INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
running a campaign to get justice for his brother, a two-member bench comprising Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani heard
the arguments and set aside the ATC judgment and restored section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act in the murder case and transferred it back to
an ATC.Jawad Malik, nephew of former Senate Chairman and caretaker prime minister Miah Muhammad Soomro, had filed the petition through his
counsels Khawaja Harris, Akram Qureshi, Khawaja Naveed, Zain Qureshi and late Asma Jahangir.The petition had challenged the ATC decision to
drop terrorism clauses and transfer of the case to a lower court.The accused had approached the court in December 2016 requesting that the
anti-terrorism clauses be removed
The ATC-I Judge Kausar Abbas Zaidi had accepted the plea from the suspects in the murder case and sent the case to the sessions court for
further trial.Barrister Fahd Malik was killed on 15 August 2016 in Islamabad while he was at the Shalimar police station to act on behalf of
The police had arrested and booked Arshad Mehmood, Hashim Khan and Noman Khokhar.Speaking after the decision, Jawad Malik said that it took
him 18 months to get justice to cross the first hurdle
Allah has been kind and we are thankful that our case was heard on the merit
I thank all those people who supported our campaign
My brother was an innocent man and was killed in cold blood for no fault of his
businessman who has businesses with a vast portfolio, ran a long campaign to get justice for his brother and held meetings with several
parliamentarians in Britain
Former British Home Secretary Amber Rudd had written to Pakistani authorities to look into this case.The matter was also discussed in a
meeting of Home Affairs Select Committee here
The committee members had discussed that Jawad Malik and his brother ran successful businesses in London and could have chosen to stay in
London but decided to live and work in Pakistan out of love for their country but the mafia killed one of them, bringing bad name to
Pakistan.Labour MP Naz Shah, Sayeeda Warsi and several other parliamentarians also voiced their concern and anguish at the killing of Fahad
Malik and requested Pakistani authorities to take action against the accused
stood by him and raised voice for his brother.
