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Waqas Shah murder case: Last possibility for counterclaim group to furnish witness
- Updated: July 23, 2016
MQM workman Syed Waqas Ali Shah. PHOTO: MQM
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism justice (ATC) conference a murder box of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) romantic Waqas Shah on Saturday gave ‘last chance’ to a counterclaim group of suspected torpedo Syed Asif Ali to benefaction a declare in his support.
Ali, also an MQM worker, has been indicted of murdering his comrade during a criticism that erupted after a Rangers raided a MQM headquarters, Nine Zero, on Mar 11 final year.
The charge maintains that a suspect, regulating a pistol, shot Shah during a time when a paramilitary force resorted to aerial banishment in a bid to sunder a throng that had converged to criticism opposite a raid.
Shah, a 25-year-old MQM workman dependent with a party’s tyro wing, suffered a singular bullet that strike his cheekbone and pierced by a behind of his head, according to a autopsy report.
The MQM pronounced that a fatal gunshot came from a Rangers personnel, however, a paramilitary force refuted a allegation, changeable a shortcoming on Shah’s comrade. None of a Rangers’ crew carried a 9mm gun used in a killing, a force asserted.
So far, a dozen witnesses have deposed in a hearing court. The testimonies embody those of a dual paramilitary soldiers who explain they saw a indicted banishment and afterwards fleeing.
Ali was arrested 3 months after a occurrence in an ‘intelligence-based’ raid by a Rangers in Shahdadpur. The paramilitary force pronounced a think had fled a city to avert detain and a few tip MQM leaders, including Farooq Sattar and Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, knew about a incident.
The box is impending conclusion, however, a testimony of a declare corroborating a contribution confirmed by a counterclaim is awaited. On Saturday, a ATC decider asked a counterclaim to benefaction a declare on Monday or else a justice will hold their side’s arguments as sealed and will conduct for final arguments.
Published in The Express Tribune, Jul 24th, 2016.