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FAISALABAD, Jul 31 (APP): Special Judge Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) Javaid Iqbal Sheikh has pronounced verdicts in three cases of 9th May mayhem and convicted 196 accused while 88 others were acquitted from the charges.
Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Omar Ayub, Leader of Opposition in Senate Shibli Faraz, Zartaj Gul, Sheikh Rashid Shafique, Bilal Ejaz and Kanwal Shozab were convicted in all three cases.
According to the prosecution, Civil Line police had registered a case (The State vs. Muhammad Ali, etc. vide FIR No.832/2023) against 185 people on charge of attacking office of a sensitive agency and the ATC Judge convicted 108 accused in this case while 77 were acquitted.
In Civil Line case, the learned judge awarded 10-year imprisonment to each of 107 accused while one accused Junaid Afzal Sahi was handed down with 3-year imprisonment in this case.
Among other convicts included Leader of Opposition in the National Assembly Omar Ayub, Leader of Opposition in Senate Shibli Faraz, Mst. Zartaj Gul, Sheikh Rashid Shafique, Bilal Ejaz, Mst. Kanwal Shozab, Sahibzada Hamid Raza, Ashraf Sohna, Rai Hassan Nawaz, Rai Murtaza Iqbal, Mst. Farrah Agha, Mst. Farkhanda Kokab, Muhammad Ahmed Chatha, Ch. Asif All, Shakil Ahmad Khan Niazi, Sardar Azeem Ullah Khan, Mehar Muhammad Javaid, Muhammad Ansar Iqbal, Abdul Rasool, Muhammad Shahbaz, Shahid Iqbal, Zaheer Abbas, Imran s/o Abdul Razzaq, Muhammad Amin, Zeeshan, Tayyab Hussain, Insha Azhar, Aamir Sultan, Muhammad Azam, Mohsin s/o Khursheed, Umair, Abdul Rehman s/o Shafique Shah, Aqib, Ahad s/o Tariq, Rizwan, Arslan s/o Nazir, Khalil, Balawal, Farhan s/o Maqsood, Ramzan, Abdul Rehman s/o Ramzan, Ahmad s/o Farooq, Afrasiab, Arslan s/o Sultan, Taqi Abbas, Zain Abbas s/o Javaid Iqbal, Rafaqat, Mehboob Ali, Muhammad Umar, Muhammad Waqas s/o Muhammad Hussain, Naveed s/o Safdar, Muntazir alias Moon s/o Umar Hayat, Ali Haider s/o Imran, Ali Raza, Sheroz Abbas, Mustansar, Imran s/o Rafique, Muhammad Asif s/o Muhammad Tufail, Haider s/o Raza, Sohail, Faisal, Usman, Waqas s/o Ramzan, Saqib, Huzaifa, Faizan Ullah, Nadeem Ahmad, Shahbaz Shakil, Syed Touseeq Hussain, Zain Abbas s/o Nasir Abbas, Areeb, Habib Ullah, Shah Zaman, Syed Qandeer Hussain, Jahan Zaib Khalid, Mst. Amreen Fatima, Ali Raza s/o Shafi, Bilal s/o Afzal, Moazzam s/o Aslam, Shafique s/o Mushtaq, Ayyaz Khan Tareen, Kashif Ali Khan s/o Karamat Ali Khan, Mst. Tehmina Riaz, Muhammad Azan, Nauman Ali, Asif s/o Khursheed, Dr. Qaisar Abbas, Asad alias Muhammad Waqas s/o Aslam, Kaleem Alam, Muhammad Nadeem, Rana Nasir Ali, Muhammad Younas s/o Talib, Muhammad Rehman s/o Ashraf, Rashid Ali s/o Muhammad Sardar, Naveed Sabir, Shaheer s/o Sajid, Saif Ullah, Abdullah s/o Nawaz, Bilal s/o Iqbal, Mirza Khan, Muhammad Kashif s/o Abdul Majeed, Matloob Chishti, Shakoor-ul-Faheem, Babar Saleem, Umar Tahir, Rana Aftab and Shaban Kabir.
However, trials of PTI founder, Shah Mehmood Qureshi and Chief Minister (CM) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Ali Amin Gandapur are yet to be completed whereas 77 accused were acquitted in this case.
Among them included Fawad Chaudhry, Zain Qureshi, Faiz Ullah Kamoka, Malik Jahan Zaib alias Zaibi, Rana Asad Mehmood Khan, Khurram Ijaz Kahloon, Bilal Ashraf Basra, Imran Saleem, Haroon Rasheed s/s Abdul Rasheed, Mst. Khansa Ijaz, Mst. Ammara Rasheed, Mst. Nazia Sardar, Ihtesham Javaid, Sahibzada Hassan Raza, Hassan Zika Niazi, Kamran Virk, Abdul Haseeb alias Tipu, Abu Bakar Siddique, Rana Munir Babar, Abid Ali Abid, Khalid Shafique, Mian Muhammad Tayyab, Shahbaz Ameer Ali, Muhammad Aamir Hameed, Bakhsh Ali, Muhammad Mudassar Ayub, Kashif Ihsan, Sajid Ali, Zubair Anjum, Rana Ali Gias, Najam-ul-Hassan, Mst. Qurat-ul-Ain, Muhammad Riaz, Sami Ullah, Faiz Muhammad, Muhammad Nasir Jamal, Muhammad Younas s/o Muhammad Siddique, Sufyan Hafeez Bhatti, Javaid Iqbal, Imran Ali s/o Ghulam Rasool, Sarfraz Ahmad, Sheraz Hussain Malhi, Muhammad Saleem Khan, Moin-ud-Din, Farhan s/o Hamayoun Khan, Abdul Razzaq Khan Niazi, Rana Israr Ahmad Khan alias Arslan Ahmad Khan, Zahid Mehmood, Makhdoom Ahmad Kausar, Suleman Bari, Sheharyar Ali, Muhammad Naveed s/o Anwar Javaid, Muhammad Awais Khan, Ali Anwaar, Muhammad Faisal Yaqoob, Rashid Qadeer, Usman Ashraf, Abdul Quddus, Aurang Zaib, Mst. Nargis Munir alias Nargis Naheed, Muhammad Abdullah Rao, Imran Ilyas, Abdul Mutlab Nawaz, Rana Aamir Hussain, Muhammad Anwar, Joyal Aamir Sahotra, Nadeem Aftab Sandhu, Zulfiqar All, Mat. Ruqayya Karim, Muhammad Farooq Sariq, Syed Riaz Abbas, Muhammad Saeed, Mst. Perveen Zaman Awan, Shahzad Akram, Muhammad Qasim, Muhammad Iqbal and Munir Ahmad.
