NEW DELHI: Pakistan Army’s Brigadier Raza Rizwan was on Sunday hanged foralleged spying for a foreign agency, after being awarded a death sentenceon the charges of espionage and leaking sensitive information to foreignagencies.
Rizwan was awarded a death sentence along with an employee at a sensitiveorganisation, Dr Wasim Akaram in May 2019. Further, one Lt. General JawedIqbal was awarded a life sentence entailing 14 years in jail by PakistanChief of Army Staff General Qamar Javed Bajwa.
According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations(ISPR), Lieutenant General (retd) Jawed Iqbal, Brigadier (retd) RajaRizwan, and Dr Wasim Akram, an employee at a sensitive organisation — wereconvicted of espionage activities and leaking sensitive information toforeign spy agencies.
“The officers were tried under Pakistan Army Act (PAA) and Official SecretAct by separate Field General Court Marshal (FGCM) for separate cases,”added the statement.
The ISPR statement did not contain any further details of the offencescommitted by the three convicts. However, Director General ISPR MajorGeneral Asif Ghafoor had confirmed the arrests of the senior officers in apress conference on February 22 this year.
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“There are two officers who are under military custody on the charges ofespionage. The Army chief has ordered Field General Court Marshal for them.Both of these are the individual cases and are not linked to each other,and there is no network as such,” Maj-Gen Ghafoor had said.
“There are two officers who are under military custody on the charges ofespionage.
The Army chief has ordered Field General Court Marshal for them. Both ofthese are the individual cases and are not linked to each other, and thereis no network as such,” Maj-Gen Ghafoor had said.
