 Mushtaq Ahmed, a man convicted of plotting to assassinate President General Pervez Musharraf, on Tuesday filed an instant appeal in the Supreme Court after the Lahore High Court upheld his death sentence. Ahmed, who was in the Pakistan Air Force, was to be sent to gallows in the wee hours of Wednesday (today) after the dismissal of his appeal by the LHC's Rawalpindi bench on Tuesday. He moved the Supreme Court by filing an instant appeal which would be heard by the chief justice of Pakistan today (Wednesday). His execution has been stayed until the disposal of his appeal in the Supreme Court.
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