Two men handed down death penalty in senior lawyer, son’s murder case

Karachi
Two men were handed down the death penalty by an anti-terrorism court on Wednesday for the murder of a senior lawyer and his son in 2012.
Mohsin Baloch and Abid Kaloo, both Lyari-based gangsters, were found guilty of killing Salahuddin Haider, former president of the Malir Bar Association, and his son, Arslan Haider, who was also a lawyer, on March 24, 2012.
Judge Anand Ram, after examining the evidence, found the two men guilty of committing the dual murder.
Haider and his son were heading towards the Malir Courts when they were attacked in Ghazi Town.
The city’s legal fraternity had protested against the killing of their colleagues by boycotting courts.
The then chief justice of the Sindh High Court had token notice of the incident and ordered the sessions judge Malir to investigate it.
The case against the two men was registered under sections 302/34 and 7 of the Anti- Terrorism Act of 1997 on behalf of Syed Kazim Raza, the other son of Salahuddin Haider.
Following an attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar in December last year, the government lifted the moratorium on the death penalty and now the terrorists and killers whose mercy petitions have been rejected by President Mamnoon Hussain are being hanged.