Three handed down double death penalty

Convicts confess to killing WAPDA official on sectarian grounds

ABBOTTABAD:

An Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) in Abbottabad on Friday handed down the double death penalty to three accused and imposed a fine of Rs1.5 million on each for murdering a WAPDA official in 2016.

The convicts Shahzad Kiyani, Taimour Fareedon and Khalid Omer, who belonged to a proscribed organisation, were handed down the penalty in the killing of former WAPDA XEN Muhammad Yousuf on sectarian grounds in 2016 in Abbottabad.

The victim was deputed in Hangu while his family was residing in Abbottabad. He was killed in an attack when he was going home after parking his car in WAPDA Colony Abbottabad.

Later, police arrested Taimour Fareedon, Raja Mustafa, Omer Khalid and Shahzad Kiyani in 2017. Later, they were handed over to Shangla police and they confessed to the killing before the court.

The case was later transferred to the ATC Abbottabad which had released the accused initially on bail. However, during the trial, the prosecution succeeded in proving its case against the three convicts who were awarded the double death penalty by ATC Abbottabad Judge Sajjad Jan Khattak. With additional input from APP

One killed, two injured on road in Haripur

Meanwhile, a man named Farooq Khan was killed and his two friends were injured in a road accident on the motorway on Friday. Police said that the deceased was a government college teacher. Earlier on Thursday, at least four children died and 19 others were injured when a loaded truck fell into a deep gorge at Pind Kargo Khan Sherwan while taking a sharp turn.

According to the Rescue 1122 sources, a loaded truck which was carrying wheat flour picked 23 children from a private school of Pind Kargo Khan Sherwan and fell into a deep gorge while taking a sharp turn.

Rescue 1122 shifted the injured children to the Ayub Medical Complex Abbottabad while the bodies of the four children were handed over to the families.

The injured children who were shifted to ATH included Tashfeen Masood son of Masood, Naqash, Hamza son of Sadique, Waqas, Tanzeela Sidique, Saad Basharat and Hamza. Hareem Fatima, Ahsan son of Arif. Uraid Ahmed, Ramsha Bibi, Zohaib, Almughanya, Naveed, Anam, Danyal, Muqaddas and Inaya.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 28^th, 2022.