Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC) chief Sahibzada Hamid Raza Friday escaped an ambush near Faisalabad.
According to local news channel ‘ Samaa Tv’ “Raza was on his way to Faisalabad from Jhang when his car came under a hail of gunfire. The SIC leader was unhurt in the attack as none of the bullets that blew holes through the body of the vehicle he was riding could hit him,”
The SIC is an alliance of Islamic political parties in Pakistan which represents about 160 million Pakistani followers of the moderate Barelvi (Sufi) school of Sunni Islam, the majority sect in Pakistan.
Due to some political divisions, the SIC broke into two. One faction, led by Sayyid Muhammad Mahfooz Shah Sahib of Bhikki Shareef, declared that Sahibzada Fazal e Kareem and Haji Hanif Tayyab had been removed from their positions for attempting to form an alliance with the Pakistan Muslim League-Q without the prior permission of the member parties of the SIC, along with a host of other allegations.
Sahibzada Fazal-e-Kareem therefore established a SIC-F while Sayyid Mahfzooz Shah Sahib made a SIC-Mashadi.
Kareem later died and the leadership of the SIC-F was given to Sahibzada Hamid Raza. (Photo News / Samaa Tv)
