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| Shahbaz Bhatti murder case moved to military court |
| 2015-01-16 |
| [DAWN] The Islamabad police moved the murder case of Pakistain's former minority affairs minister Shahbaz Bhatti to a military court on Thursday. Bhatti, a Catholic who vocally opposed the blasphemy law, had been bumped off outside his residence in Islamabad in March 2011. His killing had followed after the high-profile murder of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, who had also been killed for demanding the blasphemy law be reformed. In the past, the All Pakistain Minorities Alliance (APMA) had pointed out that Death Eater threats had hampered the Bhatti murder trial. Threatening pamphlets claiming to be from the Punjabi Taliban had been found in the office of a key witness in the case, APMA had reported. The murder case of Chaudhry Zulfiqar, the prosecutor in Benazir Bhutto ... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in... 's murder case was also moved to the military court, along with a number of other high-profile, terror-related cases the IG Islamabad confirmed. Zulfiqar had been killed in Islamabad in 2013 when he was on his way to attend court proceedings of the BB murder case. At the time, police had jugged ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... an alleged al Qaeda activist involved in the killing. All political parties had reached a consensus over the issue of setting up military courts for tackling terrorism cases in the country. Their decision came in the wake of the Taliban attack on the Army Public School Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. that claimed over 130 lives. |
| Posted by:Fred |