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| India-Pakistan |
| Justice on trial |
| 2015-02-04 |
| [DAWN] THE divide at the Islamabad High Court when it finally resumed the hearing of Mumtaz Qadri's petition against his conviction was palpable. Those condoning murder in the name of religion stood on one side -- against those prevented from standing on the side of justice out of sheer fear. The number of lawyers coming out in defence of the late governor Salmaan Taseer's assassin outnumbered even the security personnel deployed around the court that day. But no one was willing to appear for the prosecution. No sight could be more decadent than lawyers led by a former high court chief justice and another retired judge standing by a self-confessed murderer. It was perhaps the most shameful moment for a nation when a killer is lauded as a 'soldier of Islam'. |
| Posted by:Fred |