Aurangzaib Farooqi

Mawlānā Aurangzaib Farooqi (Urdu: اورنگزیب فاروقی) is a Pakistani Islamist Religious cleric and the current chief of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jama'at.[1][2] He also took part in 2013 Pakistani election.[3]

Allāmah
Mawlānā
Aurangzaib Farooqi
Chief of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jama'at (ASWJ).
Assumed office
2002
Personal
Born (1972-11-10) 10 November 1972
Abbottabad , Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
ReligionIslam
Citizenship Pakistani
DenominationSunni
SchoolHanafi
MovementDeobandi
Political party Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat
Alma mater
Teachers

Biography

He was born on 10 November 1972 in Abbottabad, Pakistan.[3]

After his primary education, Farooqi went to study at Jamia Faridia in Islamabad for further education, where he studied for 2 years.[4]

He then studied at Jamia Farooqia in Karachi, where he was a student of Saleemullah Khan and Muhammad Adil Khan.[5]

He graduated from Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia, Banuri Town a Seminary in Karachi, where he completed the customary Dars-i Nizami.[5]

He then served as the Imam and Khatib in various different mosques in Karachi and during this time he joined Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan.[6]

In June 2014, He was made the Chief of Ahle-Sunnat-Wal-Jamat at an organizational meeting in Jhang city.[7]

Assassination attempts

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]

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References
  1. Ludhianvi hopeful of ASWJ’s ‘unbanning’ Archived 2018-02-22 at the Wayback Machine. Dawn (Pakistan)
  2. Azaz, Syed. "Ludhianvi bitter about Sharifs". The News (Pakistan). Archived from the original on 2 November 2017. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
  3. "Testing the waters: First-timers ASWJ confident of victory". The Express Tribune. 19 April 2013. Retrieved 15 October 2020.
  4. Mansoor, Riaz (2006). Hayat Shaheed E Islam (حیات شہیدِ اسلام). Maktaba Faridia. p. 57.
  5. Khan, Allaudin (2011). Qauideen-e-Sipah Sahabah (قائدین سپاہ صحابہ ). Maktaba Usmani, Lahore. p. 43.
  6. "ASWJ upset that Aurangzeb Farooqi's attackers are still free". The Express Tribune. 6 January 2013. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  7. Service, Statesman News (19 July 2018). "The radical's tryst". The Statesman. Retrieved 30 October 2022.
  8. "Altaf condemns murderous attack on Maulana Aurangzeb Farooqi". Business Recorder. 25 December 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
  9. "ASWJ local leader killed in Rawalpindi, central leader attacked in Karachi". Dawn. 15 February 2015. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
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