| SHC dismisses state plea against complaint of.. |
| Friday, 29 August 2008 | |
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The Sindh High Court (SHC) dismissed a state application against the district and sessions judge’s order regarding the registration of a second FIR on the complaint of late Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairperson Benazir Bhutto in the Karsaz blasts case, because the application was withdrawn by the state counsel. In November last year the District and Sessions Judge (Karachi East) had ordered the SHO Bahadurabad to register a second FIR on the application of PPP chairperson Benazir Bhutto, who wanted to be a complainant in the blast incidents at PPP rally on October 18 that left more than 140 people dead and hundreds others injured. However, the state moved an application against the order, submitting that the sessions court had no authority to order the SHO concerned to register a second FIR because the case was already registered on the complaint of the state against unidentified people under murder, attempt to murder, and explosive substance charges read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act. It was contended that no controversy had arisen in the respondent’s application because similar facts were mentioned in the state’s FIR, therefore, there was no need for a second FIR. As the matter was taken up by an SHC single bench comprising Justice Syed Mehmood Alam Rizvi, the court was informed by the state counsel that the state had no interest in the application following the death of the respondent who was assassinated in Rawalpindi on December 27 last year. Vacating the interim order that suspended the sessions court’s order, the court dismissed the application following its withdrawal by the state counsel. In March this year, the police had arrested former Jihadi leader Qari Saifullah Akhtar in connection with the October 18 Karsaz suicide bombing case but later released him because sufficient evidence was not found against him. Akhtar’s arrest was made following the publication of Bhutto’s book “Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy & the West,” in which Bhutto had mentioned Akhtar’s name, accusing him of being involved in suicide bombing to assassinate her at the PPP rally on October 18 in Karachi. She further alleged that he had also tried to overthrow her second government in connivance with Army officials in the mid 90s. Akhtar served a legal notice on the publisher, printer and sellers of Benazir Bhutto’s book, claiming US$200 million in damages for allegedly involving him in the Karsaz bombings of October 18. |
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