Pak Ranger Gets Death Sentence For Killing Unarmed Civilian

By STAFF Writer
August 12, 2011

A paramilitary Rangers force member of Pakistan has been sentenced to death for killing unarmed civilian Sarfaraz Shah in June. Five other Rangers have been given life imprisonment along with a civilian by the anti-terrorism court today. A fine of 200,000 rupees and 100,000 rupees have been imposed on each rangers and the civilian respectively.

Sarfaraz Shah was killed in Karachi, which was caught on a video and televised through different media. This deepen anger of people against Pakistan security forces that were earlier considered as a failure in detecting the US commando raid in the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in May this year.

The video footage of the killing showed Sarfaraz Shah being shot by the Rangers in a public park at a close range in Karachi.

The civilian who has been imposed life imprisonment is seen in the footage grabbing hair of Sarfaraz Shah and dragging him over to the Rangers. One soldier shoots Shah twice even after he is seen pleading for mercy. The footage ends showing Shah falling to the ground in a pool of blood and the Rangers stood around.

Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik, despite any evidence in the video footage, claimed Shah had been carrying unlicensed weapon. Rehman's ministry is responsible for the Rangers.

Sarfaraz Shah's brother Salik Shah said, "We are satisfied with the punishment, and we hope that the higher courts will also keep them and overturn the appeals of the accused."


Earlier, after the shooting footage was broadcast, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan condemned it saying that extrajudicial killings are increasingly becoming common in the country. As a followup to this, the head of the paramilitary Rangers force and the Sindh police chief were fired by authorities in compliance with a Supreme Court order.

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Radical Muslim Cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir Charged For Provoking Terrorism

By BOB Goswami

INDONESIA NEWS - Indonesian police have alleged orthodox Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir with serious provocation of terrorism in the country that might carry him to death penalty.

Early August Mr.Ba'asyir was arrested for terrorism links as he was alleged to be involved in military camp in Aceh.

Prosecutors said they hoped to go to trial "very quickly".

Mr. Ba'asyir is not a clean man, earlier arrested and served jail for 26 months for involvement with Jemaah Islamiah (JI) who were behind 2002 Bali attacks. The 71-year-old radical cleric was jailed for conspiracy over the bombings in which 202 people were killed. Nevertheless, he freed in 2006 for lack of solid evidence.

He has been proclaimed as the religious leader of JI, which has linked to al-Qaeda - a claim he denies.

In 2008 a radical Islamic group was organized called Jemaah Ansharut Tauhid (JAT) and he is presently acting as a leader of that group.

Under Indonesian law, police will investigate the whole matter and then pass a dossier containing the results to prosecutors, who then decide whether to got to trial. Prosecutors said Mr. Ba'asyir convicted for multiple charges for various terrorism activities directly and indirectly under terrorism legislation.

South Jakarta prosecutors' office chief Mohammed Yusuf said that the most significant allegation against him was the instigation of committing crimes of terrorism, which carried death penalty. He further said that the police wanted to clear the case very quickly.

In another charge he is linked to the training camps in Aceh where militants have been trained to Mumbai-style attacks on the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.

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Osama in Pakistan, says US Vice President

PAKISTAN & AFGHANISTAN NEWS: Joe Biden, US Vice President said that the Taliban and al-Qaida leaders are hiding in Pakistan's tribal areas, where the US is fighting a war on terror. Even Osama bin Laden is hiding there he said in an interview to CNN.

Biden said, "In the FATA, the western part of Pakistan in the mountains on the Afghan border, that is a war on terror. That's where al-Qaida lives. That's where bin Laden is. That's where the most radicalized part of the Taliban is"

He also added, "The situation we have as it relates to problems that exist in other parts of the world, they aren't all related to terror," while replying to a question that if the
the Obama administration has stopped use of the phrase "global war on terror."

The vice president asserted there is a war on terror. He said that terror is a legitimate threat. It is a threat which comes from al-Qaida and all other organisations that have morphed off of al-Qaida, but there are other interests that the government have beyond merely - for example, the crisis in the Middle East is not at all a global war on terror. But it matters to the US mightily whether or not to end up with an accommodation between the Israelis and the Palestinians," he said.

Joe Biden said Obama administration is fully concerned that al-Qaida has reconstituted itself under the administration of in the mountain regions on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

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