ISLAMABAD – Pakistani man was sentenced to 18 years in jail by ananti-terrorism court for hurling shoe at a judge, the first such sentencein the country’s history.
The convict Ijaz Ahmed, a resident of Muzaffargarh, about 400 km fromLahore, had hurled a shoe on senior civil judge Zahid Qayyum during ahearing on March 20.
Ijaz, an undertrial suspect in a robbery case, threw the shoe whilecomplaining that he was being languished in the jail despite bail but wasnot being released due to absence of written release orders.
After the incident, Ahmed was booked under terrorism and other sections ofthe Pakistan Penal Code.
ATC Judge Khalid Mehmood Malik also imposed a fine of Rs 3 million on theconvict.
Meanwhile, a former seminary student who hurled a shoe at Pakistan’s oustedprime minister Nawaz Sharif in March in Lahore was released from prison onbail after withdrawing terrorism charges from the FIR.
According to the counsel of the accused, his client did not belong to anypolitical party nor had any political motive.