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ATC issues death warrants for Saulat Mirza
By Zubair Ashraf
Published: March 11, 2015
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KARACHI: An Anti Terrorism Court in Karachi issued a death warrant on Wednesday for a condemned prisoner belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
Mirza will be hanged on March 19 as per court orders.
Earlier today, Karachi Central Jail authorities approached an ATC seeking Mirza’s death warrants.
Saulat Mirza, a target killer, was sentenced to death in 1999 on charges of murdering former managing director of Karachi Electric Supply Corporation Shahid Hamid along with his driver Ashraf Brohi and guard Akbar Khan in July 1997 in Defence Housing Authority area of Karachi.
A court official on condition of anonymity confirmed to The Express Tribune that the letter seeking death warrants for Mirza had been received.
“His warrants will probably be issued today or tomorrow,” the official said.
Mirza was arrested by police officer Chaudhry Aslam in 1998 from Karachi airport when he was returning from Bangkok.
He is currently confined in Machh jail in Balochistan and will be brought back to Karachi to for his execution. Mirza and other high-profile prisoners were shifted from Karachi to other jails in 2004 owing to security concerns.
Read: MQM’s Saulat Mirza among high-profile prisoners shifted to Balochistan
Mirza’s mercy appeals have been rejected by all the appellate courts and by the Presidency as well. His execution remained blurred even after the moratorium on death penalties was lifted by the government.
Since, the government has categorically directed all the provincial home departments to resume hangings of all prisoners whose mercy petitions have been rejected, Mirza’s warrants are about to be issued.
Read: Govt lifts death penalty moratorium completely: officials
So far, after the Peshawar school massacre, 24 condemned prisoners have been hanged. At least 8,000 prisoners are still on death row confined in different jails across country.
Read: Capital offences : Govt rings death knell for 8,000 convicts
By Zubair Ashraf
Published: March 11, 2015
172 SHARES
Facebook Twitter Email
YOUTUBE SCREENGRAB
KARACHI: An Anti Terrorism Court in Karachi issued a death warrant on Wednesday for a condemned prisoner belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM).
Mirza will be hanged on March 19 as per court orders.
Earlier today, Karachi Central Jail authorities approached an ATC seeking Mirza’s death warrants.
Saulat Mirza, a target killer, was sentenced to death in 1999 on charges of murdering former managing director of Karachi Electric Supply Corporation Shahid Hamid along with his driver Ashraf Brohi and guard Akbar Khan in July 1997 in Defence Housing Authority area of Karachi.
A court official on condition of anonymity confirmed to The Express Tribune that the letter seeking death warrants for Mirza had been received.
“His warrants will probably be issued today or tomorrow,” the official said.
Mirza was arrested by police officer Chaudhry Aslam in 1998 from Karachi airport when he was returning from Bangkok.
He is currently confined in Machh jail in Balochistan and will be brought back to Karachi to for his execution. Mirza and other high-profile prisoners were shifted from Karachi to other jails in 2004 owing to security concerns.
Read: MQM’s Saulat Mirza among high-profile prisoners shifted to Balochistan
Mirza’s mercy appeals have been rejected by all the appellate courts and by the Presidency as well. His execution remained blurred even after the moratorium on death penalties was lifted by the government.
Since, the government has categorically directed all the provincial home departments to resume hangings of all prisoners whose mercy petitions have been rejected, Mirza’s warrants are about to be issued.
Read: Govt lifts death penalty moratorium completely: officials
So far, after the Peshawar school massacre, 24 condemned prisoners have been hanged. At least 8,000 prisoners are still on death row confined in different jails across country.
Read: Capital offences : Govt rings death knell for 8,000 convicts
