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Twitter alert: Rangers sentenced... what about Mumtaz Qadri?

Published: August 12, 2011

Security forces shot dead Shah, 22, on Wednesday, accusing him of robbery. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE

KARACHI: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday sentenced to death the Rangers personnel who killed Sarfaraz Shah.

Local Twitterati expressed mixed emotions over the court’s verdict, with some questioning the lack of justice in the case of slain Punjab chief minister Salmaan Taseer’s.

Ali Faruq

Such a speedy court decision on Rangers killing case, wish the same had happened with Mumtaz Qadri.

AamnaTaseer

@SalmaanTaseer’s case still await justice…

Ammaraul Haq

There is still justice in Pakistan! Sentencing out in the Pakistan Rangers shooting! Now for them to actually serve their sentences!

Jehan Ara

I don’t believe in capital punishment. Life imprisonment would have sufficed.

Ayesha Tammy Haq

Rangers killing case: Death sentence for one and life for the others and that’s what happens when cases are prosecuted.

Mirza9

If media pressure is what it takes for justice, you’re overlooking the real issue here.

Fifi Haroon

Don’t believe in capital punishment, rest seems about right.

Faisal Qureshi

Court gives death sentence to the Pakistan Rangers official in Sarfaraz case. How come the court never tries real terrorists this way?

Saeed Shah

If Pakistan courts can convict killers of Sarfraz Shah in two months, why not the jihadi terrorists too?

Ali Abbas Zaidi

Sarfaraz Shah murder: Justice served. Thousands of terrorists and killer of Salman Taseer: Just ice served.

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Reader Comments (22)

  • M Ali Khan
    Aug 12, 2011 - 3:03PM

    Killers like Malik Ishaq roam scot-free and Mumtaz Qadri remains protected from being tried.

    Wah Pakistan Wah!

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  • saeed
    Aug 12, 2011 - 3:10PM

    @Mumtaz Qadri should be hanged in public…people woh use religion of peace Islam as there tool to justify any king fo there personal brutality and sickness should be hanged in the public as they are damaging the whole religion..Shame on those who support this Killer..

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  • Asad
    Aug 12, 2011 - 3:23PM

    What about the sipah sahaba murderers and the karachi target killers with political affiliations?

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  • Ahmee
    Aug 12, 2011 - 3:32PM

    Justice needs to be served…I was/am not a deceased buff but i strongly stand with the demand of hanging QADRI for the reason to serve JUSTICE and to avoid such brutal and UN-human acts. This is a must for our society which is heading seemingly inevitable destructionRecommend

  • Architect
    Aug 12, 2011 - 3:39PM

    Why Qadri?, what about Damond Davis?Recommend

  • abdul jabbar
    Aug 12, 2011 - 3:50PM

    so the message is lound and clear: if you kill in the name of religion you will be allowed to get away scot free and probably have thousands of people throw rose petals on you and your family rewarded with money.
    if you don’t kill in the name of religoin then you’ll get hanged.

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  • mf hussain
    Aug 12, 2011 - 3:53PM

    easy to kill low level govt servants what about the evil Qadri, or the terrorist that can threaten their way out of justice.

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  • NAGB
    Aug 12, 2011 - 5:11PM

    @Arthitect
    because Raymond followed “shariah” and paid as per “Qisas” rule. Nothing common in both cases.

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  • Shahid
    Aug 12, 2011 - 6:26PM

    @Asad:
    What about ISO murderers and the karachi target killers with political affiliations?

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  • faraz
    Aug 12, 2011 - 6:44PM

    @Architect

    Raymond davis paid 20 crore Diyat, and the relatives now own a house in a posh area!

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  • T R Khan
    Aug 12, 2011 - 6:46PM

    The general public outcry and dismay has more or less forced the authorities to dispense this quick justice. The murderers of Salman Taseer and Ahmadis masjid massacre will slowly disappear in the sunset?

