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| SC adjourns hearing in petition by Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi |
| 2010-05-12 |
| [Dawn] The Supreme Court of Pakistan adjourned for two weeks the hearing of an appeal filed by Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, a suspect in the Mumbai attacks, seeking termination of the criminal proceedings against him. Lakhvi's lawyer presented the confessional statement of Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman in the attacks, before the court's three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. Chief Justice Iftikhar observed that the bench needed time to go through Kasab's 11-page-long confessional statement. In his confessional statement, Ajmal Kasab named Lakhvi as the ringleader in connection with the Mumbai attacks. Lakhvi is under trial in Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Court. His lawyer Khwaja Sultan argued that Ajmal Kasab's confessional statement had no legal value in Pakistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |