KARACHI: A special military court yesterday [May 10] sentenced a PIA driver, Mohammad Feroze Abdullah, to death by hanging for “deliberate killing” of four persons, including the Deputy Foreign Minister of Poland, and seriously injuring 10 others in the Airport tragedy case.

The 30-year-old driver was charged under MLR 12 and Sections 302 and 307 of the Pakistan Penal Code. … The Court President, Lt-Col Ahmed Said Bajwa, said that this is a case of its own kind where the accused planned a deliberate murder of the President of Poland, who was on a visit to Pakistan on Nov 1, last year. The Polish President luckily escaped when the accused rammed a PIA catering van into the line of dignitaries who were being presented to the visiting President. — Correspondent

[Meanwhile, as reported by agencies in Cox’s Bazar,] In two successive operations last week the quick moving Pakistan troops secured the entire deep south-eastern strip of East Pakistan lying between big village Ramu, about 10 miles north of here, and Teknaf town right on the Pakistan-Burma border, writes APP’s special correspondent Altaf Yawar.

Published in Dawn, May 11th, 2021