Plot to kill former president: 2 denied bail
The men had planned attacks on Gen Pervez Musharraf in 2008.
RAWALPINDI:
A court on Wednesday denied bail to two men convicted in the case of planning suicide attacks on former President Pervez Musharraf.
Justice Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Saghir Ahmed Qadri of the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench set aside the post conviction bail application of Intikhab Ahmed Abbasi and Muhammad Kabir, who along with four other men were given life-term imprisonment on two counts.
The two men through their lawyer, Shaukat Aziz Siddiq, had asked the high court to suspend their conviction and grant them bail as there were “many doubts in the decision” of the anti-terrorism court and that the possibility of their acquittal in the appeal could not be ruled out.
The prosecution lawyers in the case had urged the court that the two men were important part of the group of 12 men who had planned to attack the Army House in June, 2008, with three vehicles laden with explosives. They should not be granted bails, they had said.
Intikhab Ahmed Abbasi, a resident of Islamabad, Muhammad Kabir from Abbotabad, Abid Khan from Attock, Muhammad Ishaq from Peshawar, Qamar Zaman from Dera Ismail Khan and Zafar Ali from Kohat, were convicted on August, 31 last year with sentence of life-term jail.
The court, however acquitted seven other men Muhammad Touqir, Muhammad Sajjad, Muhammad Zameer, Rashid Mehmood, Farhan Mehmood, Abdul Sattar and Noor Muhammad for lack of evidence against them.
The accused men were arrested from Dhok Kala Khan locality of Sadiqabad Police in June, 2008 and around 900 kg of explosives were recovered from their vehicles.
During the investigation the arrested men had informed the Federal Investigation Agency that they had planned to attack the official convoy of former president and the Army House.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2011.
A court on Wednesday denied bail to two men convicted in the case of planning suicide attacks on former President Pervez Musharraf.
Justice Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Saghir Ahmed Qadri of the Lahore High Court’s Rawalpindi bench set aside the post conviction bail application of Intikhab Ahmed Abbasi and Muhammad Kabir, who along with four other men were given life-term imprisonment on two counts.
The two men through their lawyer, Shaukat Aziz Siddiq, had asked the high court to suspend their conviction and grant them bail as there were “many doubts in the decision” of the anti-terrorism court and that the possibility of their acquittal in the appeal could not be ruled out.
The prosecution lawyers in the case had urged the court that the two men were important part of the group of 12 men who had planned to attack the Army House in June, 2008, with three vehicles laden with explosives. They should not be granted bails, they had said.
Intikhab Ahmed Abbasi, a resident of Islamabad, Muhammad Kabir from Abbotabad, Abid Khan from Attock, Muhammad Ishaq from Peshawar, Qamar Zaman from Dera Ismail Khan and Zafar Ali from Kohat, were convicted on August, 31 last year with sentence of life-term jail.
The court, however acquitted seven other men Muhammad Touqir, Muhammad Sajjad, Muhammad Zameer, Rashid Mehmood, Farhan Mehmood, Abdul Sattar and Noor Muhammad for lack of evidence against them.
The accused men were arrested from Dhok Kala Khan locality of Sadiqabad Police in June, 2008 and around 900 kg of explosives were recovered from their vehicles.
During the investigation the arrested men had informed the Federal Investigation Agency that they had planned to attack the official convoy of former president and the Army House.
Published in The Express Tribune, July 7th, 2011.