Qizilbash, who was still resentful of the Minister of Interior because he was the one who had first denied his announcements about the acceptance of Shia demands earlier that year, sent S. Hadi Ali Shah and S. Murid Husain Shah, while Shamsi came himself. This was denied emphatically by Mirza Yusuf Husain and by S. Muhammad Dihlavi himself,196Close who issued an immediate clarification in the Shia press: first, presidential elections were a political question, and the rules of a fatw would not apply to them; every Shia had complete freedom in that matter. 6. More than half of the members of his Advisory Board were affiliated either to the ITHS or the APSC. The movement led by S. Muhammad Dihlavi, which quite successfully asserted Shia demands vis-a-vis the government and the Sunni majority in the three years after 1965,214Close coincided with the first climax of a purely internal conflict within Pakistans Shia community. 155, 18283, 18687, 190, 194, 199, 20809. 7071. panegyrics. Muhammad Ismails polemic was quite misplaced considering the small amount of khums which had been put at the disposal of the dn madris so far, but it was not without logic. In 1947 he moved to Karachi where he founded a Dr ul-Ulm and became known as the Grand Mufti of Pakistan; see Bukhr, Akbir ulam-i Deoband, pp. the five representatives named by Dihlavi in January205Closeon 24 July 1965 in Karachi rejected the proposal, insisting on the demand for a separate board for Shia auqf.206Close Yet a clause was added to a SMC resolution on this matter, apparently on behest of Qizilbash, stating that if the government appoints a qualified Shia to the board on individual basis and he does not act against Shia interests, the SMC will not object.207Close On 24 August the Chief Administrator Auqaf invited the SMC members for consultation on the proposed appointments. The journal al-Muballigh almost refrained from commenting on it, printing only a small article on the necessity of khums.222Close It claimed that the Dr ul-Ulm Muhammadya Sargodha had so far used khums only for the sayyids among its students.223Close The editor of Razkr appealed for a discrete meeting of the ulam or referring the dispute to the marja al-taqld in Najaf.224Close Muhammad Ismail claimed that he had tried to discuss the matter with other ulam behind closed doors before, but he did not consider it necessary to carry the dispute to Najaf.225Close, In fact the position of both Ayatollah S. Muhammad Husain Borujerdi, who died in March 1961, and his successor S. Muhsin al-Hakim remained ambivalent. See section 4.5, pp. From 1964 to 1970 he was Chairman of the CII; see Rh, Tazkira-yi ulam-i Panjb, Vol. The SMC Working Committee met in Multan on 5 November and decided that another countrywide convention should be held in Hyderabad in February 1968 to report on the movements achievements within four years and approve further steps. Therefore we want that both Shia and Sunni children receive religious instruction of their own so that the pupils can become fully acquainted with their mazhab and its requirements171Close and become true Muslims in that way For example, at the Aligarh University there are separate branches for Shia and Sunni dnyt and separate congregational prayers for both sects 172Close, The second issue is concerning the Shia auqf The government has passed laws to prevent their misuse by mutawalls and administrators. Category : Pakistani Shia Muslims A detailed account of the violence in Theri, Lahore and Narowal was published fifty years later by the Blog Sharaabtoon under the title The Most Unfortunate Incident: The Theri Massacre and Fifty years of Sectarian Violence in Pakistan; URL: http://sharaabtoon.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-most-unfortunate-incident-theri.html.
