Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza said the the required security was not provided to me despite several requests made to Jhelum Police .
Eng Mirza, who has a huge following online, he deliverers weekly lectures after Zuhr prayers on Sundays in his academy where each participant had to pass through a security check.
He said the attacker had managed his entry at around 8am when the academy gate was opened and hid the sharp-edged weapon. He kept on waiting for the lecture to finish at around 3:30pm when the participants usually had photo sessions with the scholar.
“But a participant from Sialkot breached the queue to be photographed to leave a bit earlier and just then the suspect’s blade hit the hand of the Sialkot man who raised some alarm. At this, the suspect rushed towards me to hit me but security men saved me. The attacker again rushed towards me for the second time and the blade hit me on the shoulder,” Mirza said. He was discharged from a local hospital the same day.
He said he had survived a murder attempt in 2017 and sustained multiple wounds on his body. The attacker in that incident was also a Lahore-based man; however, Mirza had pardoned him since he was misled by some religious leaders.
After the attack in 2017, he said, police had deployed two cops for his security, which were later withdrawn. He had then arranged his private security.
Sources in police said a ‘Mufti’ had instigated the accused to attack Mirza.
Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza does not follow any particular sect and he points out, in almost all sects of Islam, ‘contradictions’ with basics of the religion with reference to books of Ahadith and the Quran. He is a qualified engineer and is stated to be in government service. He does not take any funds from individuals or organisations.
