Pir Saifur Rahman
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Pir Saifur Rahman (alternately Pir Saif-ur-Rahman, Ur Rahman, Rehman, etc) is a cleric of the Barelvi school of Islam, most recently active in Bara tehsil, Khyber Agency, Pakistan. The Asia Times has reported Rahman as the leader of northwest Pakistan's Ansar-ul-Islam[1]
Though the dates vary by source, media reports agree that Rahman is orignally from Afghanistan, emigrating to Pakistan's tribal northwest in the 1940s[2] or 1970s.
Rahman's faction (identified with green flags in Bara) was opposed to, and on several occasions violently clashed with the Deobandi Muslim black-flagged Lashkar-e-Islam organization of Mufti Munir Shakir.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Hassan Abbas Pakistan's grip on tribal areas is slipping Asia Times, 4 Oct 2007.
- ^ Shamim Shahid Call for action against gun-totting supporters of Pro-Taleban cleric Khaleej Times, 1 Apr 2006
- ^ Sonya Fatah FM Mullahs Columbia Journalism Review, August 2006
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