Judge Azhar Khan observed that the evidence on record did not connect the two, Fazal Shah and Zain Shah, both residents of
Mohmand Agency... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
, with terrorism.
Police tossed in the slammer
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
the suspected snuffies on July 24 this year in the jurisdiction of Khazana cop shoppe on the outskirts of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, saying the two were riding a cycle of violence.
They claimed that Fazal Shah was wearing a boom jacket, while Zain Shah had a pistol and that the former wanted to blow himself up but didn't identify target.
Police said the boom jacket was later defused by the bomb disposal unit.
The two were charged under Section 7 of the Anti Terrorism Act, Section 13 of the Arms Ordinance and sections 3 and 4 of the Explosive Substance Act.
However,
denial ain't just a river in Egypt...
the court acquitted them under Section 265-K of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which empowers the trial court to acquit an accused at any stage of the trial when it realises keeping in view the evidence on record that there is no possibility of the conviction of the accused.
The lawyer for suspects said the statements recorded by the prosecution witnesses were full of contradictions.
He said one of the witnesses claimed that the BDU members were accompanying them; another said that they came to the spot later on, whereas another insisted they came to the cop shoppe and defused the boom jacket there.
The lawyer said even there were contradictions in statements about the time of the occurrence.