Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi

Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi (Urdu: سید ساجد علی نقوی) is a Pakistani Shia Islamic scholar from Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

He is the founder & leader of Islami Tehreek Pakistan also Patron-in-Chief of Shia Ulema Council.

After the murder of Arif Hussain Hussaini in 1988, he was elected as the head [ Quaid e Millat e Jaffaria ] of the Tehrik-e-Jafaria by the Supreme Council of Shiite clergy of Pakistan.

[3] in November 2003 Pervez Musharraf regime arrested the Naqvi in charge of Azam Tariq murder case the leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba, an Islamic extremist Anti-Shia Sunni Deobandi Islamist organization leader who was murdered in 2003[4] by a member of the Sipah-e-Muhammad a shia militant organization in revenge for the Quetta mosque attack and the massacre of more than 50 shia muslims by Sipah-e-Sahaba in 2003.

The demonstrators staged a rally in Islamabad on Sunday to protest the detention of Naqvi and the killing of Shiite leaders.

Sajid Ali Naqvi at a press conference in Multan