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| Supreme Court disposes of Kohistan killings case |
| 2012-06-21 |
| [Dawn] A three member bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry on Wednesday concluded the suo moto case taken over the Kohistan ...a backwoods district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa distinguished by being even more rustic than is the norm among the local Pashtuns.... killings case stating that the girls in question have been found alive and the claim of the killings was unverifiable, DawnNews reported. The court stated that the investigative teams comprising a civil judge, MNA Bushra Gauhar, rights activist Farzana Bari (part of civil society) were sent twice to verify the claims aired on certain television channels and the report submitted by the team was found to be satisfactory according to the Chief Justice. The Chief Justice, while giving his remarks, said that the court condemns the holding of any illegal jirga but no evidence was found that would suggest any error in the report and that he trusted the judicial officer working on the case. Chaudhry also thanked former Interior Minister Rehman Malik Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men. and the administration for their cooperation on the case. He further directed rights activist Farzana Bari to present the court with any other evidence that she might posses and added that the case could be taken up again in case any evidence turned up. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Umm.. yes, I too would think that if the murder victims were found to be "alive" then the murder trial should be dismissed... I must be missing something. |
| Posted by: American Delight 2012-06-21 19:09 |