RAWALPINDI: In a late-night development, an additional district and sessions judge awarded death sentence to a security guard for killing an activist of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and acquitted four others, including two sons of Imtiaz aka Taji Khokhar.

Rawalpindi Additional District and Sessions Judge Rawalpindi Hasnain Raza on Monday night during a trial in Adiala Jail awarded death sentence and Rs200,000 fine to Sajjad Ahmed alias Shahzad for killing Nadeem Khokhar, a PML-N activist, over old enmity in February 2009 in Sadiqabad.

The AD&SJ acquitted Imtiaz Khokhar’s sons Umar and Farrukh, Shaukat Ali, Khalid and Azhar Mehmood. However, they were not released.

On the day of the occurrence when Nad­eem Khokhar arrived at his estate office, a double-cabin vehicle carrying six to seven individuals, including the two sons of Taji Khokhar, appeared at the scene.

The victim’s brother, Nasir Aziz Khokhar, had alleged in his FIR lodged with the Sadiqabad police on Feb 28, 2009 that soon after getting out of their vehicle, Umar Khokhar and Farrukh Khokhar along with other men opened fire and injured his brother.

Nadeem died after reaching the Benazir Bhutto Hospital.

Published in Dawn, January 24th, 2017