Blast at Darbar Hazrat Sakhi Sarwar

MULTAN: A division bench of the Lahore High Court, Multan Bench, on Tuesday rejected the appeals of two convicts involved in a blast at Darbar Hazrat Sakhi Sarwar, Dera Ghazi Khan, in which 54 people were killed and 73 others injured in 2011.
The court upheld the decision of the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC), DG Khan, in its short order announced on Tuesday evening.The appellants Behram Khan alias Sufi Baba and Omar Fidai, belonging to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, had filed separate appeals against the ATC’s decision to award death sentence on 105 counts to Behram Khan besides life imprisonment on three counts and 10-year jail on 73 counts. The court had also fined him Rs 129.6 million. Omar Fidai had been awarded life imprisonment on 106 counts and fined Rs 129.6 million. According to the prosecution, four suspects tried to enter Darbar Hazrat Sakhi Sarwar on Apr 3, 2011 and the blast occurred soon after security personnel asked them to queue up. After 20 minutes, another blast occurred at the back of the shrine and the police found an injured suicide bomber there.