Two years on, still no probity for Sabeen Mahmud
KARACHI: The second genocide anniversary of amicable romantic and a owner of T2F Sabeen Mahmud was celebrated on Monday. It was on Friday, Apr 24, 2015 when armed gunmen travelling on a motorcycle shot Sabeen in her automobile nearby Defence Central Library moments after she had left T2F after attending a session. Her aged mom was also bleeding in a attack.
Sabeen, along with her mother, left a premises of T2F around 9pm, scarcely an hour after a event had ended. Travelling in a white Suzuki Swift, they reached a Defence Central Library trade light when armed motorcyclists intercepted them and non-stop fire. Sabeen, who perceived 4 bullet injuries, died on a spot, while her mom was critically injured.
CTD kills think behind Chaudhry Aslam, Amjad Sabri murder
A troops constable, Ghulam Abbas, who worked as Sabeen’s motorist and was a declare to her killing, was also shot passed in a city’s Korangi area on Sep 7, 2015, reduction than 5 months after her murder.
Following a attack, an FIR was purebred during a Defence troops hire underneath sections 302, 324 and 7 of a Anti-Terrorism Act.
A breakthrough in Sabeen’s murder box happened in June, 2015, when a troops claimed to have destitute a squad of militants that had pounded a train transporting members of a Ismaili village nearby Safoora Goth. Some of a arrested squad members also confessed to their impasse in murdering Sabeen since of ‘her views about Lal Masjid’s minister Abdul Aziz, Valentine’s Day and a burqa (veil)’.
The arrested suspects enclosed Saad Aziz alias Tin Tin, Tahir Hussain Minhas alias Sain, Asadur Rehman alias Malik, Hafiz Nasir alias Yasir and Muhammad Azhar Ishrat alias Majid. They were attempted by a troops court, that subsequently awarded them a genocide chastisement on charges that enclosed Sabeen’s murder. The afterwards arch of army staff, General Raheel Sharif, on May 2016, sealed a genocide warrants for a 5 ‘hardcore terrorists’.
ATC to accuse Saad Aziz, Tahir Minhas in 5 some-more cases
Another member of a gang, Ali Rehman alias Tona, was arrested after and also awarded a genocide chastisement after a troops justice trial.
“It was not easy to snippet and detain them though Allah done it possible,” pronounced Counter-Terrorism Department Incharge Raja Omar Khattab, who arrested Sabeen’s killers. He combined that a terrorists who killed Sabeen primarily belonged to alQaeda though after grown differences with a beliefs and wanted to join Da’ish.
Khattab pronounced Saad Aziz and Ali Rehman had killed Sabeen and had been awarded a genocide sentence. “They have challenged their convictions. Let’s see what becomes of their plea,” he said.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1392504/two-years-still-no-justice-sabeen-mahmud/