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Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Monday stayed the execution of five prisoners condemned to death by a military court for army camp attack in Gujrat in 2012, private media reported.
One of the prisoners’ counsel Laiq Khan Sawati filed a petition stating that his client Ahsan Azeem was not given a right to hire a counsel for defence nor was he provided with a copy of the court ruling despite a request.
The five men – Ahsan Azeem, Asif Idrees, Umar Nadeem, Kamran Aslam, and Amir Yousuf – had been handed down death penalty by a military court for involvement in attack on an army camp in Gurjat in which at least seven security personnel were killed.
Justice Arshad Mahmood Tabassum stayed the execution of the convicts who are currently held in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail.
Meanwhile in Karachi, Sindh High Court suspended the death warrants issued for two terror convicts jailed in Sukkur. The convicts were to be executed tomorrow.
The court ordered to shift the convicts to Karachi central jail and issue new death warrants.
Since Friday, 19th December, six terror convicts have been executed in Faisalabad.
Two other convicts were hanged on Friday in Pervez Musharraf attack case while on Sunday, authorities executed four more militants as the government has ended a six-year moratorium on capital punishment for terror-related cases following Taliban attack on Peshawar school that killed 149 people.
Pakistani courts & judges are notorious for releasing terrorists,Pakistan is in state of war,military courts can technically decide the faith of these animals who are involved in killing innocent people,Next we will hear,LHC released all sic cause of lack of evidence.
Iftikhar Chaudry introduced parole for black listed terrorists and now his cahoots are hell bent on releasing remaining terrorists. Time to give some dressing to these dirty judges.
Why have the lawyers been quiet for so long. Why this sudden turnabout by the courts? Justice has been denied for too long. The Govt. plans to execute hundreds but in the end it will turn out to be window dressing.
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