Court case: Cop testifies in sectarian killing case

The trial of Lahori from the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi continued inside the Central Jail on Monday.

KARACHI: The trial of Akram Lahori from the banned militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi continued inside the Central Jail on Monday. The case is being heard by the Anti-Terrorism Court-III and deals with charges of murder and weapons possession. Mohammad Ajmal – whose alias is Akram Lahori – and his accomplices Ataullah and Mohammad Azam are accused in the case, which deals with an alleged sectarian attack in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority in 2002. On Monday, a police officer testified in court that he had detained several men in the Defence area after the attack and had recovered weapons from the three accused in the case.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 5^th, 2012.