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Business News/ News / World/  Pakistan court to hold 2 hearings a week to expedite 26/11 case
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Pakistan court to hold 2 hearings a week to expedite 26/11 case

As the case could not be concluded within the two-month deadline it is up to Islamabad HC to take up Pakistan govt's plea to cancel Lakhvi's bail, an official says

Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi walked out of the high-security jail on 10 April after the Lahore high court suspended his detention under a security act. Photo: ReutersPremium
Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi walked out of the high-security jail on 10 April after the Lahore high court suspended his detention under a security act. Photo: Reuters

Islamabad: The Pakistani anti-terrorism court hearing the 2008 Mumbai attack case will hold the trial of the seven accused, including mastermind Zaki-ur Rehman Lakhvi, twice a week to expedite the case after Islamabad high court gave a two-month deadline to the trial court.

“To expedite the case, the court has decided to hold the hearing twice a week – Wednesday and Thursday," Raja Rizwan Abbasi, a counsel for Lakhvi, told PTI. The Islamabad high court in mid-April had ordered the trial court to conclude the Mumbai attacks case in two months. The two-month deadline ended on 15 June but the pace of the case did not improve.

The IHC had also warned that it would cancel Lakhvi’s bail if the trial court failed to conclude the case within the deadline.

A court official said: “The case could not be concluded within the deadline and now it is up to the IHC to take up the government’s plea for cancellation of bail to Lakhvi." Meanwhile, the trial court on Thursday summoned four witnesses for the next hearing on 24 June.

“Two witnesses who were to record their statements in the Anti-Terrorism Court Islamabad today could not turn up. So, the judge adjourned the hearing till next Wednesday and summoned (the) four witnesses," the court official said.

The hearing was held at Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi. Lakhvi walked out of the high-security jail on 10 April after the Lahore high court suspended his detention under a security act. The trial court had granted Lakhvi bail last December. 55-year-old Lakhvi is living at an undisclosed location since his release. He and six others have been charged with planning and executing the Mumbai attack in November, 2008 that left 166 people dead.

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Published: 18 Jun 2015, 10:32 PM IST
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