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| July 24, 2006 | Monday | Jumadi-ul-Sani 27, 1427 |
PPP workers’ case hearing today
ISLAMABAD, July 23: The case against PPP activists accused of attacking the Parliament House eight years ago will be heard in the court of civil judge and judicial magistrate Islamabad on Monday.
About 50 activists of the party including Naheed Khan, Nayyar Bokhari, Farhatullah Babar, Qazi Sultan Mahmood, Syed Ibrar Rizvi, Abdul Majeed Rizvi, Babar Minhas, Syed Ibn-i-Rizvi, Shahnawaz, Shabbir Babar, Jehangir Akhtar and Sohail Rumi have been charged with storming the parliament building on April 22, 1998 and threatening the National Assembly speaker.
The case was registered when PPP activists staged a protest rally outside the Parliament House against the anti-terrorism legislation, which gave sweeping powers to the executive. The demonstrators were forcibly dispersed when the police resorted to baton charge resulting in injury to many party workers and activists.
The protesters were demanding review of the law. Later the Supreme Court struck down various provisions of the proposed legislation including the one relating to the setting up of military courts to try terror cases.
A large number of protesters were arrested on the spot and sent to jail.
Initially the accused were booked under the anti-terror law against which they were protesting. Later however the government withdrew the terrorism charges and booked the protesters under eight different sections of the Criminal Procedure Code.
Meanwhile, the PPP has asked all those named in the FIR to appear before the court on Monday.
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