SNP Councillor And Family Shoot AK47s In Pakistan

JAHANGIR Hanif, 46, a Scottish National Party councillor, has been shooting an AK47, in Pakistan:

A millionaire politician was suspended by his party yesterday after photographs were published of him apparently taking his family — including his five-year-old daughter — to fire an AK47 assault rifle at a military-style camp in Pakistan.

Photographs of Jahangir Hanif, 46, a Scottish National Party councillor in Glasgow who has campaigned against violent crime, were published yesterday by a newspaper beneath the headline: “Councillor Kalashnikov”. He admitted last night that his behaviour had been “foolish and inappropriate”.

His 17-year-old daughter, Noor, described how she and four of her siblings were driven in a blacked-out vehicle to an alleged training base in mountains near the Kashmir border and encouraged to fire the powerful weapon.

Video footage passed to the Glasgow Evening Times showed Mr Hanif’s youngest daughter, Sana, aged 5 at the time, being helped to fire the gun, the newspaper said. His son Ameer, now 14, also fired the Russian-designed rifle — the weapon of choice for Taleban insurgents in Afghanistan, with a firing rate of 600 rounds a minute — as did his daughters Zainab, 13, and Amina, 10, the paper added.

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When contacted about the video, Mr Hanif said “What?” before the line went dead, the Evening Times reported.

Stupid? Is this any differnt to an American shooting AK47s for fun?

Anorak

Posted: 8th, August 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Politicians, Twitterings, War On Terror Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink