Pakistani court sentences TLP leader for 35-years

A top leader of the banned radical outfit Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) has been sentenced to 35 years in jail by an anti-terrorist court for inciting people to “behead” Pakistan’s then chief justice.  The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Monday sentenced radical Islamist party TLP’s deputy chief, Zaheerul Hassan Shah, for inciting the public against the then chief justice of Pakistan, Qazi Faiz Isa, in July 2024, a court official said.  ATC Lahore Judge Arshad Javed announced the verdict in jail proceedings. The convict was then handed over to the superintendent of Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore, he added. During the trial, the prosecution presented 15 witnesses in support of the charges against the radical cleric. Shah, in the presence of TLP chief Saad Rizvi, had offered a bounty to kill Pakistan’s Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa in July 2024.