Court admits appeal against Qadri's execution

October 11, 2011 13:09

Neighbourhood news:

The Islamabad High Court today admitted the appeal against Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri's death sentence for hearing, the Dawn, Pakistan reported. Qadri, the self-confessed assassin of Punjab governor Salman Taseer, was sentenced to death on two counts for murder and terrorism by a court on October 1.

On October 6, Qadri filed an appeal against the death sentence. Qadri had confessed to shooting Taseer dead outside an upmarket coffee shop close to his residence in the leafy capital Islamabad on January 4.

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