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Trial of Saad Aziz
 He's demanding that terrs be tried in Pak civilian courts. This, despite the fact that judges, prosecutors, even defense lawyers are vulnerable to intimidation and revenge attacks. All of them have families, which are levers to move them. Witnesses, to include police officials, have "recanted" their testimony, "forgotten" facts, or similarly shown evidence of intimidation. Tossing the bad guys into the "closed" military courts system is a logical step. So's the death penalty. Even if you're against it (and I'm not, despite having seen someone railroaded by the U.S. federal court system), Pakistain's got the same record of "jailbreaks" as most other heavily Moslem countries. Except on TV, I've never seen anybody broken out of the boneyard.[DAWN] THE list of shocking and grotesque acts of violence by Lions of Islam in Pakistain is a desperately long one, but few acts stand out like the Safoora Goth carnage last May. Similarly, among the many attempts to silence civil society and those working for a progressive, tolerant Pakistain, the murder of Sabeen Mahmud was a particularly disturbing act. Posted by: Fred 2016-01-23 |
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