The Lahore High Court’s (LHC) Rawalpindi bench on Friday admitted for hearing a petition for halting the executions of three men sentenced to death for the attack on former military ruler General (r) Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi in 2003.
A single-member bench of the LHC, headed over by Justice Amin Qazi, was hearing a petition filed by death row convicts Khalid Mehmood, Nawazish Ali and Mushtaq Ahmed. The convicts’ counsel Colonel (r) Inamur Rahim submitted a petition in the court stating that his clients were unable to appeal against the death sentence handed down by the military court.
Justice Qazi accepted the request for hearing their appeals on January 12. The attorney general of Pakistan has also been summoned for the same.
Earlier, four death-row prisoners convicted for involvement in an attack on Musharraf were executed last month at Faisalabad District Jail. Civilians Zubair Ahmed, Rasheed Qureshi, Ghulam Sarwar Bhatti and Russian citizen Akhlaq Ahmed were shifted from Faisalabad Central Jail to the death cell in the district jail.
