KARACHI, Pakistan: The former Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activist Saulat Mirza will now be hanged on April 1 after an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi on Tuesday issued his new death warrants.
Mirza was scheduled to be hanged to death in Balochistan’s Machh jail at 5:30 am on March 19. However, his execution was delayed because of health problems on the request of jail authorities.
Meanwhile, the Balochistan Home Department set up a committee to probe the video recording of the death row convict Sulat Mirza in Central Prison Machh.
The four-member committee headed by Inspector General of Prisons Balochistan Bashir Ahmed Bangulzai will submit its findings within seven days.
Saulat Mirza was sentenced to death by an ATC in May 1999 for killing the former managing director of Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) Shahid Hamid, his driver Ashraf Brohi and guard Khan Akbar in July 1997.
Currently detained in Machh jail in Balochistan since April 2014, Saulat Mirza was arrested in 1999 during Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government.
Last week, Saulat Mirza alleged that he killed former KESC director Shahid Hamid on the directives of the MQM Chief Altaf Hussain.
In a video statement from death cell aired on Geo News, Saulat Mirza alleged that he received the order to kill the then KESC director from Altaf Hussain at the MQM leader Babar Ghauri’s residence through telephone.
Saulat Mirza further alleged that people whom the party wanted to save from police torture are provided protection in police stations.
