Sargodha attack: Court dismisses appeals of two convicts

LAHORE:

A division bench of Lahore High Court on Wednesday dismissed the appeals of two convicts who attacked a bus carrying Pakistan Air Force officers in Sargodha. 

An anti terrorism court had awarded them life imprisonment on eight counts each. Mohsin and Umar had filed appeals saying that they had been arrested for a different crime but the police had wrongly implicated them in the attack. They said they were innocent and were only convicted for political reasons. A deputy prosecutor general told the court that Mohsin and Umar had been found guilty in the investigation. On November 1, 2007, a suicide bomber had rammed his motorcycle into a PAF bus, killing seven officers of the Pakistan Air Force and three civilians on Faisalabad Road.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 26^th, 2015.