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| Main accused in Ahsan Iqbal assassination case handed 30 years in jail |
| 2018-10-28 |
| [DAWN] An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Gujranwala on Saturday handed Abid Hussain, the main accused in the Ahsan Iqbal liquidation case, 30 years and two months in prison while acquitting four others accused of facilitating him, DawnNewsTV reported. Judge Syed Ali Imran also handed fines to the tune of Rs280,000 and ordered the convict's assets to be confiscated. Former interior minister Ahsan Iqbal had been shot at and injured during a corner meeting in Kanjrur town in Narowal on May 6, 2018, in what had been described as an liquidation attempt. District Police Officer (DPO) Imran Kishwar had told DawnNewsTV at the time that Iqbal was shot by the assailant ─ who was also present at the corner meeting ─ with a 30-bore pistol from a distance of 20 yards. Iqbal had sustained a bullet wound in his right shoulder, the DPO had added. Thankfully, the people standing around the assailant overpowered him before he could fire a second shot at his target. The coppers present at the site then locked away I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! the suspect, seized his weapon and shifted him to a cop shoppe. The interior minister was initially shifted to District Headquarters Hospital Narowal following the attack, but was later airlifted in a helicopter to Lahore where he received further medical treatment. The suspected shooter had been immediately taken into custody. At the time, he was identified as a local 20 to 22-year-old youth residing in the jurisdiction of the Shah Gharib cop shoppe in Kanjrur tehsil. It later emerged that the suspect had had a declared affiliation with the Tehrik-e-Labbaik. In a preliminary report sent to the 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.... chief secretary hours after the attack, the Narowal deputy commissioner had reported that the suspect had identified himself as Abid Hussain, son of Mohammad Hussain, a resident of Verum village, Tehsil Shakargarh of Narowal district. |
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