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  • Mirza
    Aug 12, 2011 - 6:56PM

    Qadri is the hero of lawyers, mullah/military alliance and of rightwing parties. His case would drag on for years in the mean time he has a comfortable life in jail as a hero of Islam. Nobody including our independent courts are in a rush to punish him and cannot release him due to the International pressure. If Qadri were a secular political party leader, the SC would have been chasing him day and night. Salman Taseer according to some was “liable for murder” and Qadri only did their dirty job.

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  • sashayub
    Aug 12, 2011 - 8:39PM

    @Architect:
    didn’t Ramond Davis pay ”khoon-b’haa” to the families and next of kin of the deceased?

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  • Ahmad Mukaram
    Aug 12, 2011 - 9:00PM

    This is a question that deserves an answer beyond a simple ‘YES’ or ‘NO’.

    Supreme court has given the kind of decision that people wanted to hear, regardless of its long term and national implications.
    I believe that Anti-Terrorism Doctrine, Karachi Situation, Extrinsic factors and the context have been ignored pathetically.

    However, if you isolate the incident from relevant contexts, then i would opt for YES.

    And to all these Qadri lovers/ Taseer’s murder justifiers:
    Its unfortunate that its because of people like you that Muslim civilization has lost touch with the reality and progress. Recommend

  • Mirza
    Aug 12, 2011 - 10:20PM

    Justice delayed is justice denied. In Sarfaraz Shah’s case the SC took swift action and made sure that the decision is popular in public. S. Shah may or may not be totally innocent but he did not deserve intentionally left “bleeding to death”.
    This only shows if the SC and its CJ “want” they can provide swift justice to even a questionable thug like S. Shah. On the contrary Salman Taseer was not trying to snatch the gun from the police, he was not a physical threat to anybody, his killer admitted killing Taseer, Qadri showed no remorse but pride and justification and so on. His case should not take even as long as S. Shah’s case, where the killing was not as clear and it was contested by the defense lawyers.
    After taking the heat from public, on M. Mai’s case the SC CJ wanted to make a public statement and he actully did. However, the same PCO court does not see a need to show any interest in Taseer’s killing.

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  • calm-like-a-bomb
    Aug 12, 2011 - 11:13PM

    A murder conviction after only two months of litigation? That is not justice! That is ineffective assistance of counsel. There is not one mention of the convicted man’s name, nor his attorney’s name. Did he even have an legal representation? Is he appealing his conviction?

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  • Observer3
    Aug 13, 2011 - 12:18AM

    If only we were this swift in punishing all the other murderers. How about the murderers of Saleem Shahzad–they need to be brought to justice too!Recommend

  • Aug 13, 2011 - 7:32AM

    First of all justice has been served and I hope the same would happen with Qadri or any killers (loads of them roaming free yet even captured on the cameras).
    However, i have seen people claiming that Raymond davis paid money according to sharia , well then you dont know sharia, As per the established facts, It is Pakistan Govt who paid the money . If we look at the case , Pak Govt infect should represent Pakistani Citizen not American, hence how come you pay yourself to satisfy the Sharia. We have already made Islam as Joke and its probably another evidence of it.

    To Express Media, what kind of a paper it is which makes news of some twitter comments and especailly of those selected by yourself own. To be a unbaised media , you got to put comments from various point of view not just whom u follow. Dont want to say beyond this.

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  • SA
    Aug 13, 2011 - 2:04PM

    Can anyone remember the victims of Sialkot incident? Is there a chance of justice being served in that case?

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  • Tauqeer satti
    Aug 13, 2011 - 2:10PM

    First of all salman taseer was not the chief minister of punjab. He was the governer of punjab. Secondly, yes justice must be provided to the family of Salman Taseer aswell. I think judges are scared if they give same decision in case of mumtaz qadri some religious extremists might kill them. So we must wait for 20 30 atleast years for the verdict to come out, that too in the favour of mumtaz qadri.

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  • Architect
    Aug 13, 2011 - 4:10PM

    @NAGB & faraz: Diyat??? don’t fool ur self Recommend

  • Aug 27, 2011 - 5:10AM

    Hang Mumtaz Qadri… or incidents will continue..

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