Ghulam Muhammad Abad police had also booked 67 individuals on charge of besieging the police station and attempting to set it ablaze on 9th May vide an FIR No.1277/2023 (The State vs. Awais Akbar, etc.)
In this case, the ATC judge convicted 60 accused with 10-year imprisonment each while 7 accused were acquitted.
Among the convicts included Leader of Opposition in National Assembly Omar Ayub, Leader of Opposition in Senate Shibli Faraz, Mst. Zartaj Gul, Sheikh Rashid Shafique, Bilal Ejaz, Mst. Kanwal Shozab, Awais Akbar, Tahir Javaid, Sabir All, Muhammad Mohsin s/o Zafar Iqbal (juvenile), Ali Raza, Mubashar Ali, Nauman Jamil, Sami Ullah, Muhammad Shafique, Muhammad Afham alias Iftikhar (juvenile), Awais Ashraf (juvenile), Asad Ullah (juvenile), Shahzad alias Sajjad, Haroon s/o Khushi Muhammad, Farman Ali, Ihtesham Ali, Muhammad Salman, Muhammad Haroon s/o Abdul Rasheed, Saqib, Ali Hamza alias Ali Raza, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Qasim, Muhammad Irfan, Mehroz Khan, Muhammad Rehman s/o Asif Saleem (juvenile), Mirza Hassan, Abid Ali, Tahir Luqman, Mohsin Raza s/o Ghulam Raza, Faiq Zahid, Akbar Pehalwan, Khadim Almas, Muqaddam Iqbal s/o Muhammad Iqbal, Nauman Tariq, Abdul Rehman s/o Master Muhammad Akram, Shabbir Hussain, Muhammad Ahmad, Muhammad Yasin, Ahmad Naqash, Sameer Ashraf, Muhammad Rizwan, Muhammad Asim, Azeem Ullah Khan, Muhammad Ahmad Chatha, Shakeel Khan Niazi, Ch. Muhammad Asif, Mehar Muhammad Javaid, Mst. Farkhanda Kokab, Farah Agha, Rai Murtaza Iqbal, Muhammad Ansar Iqbal, Muhammad Ashraf Khan and Rai Hassan Nawaz.
Among the acquitted of Ghulam Muhammad Abad case included Sikandar Saleem, Shahzad Anwar, Muhammad Saeed Iqbal, Mian Muhammad Arshad, Makhdoom Zain Hussain Qureshi, Fawad Chaudhry and Khayal Ahmad Kastro.
In another case of Civil Line police station, the learned ATC judge also handed down 28 accused with 10-year imprisonment each after completing trial of 32 accused. Four accused in this case were acquitted.
The Civil Line police had registered this case (The State vs. Asif, etc.) vide FIR No.835/2023 on charge of putting an official vehicle on fire during 9th May riots in its jurisdiction.
Among the convicts of this case included leader of opposition in National Assembly Omar Ayub, leader of opposition in Senate Shibli Faraz, Mst. Zartaj Gul, Sheikh Rashid Shafique, Bilal Ejaz, Mst. Kanwal Shozab, Asif son of Maqbool, Ghulam Khan son of Akhtar Khan, Hikmat Ullah son of Karim Ullah, Shehzad Farooq son of Farooq Ahmad, Asim Javaid son of Javaid Iqbal, Muhammad Ashfaq son of Muhammad Abbas, Ali Ahmad son of Muhammad Saleem, Habkook Rafique Gill son of Rafique M. Gill, Muhammad Irfan Sarwar son of Muhammad Sarwar, Muhammad Umar Farooq son of Muhammad Siddique, Rai Haider Ali Khan so of Rai Salah-ud-Din Khan, Rai Hassan Nawaz son of Rai Muhammad Iqbal, Rai Murtaza Iqbal son of Rai Ali Nawaz, Shakeel Khan Niazi son Niaz Ahmad, Azeem Ullah Khan son of Ch. Sardar Khan, Mehar Muhammad Javaid son of Said Muhammad, Mst. Farah Agha w/o Muhammad Agha Shah, Mst. Farkhanda Kokab w/o Shabbir Ali, Muhammad Ashraf Khan s/o Muhammad Din, Muhammad Ahmad Chattha s/o Chaudhry Hamid Nasir Chattha, Ch. Muhammad Asif s/o Muhammad Ali and Muhammad Ansar Iqbal s/o Muhammad Ameer.
Among the acquitted accused included Khayal Ahmad Kastro, Makhdoom Zain Hussain Qureshi, Fawad Chaudhry and Muhammad Abdullah Khan Dumarr.