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| Former PIA engineer given 10 years’ imprisonment for funding Safoora carnage |
| 2017-08-06 |
| [DAWN] An antiterrorism court on Friday sentenced a former engineer of Pakistain International Airlines to 10 years’ imprisonment for financing the Safoora Goth bus carnage. Khalid Yusuf Bari was found guilty of funding the carnage in which 47 Shia Ismaili community members, including eight women, were rubbed out in an attack on their bus near Safoora Goth on May 13, 2015. The ATC-VI judge also imposed a fine of Rs100,000 on him and in case of default the convict would have to undergo an additional six months in prison. According to the prosecution, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police had tossed in the slammer Book 'im, Mahmoud! Khalid in September 2015 for providing funds to Saad Aziz alias Tin Tin, one of the convicts in the Safoora Goth bus carnage case. Paperwork was started but nothing else was done against the accused under Section 11-H (fundraising for terrorism) of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997 at the CTD cop shoppe. The jail authorities produced Khalid before the judge on Friday. Following the pronouncement of the verdict, the court sent him to jail along with conviction warrant to serve out the awarded sentence. The military court had sentenced Saad Aziz, Tahir Minhas, Asadur Rehman, Mohammad Azhar Ishrat and Hafiz Nasir Ahmed to death in May 2016 in the Safoora Goth carnage and several other cases of terrorism including assassination'>assassination of social activist Sabeen Mahmud. The military courts had acquitted former Fishermen Cooperative Society vice chairman Sultan Qamar Siddiqui, his brother Hussain Qamar Siddiqui and Sajid Naeem of the charges of facilitating the Safoora Goth carnage. |
| Posted by:Fred |