Attack on police: LJ activist to be hanged on 15th
LAHORE: An activist of Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LJ) is scheduled to be hanged to death at the Central Jail on January 15 for attacking a police picket and killing two officials and injuring several others in Multan in August 2000.
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Multan had awarded death sentence on two counts, 40 years imprisonment and a fine of Rs260,000 to Zahid Hussain alias Zahida.
The court had announced that he would have to spend another 11 years and six months in jail if he failed to pay the fine. The court had also issued perpetual arrest warrants for Shahabuddin, the co-accused in the case.
Central Jail authorities have recently written to District and Sessions Judge Taufiq Iftikhar Ahmad requesting him to depute a judicial magistrate to witness the execution and attest Hussain’s ‘last will’, if there was any.
They said Hussain would be executed at 6.30am on January 15. The judge has asked Judicial Magistrate Imran Yousaf to witness the execution.
Hussain was wanted for several terrorist attacks.
According to the prosecution, on August 13, 2000, more than five police officials were on duty on a picket in Multan’s Seetal Mari area when Zahid Hussain and his accomplice rode there on motorcycles.
They opened fire when the policemen tried to arrest Hussain. Assistant Sub- Inspector Ghulam Rasool and Constable Arshad were killed and Muhammad Yousaf was injured in the attack. The suspects fled.
Police had later arrested Hussain.
Attack on police: LJ activist to be hanged on 15th – The Express Tribune