Azam Tariq ( March 1962 – 6 October 2003) was the leader of the politico-religious organisation Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, a Deobandi organization, which was officially banned by the government of Pakistan in August 2001. On 26 June 2018, Pakistan lifted the ban. After his assassination in 2003, Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi was selected as the president of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan. Early life and education Tariq was born to a poor Arain farmer Mohammad Fateh in village, Chak No 111/7R, Chichawatni. The family is originally from Nakodar, Jalandhar. He studied at a local madrassa and then enrolled in the Jamia Uloom-ul-Islamia in Banuri Town, Karachi. Career In August 2001, Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf banned seven alleged Islamic organizations, including Sipah-e-Sahaba, and Azam Tariq was arrested and jailed on charges of terrorism. Azam Tariq was elected three times to the National Assembly of Pakistan in Jhang Sadr, even though his constituency was a predominantly Shi'a region. He contested again in the 2002 elections, while in custody, and was again elected. He was released in November 2002. Assassination Tariq was shot and killed in an attack on 6 October 2003 alongside Islamabad as he left the M-2 Motorway to enter the city. his funeral was led by Abdul Rashid Ghazi inside Lal Masjid. The assassination was part of a growing wave of violent incidents in Pakistan between the sectarian Sunni and the Shiah Muslims. Violence peaked in July 2003 with the Quetta mosque attack and the massacre of more than 50 people. On 11 May 2017, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested a proclaimed offender after 13 years who murdered him. Bibliography Books by Tariq Rūdād-i ʻishq o vafā, Jhang : Markazī Daftar-i Sipāh-i Ṣaḥābah, 1999-2004, around 1000 pages (in 2 volumes). Author's memoirs. Ahammīyat-i ḥadīs̲ dar dīn, Kābul : Mayvand ; Peshawar : Kitābkhānah-ʼi Sabā, 2005, 298 p. Importance of Hadith for Islam, in Persian. K̲h̲ut̤bāt-i jarnail, al-maʻrūf, K̲h̲ut̤bāt-i jel, Jhang : Markazī Daftar-i Sipāh-i Ṣaḥābah, 2001. Collection of speeches written in jail (1998-1999) collected by Abū Usāmah Z̤iyāurraḥmān Nāṣir. Books about Tariq Muḥammad Nadīm Qāsimī, Ḥayāt-i Aʻẓam T̤āriq, Faiṣalābād : Ishāʻatulmaʻārif, 1998, 413 p. Muḥammad Nadīm Muʻāviyah, Pārlīmanṭ kā londa : S̲ānī-i jarnail-i Sipāh-yi Ṣaḥābah ... Ḥaz̤rat Maulānā Muḥammad Aʻẓam T̤āriq shahīd ke mufaṣṣal ḥālāt-i zindagī aur Pārlīmant kī taqārīr, Karāchī : Maktabah-yi K̲h̲ilāfat-i Rāshidah, 2005, 376 p. See also Haq Nawaz Jhangvi Isar-ul-Haq Qasmi References External links Shia News: a partisan account of