[Thread] Lets recap: Ahmed Ludhianvi, has openly called for the genocide of Shias in Pakistan. Last week he was invited as a guest by the Saudi embassy to attend an event that interior min @ShehryarAfridi1 also attended, a day after the bomb attack on Hazara Shias in Quetta (1/n)
... This photo from the April 13 event at the Saudi embassy shows minister for interior @ShehryarAfridi1 meeting with the Imam of the Kaaba, with Ahmed Ludhianvi of Sipah e Sahaba visible in the background (2/n)
Here is a photo from Dec 2018 showing Ludhianvi receiving an award from a military officer while on an army guided tour of North Waziristan with a delegation of hand-picked religious scholars https://www.dawn.com/news/1454065  (3/n)
That delegation that was given then army tour also included Harkatul Mujahideen founder and former Osama bin Laden associate Fazlur Rehman Khalil (4/n)
Photo from Jan 2019 of Ludhianvi leading the funeral prayers of Subedar Major Munawar who was killed during service in an attack in Loralai https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=284538255587250&id=1104548746358812 (5/n)
And let's not forget minister of interior @ShehryarAfridi1's meeting with Jamaat ud Dawa in which he vowed to defend Hafiz Mohammed Saeed so long as PTI is in parliament https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2018/12/17/you-have-our-full-support-interior-minister-assures-mml-leaders-in-leaked-video/ (6/n)
Then of course there is the famous video of DG Rangers Punjab distributing envelopes of cash to protesters of Tehreek Labbaik who had blocked Faizabad interchange for 3 weeks in November 2017
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42149535 (7/n)
And this classic photo from July 2018 in which finance minister (then an MNA only) @Asad_Umar welcomed Harkatul Mujahideen founder Fazlur Rehman Khalil as a member of PTI. Khalil is a former close associate of Osama bin Laden and HuM is a banned org https://www.dawn.com/news/1420784  (8/n)
This thread could go on forever, but these are just a few recent examples of the govt and military either openly supporting or turning a blind eye to individuals associated with banned terror orgs or extremist groups (9/n)
Instead of demanding loyalty from citizens, the burden of responsibility is on the state (read military and govt) to prove its loyalty to citizens, and not to the terrorists and extremists who bomb us. [End thread]
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