Qazi Nisar Ahmed

Qazi Nisar Ahmed

Qazi Nisar Ahmed (Urdu: قاضی نثار احمد) is a Sunni Muslim cleric and chief of the Tanzeem Ahle Sunnah wal Jamaat in Northern Areas, Pakistan. [cite news|publisher=South Asia Intelligence Review|url=http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/sair/Archives/4_16.htm|title=Gilgit-Baltistan: Hidden Tremors|accessdate=2007-03-27|last=Sahni|first=Ajai|date=2005-10-31] [cite news|url=http://www.onlinenews.com.pk/details.php?id=88383|date=October 2004|accessdate=2007-03-28|publisher=Online International News Network (Pakistan)|title=Sunni, Shia leaders held in Gilgit] He went into hiding on 15 October, 2005, when the government sealed two mosques in response to sectarian clashes between Sunnis and Shias, and ordered the arrests of seven top clerics of both sects, including Qazi Nisar. He was reported to be living outside of Pakistan. Northern Areas had requested that Interpol arrest him; however, he instead returned of his own free on the evening of 10 March, 2006 and surrendered to Gilgit police, who flew him to Islamabad. [cite news|title=Cleric detained in Gilgit|date=2006-03-12|accessdate=2007-03-27|url=http://www.dawn.com/2006/03/12/nat11.htm|publisher=Dawn Group of Newspapers] [cite news|title=گلگت میں کرفیو کا دسواں روز|date=2005-10-22|accessdate=2007-03-27|publisher=BBC News|language=Urdu|last=Adel|first=Adnan|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/story/2005/10/051022_gilgit_killing_sect_ra.shtml]

He is the son of Qazi Abdul Razzaq.Fact|date=March 2007

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