Six get life term for plotting to kill Musharraf

RAWALPINDI: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment six men who had planned a suicide attack in 2008 to kill former president Pervez Musharraf and had accumulated a huge quantity of explosives for the purpose.

ATC-II Special Judge Raja Ikhlaq Hussain said in his verdict the convicts, Intikhab Ahmed Abbasi of Islamabad, Mohammad Kabir of Abbotabad, Abid Khan of Attock, Mohammad Ishaq of Peshawar, Qamar Zaman of Dera Ismail Khan and Zafar Ali of Kohat, had been sentenced for hatching a criminal conspiracy.

The court acquitted seven other men, Mohammad Touqir, Mohammad Sajjad, Mohammad Zameer, Rashid Mehmood, Farhan Mehmood, Abdul Sattar and Noor Mohammad, for lack of evidence. The decision was announced in Adiala Jail where the 13 men had been tried.

The six convicts were also found guilty of accumulating over 900kg of explosive material for an attack to kill Pervez Musharraf, then president of Pakistan, using bogus registration numbers and tempering with the chassis number of three vehicles seized from them.

Special prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali told Dawn that the convicts had been arrested on June 6, 2008, from Dhoke Kala Khan locality of Rawalpindi.

Federal Investigation Agency found the explosives concealed in 15 pressure cookers and large drums, six canisters of diesel, five bottles containing different kinds of splinters and three detonators.

Police arrest a man and Hijra who were marrying

Police has arrested a man who was marrying with eunuch (Hijra) in district Badeen.

According to BBC someone told local police of Badeen that a man Allah Bachayo was illegally marrying with a eunuch named Sharbat Fakeer.

When police reached the said place they saw Allah Bachayo and Sharbat Fakeer who put Mehndi on their hands. Sharbat Fakeer was wearing a red dress whereas some of their friends were also attending the ceremony.

In custody of police Allah Bachayo, said that eunuch ( Hijra) have hosted this ceremony just for fun and there was no Nikkah has been made during this.

He did not talk about the Mehndi on their hands and that why Sharbat Fakeer was wearing a red dress but he said “we are friends since 15 years and I will not lie because no one is sinless in this world”.

Allah Bachyao is a labor and Sharbat Fakeer lives in his neighborhood.

Sharbat Fakeer has said that the group of Malkani made him their group member and this ceremony was actually to receive gifts and his Guru also gave him a pair of gold rings.

Sharbat said that Nikah of eunuch is not possible.

A local journalist who was also attending that ceremony said that all the ceremony was held like a marriage.

According to him another eunuch Saima Fakeer made an agreement in which it was mentioned that Sharbat Fakeer is now given to Allah Bachayo and both of them are now partners whereas Allah Bachayo has also given a goat to Sharbat Fakeer.

Police has not filled an FIR yet and saying that the medical of both of them has been taken and after its report we will take our next step. If it is only about friendship then there is nothing wrong in it.

Eunuchs in Pakistan normally live an un-known life and no one knows about their life standards and their ceremony. The Supreme Court has already given an order to registered the Hijras all around Pakistan.