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Summary Awan said that even if Bhutto accepted all the charges, he should not have been hanged.
The chief justice said that what happened in Bhutto case was unprecedented in the history of law.An 11-member Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, resumed the hearing of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto’s case on Wednesday.The CJP remarked that all the people who were hanged during the martial law were also citizens of Pakistan and their appeals were also rejected. Should their cases be reopened, the CJP questioned from the federal government’s lawyer Babar Awan.Awan replied that the case of Bhutto was different because no one was ever hanged over complicity in a murder case. He said that if another case similar to Bhutto’s case existed, it should also be revisited. He said that just a day before the hearing of Bhutto’s appeal in the Supreme Court, the doctorial regime of Ziaul Haq sent Chief Justice Muhammad Yaqub Ali home.The CJP remarked that the court was sitting to review the injustice done in Bhutto case, adding that such discrimination was unprecedented in the history of law.
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