A two-member bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday sentenced two convicts to eight counts of life imprisonment each, for facilitating the suicide attack on an official Pakistan Air Force (PAF) bus in 2007.
Justice Abdul Sami Khan and Justice Sadaqat Ali presided over the case and dismissed the mercy appeals of Omer Farooq and Mohsin alias Bugti, who were previously convicted by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Sargodha for facilitating the suicide bomber who rammed his motor cycle in the PAF bus, killing eight officials and injuring others. The ATC Sargodha had sentenced the two facilitators to life imprisonment eight times (200 years) each.
The two-member bench reiterated ATC Sargodha’s sentence and sentenced the two convicts to life imprisonment “eight times” each.
4 TTP terrorists sentenced to death
Meanwhile, four terrorists belonging to banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group have been sentenced to death, 21 times each, after getting convicted of killing trainee jail wardens in the city.
As per details, an anti-terrorism court has concluded the trial of four terrorists in jail wardens’ murder case. All four men have been sentenced to death twenty one times each.
All four terrorists belonged to TTP and identified as Zulfiqar Ali, Karamat, Afzal and Abdul Haleem.
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The chief minister said that terrorism could not be rooted out overnight.
He also said that the government has taken serious notice of wall-chalking by Daesh in Punjab.
He said that “fatwa” of “kufar” and killing in the name of Islam are not appropriate nor the government will allow such “fatwas”.
He said that with the consultation of the Apex Committee, 43 cases of terrorism have been sent to the federal government to be referred to the military courts, out of which, ten have been finalised.
