Sadeq Ganji (died 1990), also spelled Sadegh Ganji, was the Iranian Consul General to Pakistan, and director of the Khana-e-Farhang-e-Iran (Iran Cultural Center), Lahore.
Ganji was killed by suspected Sunni militants in 1990, allegedly for propagating Shia revolutionary ideology through the Cultural Center,[1] though it is also theorised the assassination was revenge for the killing of Sunni militant Haq Nawaz Jhangvi earlier that year.[2]
In March 2001, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan member Sheikh Haq Nawaz Jhangvi was convicted and hanged by a Pakistani court for the assassination.[3]
| Martyr Sadegh Ganji | |
| Office: | Head of the House of Culture of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Lahore, Pakistan |
| Country: | iran |
| Website: | https://sadeqganji.com |
| Education: | Master's Degree Theology |
| Alma Mater: | Shahid Motahari University |
| Death Date: | 28 December 1990 |
| Birth Date: | 1963 |
| Birth Place: | Fasa |
| Death Place: | Lahore, Pakistan |
Sadegh Ganji was born in Fasa and completed his middle school education at Irshad School in Barazjan and secondary school at Shahid Beheshti High School in Barazjan. During the war with Iraq, he participated in different fronts for twenty months. For some time, he was responsible for the inspection of the Political Ideology Department in the IRGC Navy and worked in the Ministry of Guidance for a few months. He got married in 1363 and had two children named Subhan and Nader Ganji. In 1365, he became the cultural representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Lahore, Pakistan.
He was spending the last days of his mission as a cultural consultant in Pakistan, and on the eve of the farewell ceremony that was organized by Pakistani poets and writers in Lahore, Pakistan on December 28, 1369, he was assassinated by the militant branch of Sipah-e-Sahaba outside the hotel where the farewell ceremony was held. Ganji was in charge of the Iranian Consulate and House of Culture in Lahore
He was in charge of Pakistan from 1365 to 1369, and during his time in Pakistan, he had a lot of influence among the Shia and Sunni groups. Five of them were acquitted in the early stages of the trial. Haqnawaz was hanged as the murderer of Sadegh Ganji on March 10, 1379.