarhindi was present with police when blasphemy victim was tortured to death, a lawyer claims

Armed militants loyal to Mullah Omar Sarhindi accompany him to court Monday in Umerkot.

A blasphemy accused in Pakistan was tortured to death in police custody September 19 in the presence of an infamous Islamic cleric, according to a local lawyer Latif Ibrahim Advocate.

As civil society members and Sindhi lawyers pledged they will not let their peaceful land be spoiled by religious extremism, the killer of Dr. Shahnawaz Kunbhar of Umerkot named Mullah Omar Sarhindi was openly defying the writ of the state. The extremist cleric appeared for his interim bail Monday with body guards carrying AK-47 assault rifles.

The court granted him bail.

Latif Advocate provided a blow by blow account of the doctor’s killing in the custody of Umerkot police in the presence of Mullah Sarhindi, president of the Tehrik Labbaik Pakistan, Southern Sindh.

The advocate identified the police officer present at the scene along with Mullah Sarhindi as Senior Superintendent of Police in Umerkot, Asif Raza Baloch.

“The plan was to present the victim before Mullah Omar Sarhindi where the victim would concede that he had insulted Prophet Mohammed and seek forgiveness for his sin. The victim was then to be presented to the Islamist mob for lynching,” said Latif Advocate.

The Tehrik Labbaik Pakistan is threatening the Sindh government to “come to its senses and take back the charges on Mullah Sarhindi and other lovers of the Prophet.”

The advocate cited sources within Umerkot police as saying Kunbhar flatly refused and to every question, he kept on saying “I will die but will not accept any false accusation against me. I cannot even imagine saying  what you are accusing me of.”

According to Latif Advocate, as the tormentors continued to torture the government doctor, he breathed his last with a drooping neck.

“To cover up the Sarhindi crime, the victim body was shifted to Sindhri in Mirpurkhas,” said Latif Advocate. “So that the torture to death would never be known, Sarhindi and the police officials made a plan to burn the body,” the lawyer said.

According to Latif Advocate’s account, loyalists of Mullah Sarhindi were ready to roll with the blessings of D.I.G. Javed Jiskani, and Senior Superintendents of Police Captain (R) Asad Ali Chaudhry of Mirpurkhas and Asif Raza Baloch of Umerkot.

“At 5 a.m. in the morning the father of the victim left Mirpurkhas with the body of his son. How would unrelated people assemble that early. How were people ready with gasoline so early in the morning? How did they know where the victim family was headed for?”

The lawyer said victim’s father did his best to save the last remains of his son but the mob succeeded in charring the body (to conceal the torture).

“The body was so horribly mutilated that none could look at it for more than 10 seconds.”

The lawyer lamented Mullah Omar Sarhindi, D.I.G. Javed Jiskani, S.S.P. Mirpurkhas Captain (Rtd)  Asad Ali Chaudhry and S.S.P. Asif Raza Baloch committed beastly cruelty on Shaheed Kunbhar.

Civil society leader Sindhoo Nawaz Ghanghro post on Facebook says, “O mullah, You can use abusive language and keep on with the threats to burn and kill, or even kill us for real, but you can’t silence us. We won’t allow the destruction of the land of tolerance, peace and love (Sindh). Our killing will further expose your cowardice.”

Meanwhile, civil society members thanked the Sindhi lawyers as the Sindh High Court in Mirpurkhas has put the names of Mullah Sarhindi and the police officials— Jiskani, Chaudhry and Baloch— involved in the extrajudicial killing and burning the body of Shaheed Shahnawaz Kunbhar on the Exit Control List (E.C.L.).

This move is aimed at preventing the alleged culprits from leaving the country.

“Big decision of Sindh High Court Mirpur Khas, name of killers included in ECL,” Sindhoo Nawaz Ghanghro posted on Facebook with a raised fist sign✊. Ghanghro and other women activists have emerged as legendary heroines, like Marvi in Sindhi folklore who threw the gauntlet at feudal ruler Umer who imprisoned her at Umerkot centuries ago.

“We want to see such a Sindh. We are very thankful to the lawyers of Sindh who fearlessly stand with Sindh, for rule of law and justice for Dr. Shahnawaz. Without the efforts of lawyers, this would never be possible,” said Ghanghro with hashtags that included #SindhRejectsReligiousExtremism.

Monday— his 61st birthday— Supreme Court lawyer Javed Qazi visited the father of the victim, Mohammad Saleh Kunbhar. The bereaved father posted on social media that he had named his son after Shahnawaz Bhutto, son of slain premier Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Supreme Court lawyer Javed Qazi with Mohammad Saleh Kunbhar, 71, father of Shaheed Dr. Shahnawaz Kunbhar.

Javed Qazi’s father was the legendary Qazi Faiz Mohammed, a close friend of Bangladesh founder Sheikh Mujibur Rehman. Qazi personally knows ousted Bangladesh premier Sheikh Hasina.

His visit was widely hailed.

“It is because of people like you that Sindh is still a wall of lead against ignorance and extremism of any kind,” said Nasim Bhutto, a former police officer and notable of the Bhutto clan from Larkana. He added, “Sindh has the courage to stand up to in the face of ignorance. I am proud to be Sindhi. Long live Sindh.”

A second senior lawyer and intellectual, Dr. Shahab Usto said, “The hands of Police and Pakistan People’s Party stalwarts are stained with the blood of Dr Shahnawaz Kunbhar. How can Bilawal (Bhutto Zardari) claim he is for religious tolerance. He seems to have a black face.” Usto was pointing to the fact that member of National Assembly, Pir Ameer Shah Jeelani, who belongs to the P.P.P., garlanded the police officials Jiskani and Chaudhry for the extrajudicial, custodial killing of the doctor.

Another prominent lawyer, former additional advocate general of Sindh, Barrister Mustafa Mahesar, has said a mausoleum to honor the memory of the assassinated doctor is must.

“Now is the time for Sindhis to uphold their secular values by building a mausoleum for Shaheed Dr. Shahnawaz Kumhbar (sic). It's a must to tell the killers they stand defeated,” Mahesar said.

Women’s right defender Aisha Dharejo, who also visited the family of the blasphemy killing victim, said Dr. Kunbhar’s mother said the family surrendered their son to the police after they were assured that her son would be safe in police custody.

Dharejo expressed her resolve to counter the religious extremists.

Most of the people accused of blasphemy in Pakistan are actually accused of insulting the Prophet Mohammed. They are condemned for being Gustakhay Rasool or Insulter of the Prophet.

Strangely enough, when a cleric says Mohammed in his fifties consummated his marriage with his youngest wife Ayesha when she was nine, everyone accepts that as a matter of fact but when a common man says the same thing they are accused of blasphemy. Kunbhar’s controversial Facebook post also mentioned the same thing about Mohammed’s many marriages: his first wife Fatima was much older, the last wife Ayesha much younger.

In fact, one such cleric Zakir Naik will be visiting Pakistan October 5 as a state guest. Islamic religious organizations also admit Mohammed had a Coptic slave girl Mariya that he used like a wife, according to Hanafi portal Fatwaa.com.

In a rare move, Sindh Home Minister Zia Ul Hassan Lanjar admitted that the victim Dr. Kunbhar was indeed killed by the police extrajudicially in a fake encounter. He has promised justice and compensation for the bereaved family.

The key culprit in this case Mullah Sarhindi is an Afghan transplant in lower Sindh. He and his family have been in the lead to abduct and forcibly marry and convert Hindu girls to Islam.

Mullah Sarhindi has time and again tried to blackmail progressives in Sindh like Amar Jaleel, Professor Arfana Mallah and Amar Sindhu by using Pakistan’s blasphemy laws as a sword of Damocles.

LAHORE: The Cradle of Blasphemy Killing

In 1923, Muslims published two particularly offensive books about Hindus. “Krishna teri geeta jalani padegi” used lampooned Shri Krishna and other Hindu deities while, “Uniseevi sadi ka maharshi” ridiculed Arya Samaj founder Swami Dayanand Saraswati (written by an Ahmadi Muslim). In response, to this provocation, Pandit Chamupati Lal, a close friend of publisher Mahashay Rajpal, wrote a satirical biography of Mohammed titled “Rangeela Rasool” or Playboy Prophet.

The publisher was killed by Ilm-ud-Deen, who is called Ghazi and Shaheed by extremist Punjabi Muslims. According to journalist Praveen Swamy, Ilm-ud-Din, a homosexual had become suicidal as the boy he loved Sadiq Kasab, nicknamed Haji, had stopped speaking to Ilm-ud-Din, and had dumped him for another carpenter Ghulam Nabi.

It is clear that Ilm-ud-Din then decided to kill two birds with one stone: instead of killing himself, he would kill Rajpal and get sentenced to death himself. That way he would enjoy eternal life with 22 boys, whose beauty the Koran describes “as if they were pearls well-protected.”

Feature film in Punjabi lionizing 19-year-old pedophile Ilm-ud-Din, who killed Mahashay Rajpal for blasphemy.

These blasphemy laws were promulgated in Pakistan during the military regime of U.S. backed monkey general, Gen. Ziaul Haq. Even today, the Biden administration is said to be working closely with Pakistan army chief Gen. Asim Munir— the U.S. ambassador to Pakistan, Donald Armin Blome, is on the hotline with Gen. Munir and is accused of shielding the election rigging earlier this year.

Local Sindhis look upon Islamists as the fifth column of Pakistan military and intelligence services.

Social and environmental activist Masood Lohar with the young son of Shaheed Dr. Shahnawaz Kunbhar. Lohar was being threatened by the mullahs to which he responded he will answer their terror with full force.

According to some Islamic scholars, Muhammad had himself ordered the execution of a Jewish notable Ka’ab bin Ashraf for blasphemy. Two of the most reliable books on the Prophets quotations, Sahih Bukhari and Sahih Muslim, confirm that Muhammad had ordered those who insult him to be killed.