SHANGLA: District and sessions judge here on Saturday handed down death sentence to four ‘contract killers’ and life imprisonment to five others for killing three brothers and their father over property dispute in Bagyar area of Puran in 2021. According to the case of prosecution, the accused had entered the house of Gul Zareen at midnight and killed him and his three sons except a minor who was saved by the women by hiding him under the blankets. A murder case was registered on the complaint of Gul Zareen’s daughter in 2021 at police station Alpuri, in which she had nominated her two step brothers Bakht Zaman and Phelwan for planning the murder of her father and brothers. Sultan Rome advocate, the counsel of complainant party told Dawn that after rounds of trials, the court decided the case and awarded death four times and a fine of Rs 50,000 each to hired assassins Sayab, Sher Alam, Iqbal Hussain and Haji Nawab. He said the court also sentenced accused Bakht Zaman and...
ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa has raised nine questions in a letter to the Supreme Court’s registrar, seeking clarification on how a Sept 14 clarification order was uploaded to the top court’s website. The Sept 14 order, issued by eight judges led by senior puisne judge Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, criticised the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) for failing to implement the Supreme Court’s July 12 judgement, which declared the PTI eligible for reserved seats in parliament. In his letter dated Sept 21, the CJP wondered who directed the uploading of the Sept 14 clarification order on the Supreme Court’s website. His inquiry followed a note from the Deputy Registrar (Judicial), who flagged the issue of the order’s appearance on the website. The note questioned how the order was uploaded when no cause list had been issued, no notices had been sent to the parties, and the order had not been received by the deputy registrar’s office until 8pm on the...