An anti-terrorism court on Monday deferred till June 30 the hanging of two condemned prisoners belonging to the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
, who had been sentenced to death in a doctor's killing case.
Following the dismissal of their appeals by the superior judiciary as well as the mercy petition by the president, an ATC had on June 11 issued black warrants for the two LJ activists -- Attaullah alias Qasim and Mohammad Azam alias Sharif -- and fixed June 26 for their execution.
However,
a clean conscience makes a soft pillow...
a court official said that jail authorities, through an application, informed the court that the two condemned prisoners had filed an application for the postponement of the hanging on the ground that they might enter into a compromise with the complainant party.
The application was placed before Judge Bashir Ahmed Khoso, the judge in charge of the ATC-III, who deferred the execution for five days.
Both the convicts were sentenced to death by an ATC in July 2004 for killing Dr Ali Raza Peerani on sectarian grounds in June 2001 in the Soldier Bazaar area.
The prosecution said that Dr Peerani came out of his clinic in Soldier Bazaar and was about to drive off his car when two motorcyclists opened fire on him, leaving him seriously maimed.
He was rushed to a hospital where doctors pronounced him dead
He's dead, Jim!
on arrival.
The police tossed in the clink
Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un!
banned LJ chief Mohammad Ajmal alias Akram Lahori and his accomplices on June 29, 2002 within the remit of the Defence cop shoppe and they disclosed their involvement in the present case, it added.
A case was lodged under Section 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistain Penal Code read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 at the Soldier Bazaar cop shoppe.
Meanwhile,
...back at the argument, Jane reached into her purse for her .38...
the Sindh Bar Council announced on Monday that a complete boycott of court proceedings would be observed across the province on Wednesday in protest against what it described as the election of a corrupt man as prime minister.
According to a statement issued by the SBC, the council and all bar associations of Sindh will protest against the election of Raja Pervez Ashraf as the PM since the apex court had issued directives against him for his role in the rental power plants scam.
It said SBC vice chairman Ghulam Mohammad Abbasi, president of the Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It may be the largest city in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Bar Association Mahmoodul Hasan and chairman of the SBC executive committee Abbas Ali appealed to the lawyers of the province to stay away from courts, hold general body meetings and stage
rallies to mark the day.
Reacting to a reported move to make the chief justice accountable to parliament, they warned the government to refrain from making fun of the constitution.
An all Pakistain lawyers' representative convention held in Lahore on June 23 had announced that a black day would be observed across the country on June 27 against the election of Raja Pervez Ashraf as prime minister, but the following day the vice chairman of the Pakistain
Bar Council and the president of the Supreme Court Bar Association in a joint statement rejected the strike call.