RAWALPINDI: The Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Pervaiz Ali Shah was transferred to Lahore on Friday amid protest from religious groups. The ATC judge who had sentenced Malik Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, was transferred to Child Protection Court Bureau in Lahore, merely a month after he was posted to Rawalpindi. The judge came in the limelight after he awarded death sentence to Qadri, despite threats and pressure from various extremist groups and lawyers. The judge had been unable to perform his duty due to the hostility of a certain group of lawyers and other religious groups who had been asking the authorities to hand Shah over to them. The lawyers had earlier asked the government to transfer the judge to some other city. The Rawalpindi District Bar had passed a resolution giving a five-day deadline to the government. The decision came after the nationwide strike by religious parties on Friday.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 8th, 2011.
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Well done Mr. Pervaiz Ali Shah, i salute you... You stood for justice.. and did not care about anything else.. only if we had few hundred more people like you in the courts we could make pakistan a better place..
Only people like imran khan r safe in this country.
This poor judge and his family should seek asylum in the West if he wants to live. Sad but true, his life and his family's life is not safe in any city of Pakistan. Perhaps he should be placed in Abbottabad?