A lower court on Thursday declared Shohada Foundation of Pakistan Trust (SFPT) application for registration of second FIR pertaining to the Lal Masjid operation maintainable, and transferred it for hearing by an Additional Sessions Judge.
The District Session Judge Islamabad West, Nazir Ahmed resumed the hearing of a petition filed by SFPT which represents all the victims of Lal Masjid-Jamia Hafsa, seeking the court to issue direction for filing of a second FIR of the incident against former Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz and his Cabinet Members who had accorded approval to the operation.
During the course of proceedings, the Judge declared the petition maintainable, and transferred it to the Additional Session Judge, Skindar Khan, for hearing. Malik Abdul Haq, the counsel for the petitioner, contended that the Additional Session Judge Wajid Ali Khan had recused himself from hearing the application on grounds that he was already hearing an application on similar issue (murder case of Abdul Rashid Ghazi and his mother).
He maintained that the first FIR was registered on the complaint of Haroon al Rashid and now the application for second FIR was filed by one of the members of the Trust, Jan Muhammad Qureshi, whose son, Shahzad Qureshi, had also been killed on July 5, 2007. He pleaded before the Judge to either himself hear the matter or refer it to any other Additional Session judge for hearing.
Station House Officer (SHO) Abpara Police station and Advocate Akhter Shah counsel for former president General Pervaiz Musharraf (Retd) were also present in the court. Musharaf's counsel Akhter Shah contended that an FIR had already been registered against his client in a Lal Masjid Operation case; he added that the SFPT had also nominated his client as major accused in second FIR application. He pleaded the court to issue direction for the exclusion of Musharraf's name from the SFPT application.
The court declared the petition maintainable and transferred to the court of Additional and Sessions Judge Skindar Khan for hearing. Earlier, the Shohada Foundation of Pakistan Trust (Trust) filed an application in the court, seeking the court to direct the police to register second FIR of Lal Mashid incident against General Pervez Musharraf (Retd), former primer Shaukat Aziz, PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain, Tariq Azeem, former Parliamentary Minister, Ejazul Haq, former minister of religious Affairs, Muhammad Ali Durrani, former Minister Information, Aftab Sherpao, former Minister Interior, Khurshid Kasuri, former Minister Foreign affairs, Chaudhry Pervaiz Ilahi, former Chief Minister Punjab, Faisal Saleh Hayat, former Minister Environment, Javaid Iqbal Cheema, Director Crisis Management, Syed Kamal Shah, former Secretary Interior, Khalid Pervaiz , former Chief Commissioner Islamabad, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed, former Minister Pakistan Railway, and Kamran Lashari, former Chairman CDA.
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