Pictures doing the rounds on social media showed officials of Pakistan Rangers in a meeting with Aurangzeb Farooqi on what was reported to be his father’s funeral.
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In November, the group was in the news for practicing hate speech against the Shia sect at a public gathering in Karachi.
The ASWJ is an offshoot of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), a sunni extremist organisation that had first been banned in 2002.
According to a report in BBC, in 2012, the Pakistan People’s Party-led government again banned the organisation, for what it said was due to concerns of terrorism.
In 2018, a month before the general elections, the National Counter-Terrorism Authority (NACTA), had unfrozen the assets of ASWJ chief Ahmed Ludhianvi and also removed the ban on the organisation.