An Anti-Terrorism Court directed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) militants, Asim alias Capri and Ishaq alias Bobby to appear before it on January 6th. The prisoners have been convicted in the Qawwal Amjad Sabri murder case.
Asim and Ishaq’s case is one of around half a dozen pending terrorism cases. Despite already being convicted to death by a military court in April 2018 for the murder of Amjad Sabri, they also face further charges in 19 more cases pertaining to the targeted killings of military men, police personnel, polio workers and people belonging to the Shia community.
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) describes them as;
“professional hitmen, experts in killing their targets in public, and radicalized from a tender age.”
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The Amjad Sabri murder case convicts were recently transferred from a prison in Sukkur to Karachi. The ATC-XVI inside the central prison will see to the disposal of their cases. While the two LeJ affiliates have already been sentenced to death, it is believed that investigation of their other felonies will lead to more punishments.
All the investigation officers working on their cases have been directed by ATC to bring the respective case files to the next hearing.
Amjad Sabri Murder Case
Ishaq and Asim killed Amjad Sabri in a drive-by shooting on June 22, 2016. The two had been tailing Amjad Sabri’s car from his home in Liaquatabad on a motorcycle. Ishaq fired three shots from behind when he was within close enough range.
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A bullet catcher was attached to his pistol. The chamber got stuck. Due to this, Ishaq got down from the motorcycle, pulled out another pistol, and fired more shots from the right and from the front.
Once Amjab Sabri slumped in the driving seat, the assassins made a run for it.
Asim and Ishaq’s arrests were followed by the arrests of the Karachi chief of LeJ, Naeem Bukhari, and the deputy of Afghanistan-based al Qaeda’s South Asia group, Farooq Bhatti alias Munna.
