KARACHI:
The sister of death row convict Saulat Mirza filed a petition on Thursday in the Sindh High Court challenging the black warrant issued for her brother Saulat Mirza, a former MQM activist.
The petitioner, Samira Wajahat, has contended that an appeal had already been submitted in the Supreme Court of Pakistan and claimed that the implementation of his death sentence should be suspended until the Supreme Court decided on the appeal.
Mirza was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in May 1999 for murdering the managing director of then named Karachi Electric Supply Corporation Shahid Hamid, his driver Ashraf Brohi and guard Khan Akbar in July 1997. He was moved along with four high-profile prisoners to the Machh jail, Balochistan, in April 2014.
An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Karachi had issued the black warrant of the death row prisoner on Wednesday following which preparations for the execution of Saulat Mirza were underway in Balochistan’s Mach Central Jail.
Balochistan Prisons Department had also confirmed that death warrant about the execution of Mirza has been received and the former MQM activist had been shifted to the death cell of Mach jail.
