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Death warrant of MQM’s Saulat Mirza sought

KARACHI: Authorities of Karachi Central Jail  on Wednesday submitted an application with an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC), seeking  black warrant for condemned prisoner, Saulat Mirza, an activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) who killed former Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) Managing Director Shahid Hamid.

Mirza was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in May 1999 for murdering the managing director of KESC, his driver Ashraf Brohi and guard Khan Akbar in July 1997. His appeal against the conviction was rejected by both high court and Supreme Court.

His clemency petition had also been turned down by President of Pakistan and could not be executed due to moratorium on death penalty.

Pakistan on Tuesday lifted its moratorium on the death penalty in all capital cases, after initially restarting executions for terrorism offences in the wake of a Taliban school massacre.

 

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