[DAWN] The counsel for Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of former Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
governor Salman Taseer, has filed an appeal at the Supreme Court against his death sentence.
The convict's lawyer maintained that the Islamabad High Court's ruling of a death sentence for Qadri is not in accordance with the law and constitution of Pakistain as the murder was caused by 'provocation'.
According to Barrister Khawaja Sharif, Qadri's counsel, the appeal was filed in the Supreme Court's Lahore Registry on April 8 but the court is yet to acknowledge the petition.
Following the IHC's ruling of a death penalty for Mumtaz Qadri, the convict was expected to submit an appeal in the Supreme Court.
Last month, the IHC rejected Qadri's application against his death sentence under the Pakistain Penal Code (PPC) but accepted his application to void ATA's Section 7, after which Qadri's counsels decided to challenge the IHC's ruling in the Supreme Court.
Qadri's petition had demanded that his death sentence should be quashed and the second asked for Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) to be declared void from the sentencing.