Awrangzib Faruqi
Awrangzib Faruqi | |
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 Faruqi at a speech | |
| Personal | |
| Born | 10 November 1972 Abbottabad, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan |
| Religion | Islam |
| Denomination | Sunni |
| Jurisprudence | Hanafi |
| Political Party | Sipah-e-Sahaba |
Awrangzib Faruqi (born 10 November 1972), is a Pakistani Islamic scholar.[1][2]
Biography[change | change source]
He was born on 10 November 1972 in Abbottabad, Pakistan.[3] Faruqi studied at Jamia Faridia in Islamabad,[4] and Jamia Farooqia in Karachi.[5] He then served as the Imam and Khatib in various different mosques in Karachi and during this time he joined Sipah-e-Sahaba.[6] He also took part in 2013 Pakistani election.[1] In June 2014, He was made the chief of Sipah-e-Sahaba at an organizational meeting in Jhang city.[7] He survived a targeted assassination attempt, when he was leaving for court in 2012, in which six people were killed. The casualties included four policemen, his driver and a private security guard.[8] He survived another assassination attempt in 2015.[9]
References[change | change source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ludhianvi hopeful of ASWJ’s ‘unbanning’ Archived 2018-02-22 at the Wayback Machine. Dawn (Pakistan)
- ↑ Azaz, Syed. "Ludhianvi bitter about Sharifs". The News (Pakistan). Archived from the original on 2 November 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ↑ "Testing the waters: First-timers ASWJ confident of victory". The Express Tribune. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
- ↑ Mansoor, Riaz (2006). Hayat Shaheed E Islam (حیات شہیدِ اسلام). Maktaba Faridia. p. 57.
- ↑ Khan, Allaudin (2011). Qauideen-e-Sipah Sahabah (قائدین سپاہ صحابہ ). Maktaba Usmani, Lahore. p. 43.
- ↑ "ASWJ upset that Aurangzeb Farooqi's attackers are still free". The Express Tribune. 2013-01-06. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
- ↑ Service, Statesman News (2018-07-19). "The radical's tryst". The Statesman. Retrieved 2022-10-30.
- ↑ "Altaf condemns murderous attack on Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqi". Business Recorder. 25 December 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ↑ "ASWJ local leader killed in Rawalpindi, central leader attacked in Karachi". Dawn. 15 February 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
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