LHC allows tribunal to start hearing in plea against rigging

LAHORE
The Lahore High Court Wednesday vacated the stay order under which it had barred an election tribunal from holding proceedings on an election petition challenging victory of PML-N MNA Mian Tariq Mahmood from Gujranwala.
Justice Shujaat Ali issued this order on a petition of PPP defeated candidate Imtiaz Safdar Warraich. The judge remarked that the ET could start its proceedings on the election petition.
The LHC had stayed the proceedings in November 2013. The judge issued this order as the counsel for Warraich submitted that the MNA from NA 98 was using delaying tactics to complete his tenure under the stay. He said his client’s case was fit for ET as the MNA committed rigging the elections.
dismissed: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday dismissed appeals of two terrorists against conviction of life imprisonment awarded them for their involvement in the PAF bus attack in Sargodha in 2007.
Earlier, an anti-terrorism court had awarded life imprisonment on eight counts each to them. Both terrorists, Mohsin and Umar, pleaded that they were arrested in another case but the law enforcing agencies implicated them in the PAF attack. They said that they were not involved in the attack and they were wrongly involved and convicted in the case. During the hearing, a deputy prosecutor general said that both were found guilty during the investigation and ample proofs were gathered about their involvement in the attack. He said that the ATC had awarded them punishment on merit. He said that the convicts were involved in facilitating the suicide attacker to hit the PAF bus.