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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
SHC directs home secy to submit comments in Daniel Pearl case
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday ordered provincial Home Secretary to submit comments regarding the non-fulfillment of court orders. A division bench, comprising Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Shahid Anwar Bajwa, was hearing a petition filed by the co-accused Fahad Nasim, Salman Saqib and Muhammad Adil, who were sentenced for life on the charges of abetment in the murder case of US journalist Daniel Pearl. SHC issued orders to the home secretary to submit his comments regarding Mohammad Adil’s non-transference from Sukkur to Karachi jail. During the hearing, court asked for the shifting of Adil from Sukkur to Karachi jail while the Assistant Advocate General informed that the concerned authorities could yet not shift him. Meanwhile, Advocate Abdul Waheed Katpar who was the counsel of main accused Ahmad Omar Saeed Shiekh, appeared before the court and requested that he would like to withdraw from his counseling. The court ordered for his name to be excluded from the accused’s counseling list. It may be mentioned here that all four convicted and sentenced persons approached the SHC and filed two separate appeals seeking acquittal from life imprisonment given by an Anti-Terrorism Court. staff report
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