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Summary Former chief justice of Lahore High Court Khawaja Muhammad Sharif will defend Mumtaz Qadri in IHC.
The hearing of the appeal against the death sentence of Qadri will be heard by a two-member bench led by Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Iqbal Hameed-ur-Rehman.Former chief justice of Lahore High Court Khawaja Sharif will defend Mumtaz Qadri, the accused killer of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer in Islamabad High Court (IHC).The panel of Mumtaz Qadri’s lawyers including former LHC chief justice Khawaja Sharif, Justice (R) Nazir Ahmad Ghazi, Justice (R) Mian Nazir Akhtar, Raja Shuja-ur-Rehman, Tariq Dhamial and Habib-ul-Haq, will be appearing before the court. Mumtaz Qadri signed his appeal papers today in Adiala Jail.Qadri confessed to shooting Taseer dead outside an up market coffee shop close to his residence in the leafy capital Islamabad on January 4. He said he objected to the politician’s calls to amend the blasphemy law.
