MACHH:
Former worker of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), Saulat Mirza, who is facing the noose in triple homicide case, says he stands by his previous remarks about the party leadership, according to sources.
The death row prisoner who is scheduled to be executed on April 30 in Balochistan’s Machh jail said this before a Joint Interrogation Team (JIT) that grilled him for at least seven hours yesterday.
The team is tasked with assessing revelations of Mirza he made in a video statement hours before his scheduled hanging, prompting President Mamnoon Hussain to delay the execution.
Mirza was awarded death penalty in May 1999 for 1997 murder of MD Karachi Electric Supply Corporation – now K-Electric – Shahid Hamid, his driver, and security guard.
In his recorded video, Mirza claimed that MQM chief Altaf had ordered him to carry out the killings.
In the fresh interrogation, sources said, Mirza stands by his previous statements.
“Whatever I said was true, I stand by my words. It was voice of my heart, I didn’t issue this statement under pressure but in hatred with party leadership,” a source quoted Mirza as saying.
“I have no desire to get my death sentence abolished, I’m ready for punishment,” he further said, according to the source.