Allama Turabis murder: Three get death penalty
An anti-terrorism court on Thursday sentenced three accused to death and awarded life term to three others in Allama Hassan Turabis murder case.
Judge Anand Ram, hearing the case in Karachi Central Jail, awarded death sentence and 0.1million fine each to Mohammad Rehman, Sultan Mahmood alias Saifullah and Mohammad Amin alias Khalid Shaheen for masterminding a suicide attack on the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal leader and also with planting a remote-control bomb to kill him.
Their three accomplices namely Mohammad Akbar Khan, Ashfaq Qureshi and Raheemullah alias Ali Hasan have been given life term. Sindh chief of the Tehrik-i-Islami and provincial vice-president of the MMA, Allama Hasan Turabi, and his young nephew were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the religious leaders Gulshan-i-Iqbal residence on July 14, 2006.
In an earlier incident, the same set of accused had planted a remote-control bomb in a pushcart on April 6, 2006 to kill Hasan Turbi when he was travelling on Abul Hasan Ispahani Road in the jurisdiction of the Mubina Town police station. However, he had escaped unhurt in the attempt, it added.
Iran Calls Political Opponents Enemies Of Islam
March 10, 2010 by Trend PK
Filed under World News
A traditional Islamic concept about protecting the faith and its followers has become a judicial weapon for Iran’s rulers: charging opponents as so-called enemies of God with the threat of possible death sentences.
Iran’s accusations of “moharebeh”, literally “waging war” in Arabic, have opened deep rifts between ruling clerics and Islamic scholars questioning how an idea about safeguarding Muslims can be transformed into a tool to punish political protesters. The outcry increased last week after an appeals court reportedly upheld the death sentence for Mohammad Amin Valian, a 20-year-old student convicted of moharebeh crimes, which Iran’s legal code defines as “defiance of God”, or the state and punishable by hanging. Valian’s case has become a new rallying point for the opposition as authorities try to further rattle protesters after crushing demonstrations last month. Valian has only admitted to throwing stones at security forces during anti-government protests in December, according to opposition Web sites. On Sunday, Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi said the student still can appeal. The case also highlights the huge perception gap in Iran. Opposition groups have declared Iran’s leadership politically bankrupt after alleged vote-rigging and violence. But hard-line supporters of the Islamic system consider it answerable only to God. Valian is among a dozen people convicted of moharebeh offenses, said Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the New York-based International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Hundreds more are in detention and have yet to face the courts, which are directly controlled by the ruling theocracy.
Curfew-imposed Situation in Kashmir Valley After youths’ Murder in Sopore
Curfew-like situation prevailed in the Kashmir Valley Wednesday as authorities imposed stringent restrictions on the movement of people to prevent separatists from staging protest rallies and demonstrations on the fourth day ceremony of two youths killed in the alleged Army firing last week.
Thousands of police and paramilitary forces’ personnel have been deployed here and other major towns of the Valley as the separatists had called for observance of a general strike to protest against the “cold-blooded” murder of two youths in Sopore town of north Kashmir on Saturday.
Mohammad Amin Tantray and Javid Ahmad were killed and another youth, Firdous Ahmad, was injured in a firing incident at Bumai-Sopore, 55 km from here, sparking off massive protest demonstrations, prompting authorities to impose curfew in the town on Sunday.
The state government has already ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident while Army has also ordered a court of inquiry.
While locals alleged that the troops of 22 Rashtriya Rifles opened indiscriminate fire on the group of youth without any provocation, Army maintains that the two youths were killed in cross-fire between the security forces and militants.
Curfew-imposed Situation in Kashmir Valley After youths’ Murder in Sopore was first posted on February 25, 2009 at 11:59 am.
