Pak SC takes a relook at Zulfiqar case
Omer Farooq Khan, TNN | Apr 14, 2011, 06.50am IST
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan law minister Babar Awan resigned on Wednesday to take up president Asif Ali Zardari's reference asking the country's supreme court to revisit its verdict awarding death sentence to ruling PPP Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1979.
The People's Party government has thrown its entire political weight behind the case that started in the country's SC on Wednesday. At least 50 party stalwarts were present in the court on the first day of the hearing.
Bhutto's supporters, jurists call his execution a judicial murder.
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan law minister Babar Awan resigned on Wednesday to take up president Asif Ali Zardari's reference asking the country's supreme court to revisit its verdict awarding death sentence to ruling PPP Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1979.
The People's Party government has thrown its entire political weight behind the case that started in the country's SC on Wednesday. At least 50 party stalwarts were present in the court on the first day of the hearing.
Bhutto's supporters, jurists call his execution a judicial murder.
Justice Nasim Hassan Shah, one of the members of the bench that awarded the death penalty, has admitted in his book that there was severe political pressure on the judges from the then military ruler General Zia-ul-Haq to award Bhutto the capital punishment .
"I will give more priority to the case than ministry . It is a great honour to be the lawyer of ZAB,'' he said.
(source:timesofindia.indiatimes.)
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