SIC declares ex-TTP chief as murderer, criminal

LAHORE: Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC), a conglomerate of organizations of Braveli school of thought, came down hard on elements those who declared former Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Hakimullah Mehsud as a Shaheed following his death in a US drone attack in North Waziristan last Friday.

In a statement issued here on Friday, it said that branding the killing of Mehsud as Shahadat was against teachings of the Quran and an Sunnah. It noted that the former TTP amer was a murderer and a criminal.

The statement also termed the US drone attacks in country’s northwestern tribal region as illegal, immoral, inhuman and atrocity. It termed “innocent people including children man and women” as martyrs.