PHC stays execution of TTP leader
Advocate Ali lifted questions over a clarity of a box record in a troops court. PHOTO: PPI
PESHAWAR: Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday stayed a execution of former orator for Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s Swat chapter, Muslim Khan, who was condemned to genocide final year by a troops justice on mixed charges of terrorism.
A PHC multiplication dais comprising Chief Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Muhammad Ijaz Anwar upheld a sequence on a petition changed by Muslim Khan’s wife, Nida Bibi, severe a troops justice verdict.
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The dais also systematic a interior method and other endangered departments to furnish a record of a box in front of a justice during the subsequent hearing.
According to details, Muslim Khan’s warn Advocate Tariq Ali sensitive a justice that execution orders for a former TTP orator were released by a troops justice for his “alleged involvement” in attacks on confidence army besides abducting Chinese nationals and others. He argued that a troops court’s sequence was after permitted by Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Dec 28, 2016, but giving Muslim Khan a conference event that was his ‘right’.
Advocate Ali also lifted questions over a clarity of a box record in a troops court. He pronounced a former TTP spokesperson’s family listened about a execution outcome by media. After evaluating a arguments, a PHC dais supposed Muslim Khan’s defence and stayed his execution orders.
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The PHC multiplication dais on Thursday accepted usually dual petitions severe a verdicts of troops courts and turned down 37 others.
Muslim Khan, who was arrested following a operation in Swat in 2009, was concerned in a murdering of trusting civilians, aggressive armed army and law coercion agencies, that resulted in a deaths of 31 people, including Inspector Sher Ali, and injuries to 69 others, according to a Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).
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