Arfan Bhatti

Bhatti was born and raised in Oslo to parents of Pakistani origin from the city of Gujrat. He spent several years in Pakistan during his childhood in addition to attending school in Norway, but was eventually brought under the care of a child protection institution. He joined the criminal youth gang Young Guns when he was thirteen years old, and when he was fifteen years old he hit the owner of a local grocery store in the head with a glass bottle so that it shattered and then stabbed the victim in the abdomen numerous times, for which he received his first criminal conviction. In 1998 he was convicted for having shot a person as part of an extortion assignment. The court psychiatrist then concluded that Bhatti had "insufficiently developed mental capacities", and as part of later court proceedings in 2004 and in 2006 assessors concluded that he had dissocial personality disorder. Bhatti resided in Pakistan in the early 2000s, and during this time he was described to have become more religious and more extreme. ==Oslo Synagogue attack==

Bhatti was in 2006 charged for shots fired against the Oslo Synagogue, and for planning to detonate bombs against the American and Israeli embassies in Oslo. Earlier the same year he had been stopped by police in Germany with pictures and notes concerning weaponry, which he claimed to be for self-defence during travels in the Middle East. He was convicted for co-conspiracy to the shots fired against the synagogue in 2008, but acquitted for terror plans against the American and Israeli embassies. He was held in custody for three years, from 2006 to 2009 in connection with the case. In 2006 he was charged but not convicted for shots fired against the home of journalist Nina Johnsrud of the newspaper Dagsavisen. ==Profetens Ummah==

Bhatti first appeared publicly as an Islamist in January 2012 as the leader of a group of protesters outside the Storting, the Norwegian parliament building, from the Islamist group Profetens Ummah. ==Arrest in Pakistan==

In 2012 it was initially reported by some news outlets that Bhatti had travelled to fight in Syria along with other Norwegian jihadists, but it was soon reported by other sources that he probably was in Pakistan instead. Bhatti was later found to have been imprisoned in northern Pakistan from January 2013 to August 2014, although he according to his lawyer was eventually acquitted from his charges of having had contacts with the Taliban. In March he reportedly met and brought personal belongings to fellow member of Profetens Ummah Omar Cheblal in Greece, who had been expelled from Norway. Bhatti was at the same time sentenced to ten months in prison for domestic violence against his children, but appealed the verdict. In April he went on a pilgrimage to Mecca. In late July Bhatti was arrested with new violence charges. He began serving his ten-month domestic violence sentence in August after the verdict was upheld in courts of appeal. In January 2016 he was sentenced to fourteen days in prison for violence against his wife. ==Personal life==

Bhatti has been married three times, he first married a Pakistani woman in 2003 whom he had been engaged to since 1995. They had three children together. The couple had one son together, who died shortly after Shezadi took him to Syria with her in late 2014. According to court documents he has at least one other child. == See also ==