PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday suspended the executionof a man — convicted of terrorism by a military court — after his sentencewas challenged.
Subsequently, notices were issued to the federal minister of defence.
The order was issued by the two-judge bench of the Peshawar High Court(PHC), comprising Justice Qalandar Ali Khan and Justice Muhammad Ayub, asthey held a preliminary hearing of a writ petition filed by Sadaqat Begum.
Begum, who submitted through her lawyer Akhunzad Asad Iqbal, contended thatthe convict in the case, her husband Shakir Ullah, is innocent.
She further argued that her husband was not given an opportunity to defendhimself in the military court.
A resident of Dir, the petitioner told the court that her husband wentmissing on April 19, 2010. Unable to locate him, Begum said that they hadlodged an FIR for his disappearance at the Pahari Pura police station inPeshawar.
After eight years, Iqbal said, Begum received a letter on June 11, 2018,informing them that Shakir Ullah was locked up in the Kohat intermentcentre and that he has been sentenced to death by a military court.