PAKISTAN: 2 LASHKAR-E-JHANGVI MILITANTS HANDED DOWN DEATH PENALTY FOR KILLING LAWYER

10 June 2019 :

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on 23 May 2019 sentenced 2 Lashkar-e-Jhangvi militants to death in an eight-year-old case of a lawyer’s killing in a sectarian attack outside a former judge’s residence. The ATC-VI judge awarded capital punishment to Jameel Ahmed and Muneer Ahmed after finding them guilty of killing the lawyer, Zain-ul-Abideen.
The convicted men were also sentenced to 10-year imprisonment for an encounter with the police.
Zain, 30, was shot by 3 men in a Suzuki Cultus when he was parking his car outside the house of a former judge of the Sindh High Court, Zawar Hussain Jafferi, a friend of his father, in Gulshan-e-Iqbal Block 5 on November 4, 2011.

 

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