Crash landing: Plea for removal of terrorism charge dismissed

LAHORE:

An anti terrorism court (ATC) on Friday dismissed an application seeking removal of Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act from the FIR registered against the Shaheen Air pilot Asmat Mehmood, who had crash landed a plane at the Lahore Airport on November 3. The pilot was then sent to the prison on a 14-day judicial remand. Earlier, Mehmood’s counsel submitted that there was no justification for a terrorism charge against his client as the crash landing was an accident. Judge Khawaja Zafar Iqbal dismissed Mehmood’s application and extended his judicial remand for two weeks.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 28^th, 2015.