[DAWN] The Supreme Court has regretted that by raising arguments on the merit of the case and the sentence already confirmed, an attempt was made to re-argue the entire case on a review petition by the counsel representing Malik Mohammad Mumtaz Qadri, an Elite Force commando who had assassinated former Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
governor Salman Taseer for allegedly committing blasphemy.
"A review is surely not a rehearing of the main case and all contentions have already been attended to in the Oct 7 judgment under review in some detail," the apex court said in a five-page detailed judgment explaining why its three-judge bench had on Dec 14 rejected the review petition filed by Mumtaz Qadri through his counsel Mian Nazir Akhtar.
"No error patent on the face of the record was pointed out by Qadri's counsel against the Oct 7 judgment," said the verdict, authored by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, who headed the bench which had dismissed the review petition.
Mumtaz Qadri, who is undergoing a jail term in Rawalpindi's Adiyala jail, was convicted of killing Salman Taseer at a market in Islamabad on Jan 4, 2011.
On Oct 7, the Supreme Court had accepted the federal government's appeal seeking restoration of the Oct 1, 2011, capital sentence handed down by an anti-terrorism court and partial overturning of the Islamabad High Court's March 9 endorsement of Qadri's plea to annul Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997, though the high court had upheld the death sentence under the Pakistain Penal Code.