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| Report sought on two cases pending disposal against Saulat Mirza |
| 2015-05-06 |
| [DAWN] The Sindh High Court on Tuesday called for a report on two criminal cases pending disposal against Saulat Mirza, a death row prisoner belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement ...English: United National Movement, generally known as MQM, is the 3rd largest political party and the largest secular political party in Pakistain with particular strength in Sindh. From 1992 to 1999, the MQM was the target of the Pak Army's Operation Cleanup leaving thousands of urdu speaking civilians dead... . The order came on an application of the MQM worker seeking deferment of his execution on different grounds, one of them being that there were two criminal cases against him pending trial and he may not be executed till their disposal. On Thursday, Mirza moved the application, fourth in a row, against his execution to the SHC Chief Justice Faisal Arab through a courier service. He was sentenced to death by an antiterrorism court for his involvement in the killing of the then Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... Electric Supply Corporation managing director Shahid Hamid in 1997 and was scheduled to be hanged in March 2015. But hours before his hanging, he levelled serious allegations against the MQM, its chief Altaf Hussain ...think of the head of the Barzini clan, only in Urdu... and the Sindh governor in a video statement aired on almost all news channels. Subsequently, the president postponed his hanging and the Sindh government set up a joint interrogation team to investigate the allegations. The fresh application was sent by Mirza's lawyer, Advocate Juma Khan, after the SHC member inspection team had turned down an identical application, advising his counsel to seek legal remedy under the law. In his fresh application, the condemned prisoner also cited the MIT-II and an assistant registrar as respondents for not placing his three previous applications before the chief justice. |
| Posted by:Fred |