Salmaan Taseer case: ATC judge goes on indefinite leave

Amid violent protests, Justic­e Shah has been receiv­ing life threat­s since the hearin­g of the case.


Express October 04, 2011

RAWALPINDI: Justice Pervaiz Shah, the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) judge who announced the verdict in the Salmaan Taseer murder case, has gone on leave for an indefinite period of time, Express 24/7 reported on Tuesday.

Justice Shah had been receiving life threats since the hearing of the case had started.

The ATC had sentenced Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, the self-confessed murderer of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer, to death on Saturday.

Qadri, one of Taseer’s elite force guards, shot and killed the governor for his views on the blasphemy law outside a restaurant in Islamabad.

COMMENTS (20)

Attif Abbas | 12 years ago | Reply

Probably Poor Judge didnt read the happenings and Verdict in Raymond Davis case.

Faction | 12 years ago | Reply

Dawn reports that the sentencing judge's courtroom was ransacked, with windows broken, in protest over his verdict... by dozens of LAWYERS! Not ignorant, uneducated street people but educated, trained legal professionals who felt it was okay to perpetuate mob violence against their own court, apparently in defense of the right of any citizen to commit vigilante murder in the name of Islam. Civilization in Pakistan is truly hanging on by a thread.

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