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Death sentences of five terrorists upheld
[DAWN] The military appellate court has upheld the death sentences of five convicts in the Safoora Goth carnage and Sabeen Mahmud murder cases.The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on May 12 had announced the confirmation of the death sentences to the five ’hardcore terrorists’ - Tahir Minhas, Saad Aziz, Asadur Rehman, Mohammad Azhar Ishrat and Hafiz Nasir Ahmed - in nine cases of terrorism, including the Safoora Goth carnage and the Sabeen Mahmud murder cases. The convicts had challenged the death sentences in the military appellate court in June through their counsel, Hashmat Ali Habib. As per the prosecution, Minhas was the criminal mastermind of the Safoora Goth carnage in which 47 members of the Shia Ismaili community were killed in an attack on their bus in 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... on May 13, 2015. The federal government in March this year transferred the cases to the military courts established under the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. According to the investigation, Minhas killed the Ismaili community members to impress the leadership of the bad boy Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) group and secure an important position for himself in the terrorist network. The investigation claimed that Minhas operated his own network of local faceless myrmidons but was fed up with divisions in the Taliban groups and wanted to join the IS. For this purpose, he developed contacts with the local leadership of the IS. His brother-in-law Umer alias Jalal was also operating a group of Al Qaeda network in Karachi. Minhas advised Jalal to join the IS but he refused, saying he had sworn allegiance in the hand of the late Osama bin Laden ... who is now beyond all cares and woe... . Posted by: Fred 2016-08-22 |
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