gazoomartian
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Gazoo's Note: The SC should grant the transfer of case because Maqbool has been only lucky so far that they havent caught up with him yet. Any Police officer who investigates will see his fate in a bloody coffin by the murderers.
ISLAMABAD: In what may turn out to be another legal battle for the ruling party, the Supreme Court will take up on Monday a petition of Rana Maqbool, a former inspector general of Sindh, who, sensing a threat from the PPP and the MQM, has sought the transfer of a criminal case against him from Karachi.
He has been accused of hatching a conspiracy to kill President Asif Ali Zardari when he was imprisoned in Karachi’s Central Jail.
After hearing petitions challenging the 18th Amendment, a three-judge bench comprising Justice Tassadduq Hussain Jillani, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa will take up Rana Maqbool’s plea.
Filed through Advocate Mohammad Akram Sheikh, the petitioner requested the apex court to order transfer of the case from the court of additional sessions judge, Karachi South, to any other province or Islamabad because he feared for his life in Sindh.
“There is a reasonable apprehension that the PPP-led government can exert considerable influence, especially in Sindh, to maliciously implicate me (Maqbool) in other false cases in order to humiliate and torture me,” the petition argued. In his petition, Mr Maqbool has referred to the People’s Party and Mr Zardari by name as a threat to him.
1990s RECALLED Rana Maqbool has also highlighted a general sense of insecurity in Karachi and threat to present and former police officers. Citing a special report compiled by the interior ministry on target killings, Mr Maqbool said that 83 police officials involved in the crackdown against the Muttahida Qaumi Movement during the 1990s had been killed.
He said that since he had led investigations into several terrorism cases and taken part in the crackdown, he could be a target of terrorist elements.
Mr Maqbool also requested the apex court to overturn the April 28, 2009, decision of the Sindh High Court. The high court had set aside an order of the additional sessions judge dismissing allegations that Mr Zardari had been tortured in the jail where Rana Maqbool was in-charge of investigations.
Known to be close to the PML-N leadership, Maqbool was appointed secretary to the public prosecution department by the present provincial government although he is facing a criminal trial. If this appointment was not enough to kick up a ruckus, he was caught in the middle of another controversy when he appeared in a picture, standing alongside the incumbent Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court, Khawaja Mohammad Sharif.
The allegations against Maqbool date back to events in the 1990s. Mr Zardari was required for investigations for alleged involvement in the murder of Justice Nizam Ahmed and his only son Nadeem Ahmed.
Justice Nizam was hearing a high-profile land grabbing case when he was murdered. Mr Zardari was taken into judicial custody and locked up in Karachis central prison at that time.
Source: http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect...tomorrow-maqbool-cites-ppp,-mqm-as-threat-170
ISLAMABAD: In what may turn out to be another legal battle for the ruling party, the Supreme Court will take up on Monday a petition of Rana Maqbool, a former inspector general of Sindh, who, sensing a threat from the PPP and the MQM, has sought the transfer of a criminal case against him from Karachi.
He has been accused of hatching a conspiracy to kill President Asif Ali Zardari when he was imprisoned in Karachi’s Central Jail.
After hearing petitions challenging the 18th Amendment, a three-judge bench comprising Justice Tassadduq Hussain Jillani, Justice Khilji Arif Hussain and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa will take up Rana Maqbool’s plea.
Filed through Advocate Mohammad Akram Sheikh, the petitioner requested the apex court to order transfer of the case from the court of additional sessions judge, Karachi South, to any other province or Islamabad because he feared for his life in Sindh.
“There is a reasonable apprehension that the PPP-led government can exert considerable influence, especially in Sindh, to maliciously implicate me (Maqbool) in other false cases in order to humiliate and torture me,” the petition argued. In his petition, Mr Maqbool has referred to the People’s Party and Mr Zardari by name as a threat to him.
1990s RECALLED Rana Maqbool has also highlighted a general sense of insecurity in Karachi and threat to present and former police officers. Citing a special report compiled by the interior ministry on target killings, Mr Maqbool said that 83 police officials involved in the crackdown against the Muttahida Qaumi Movement during the 1990s had been killed.
He said that since he had led investigations into several terrorism cases and taken part in the crackdown, he could be a target of terrorist elements.
Mr Maqbool also requested the apex court to overturn the April 28, 2009, decision of the Sindh High Court. The high court had set aside an order of the additional sessions judge dismissing allegations that Mr Zardari had been tortured in the jail where Rana Maqbool was in-charge of investigations.
Known to be close to the PML-N leadership, Maqbool was appointed secretary to the public prosecution department by the present provincial government although he is facing a criminal trial. If this appointment was not enough to kick up a ruckus, he was caught in the middle of another controversy when he appeared in a picture, standing alongside the incumbent Chief Justice of the Lahore High Court, Khawaja Mohammad Sharif.
The allegations against Maqbool date back to events in the 1990s. Mr Zardari was required for investigations for alleged involvement in the murder of Justice Nizam Ahmed and his only son Nadeem Ahmed.
Justice Nizam was hearing a high-profile land grabbing case when he was murdered. Mr Zardari was taken into judicial custody and locked up in Karachis central prison at that time.
Source: http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect...tomorrow-maqbool-cites-ppp,-mqm-as-threat-170
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