Nawab Muhammad Ahmed Khan Kasuri

Muhammad Ahmed Khan Kasuri (1903–1974) was a Pakistani man assassinated on 11 November 1974, in a car ambush likely aimed at targeting his son Ahmad Raza Khan Kasuri, a critic of the country's prime minister. The son who was driving the ambushed car escaped unhurt.[1] The attack was allegedly on the orders of Pakistani Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

He was the judge and magistrate who signed and witness the hanging of Bhagat Singh. No magistrate in India wanted to witness Singh's hanging. British asked Kasuri to sign Singh's hanging and witness as magistrate, as according to British law, a magistrate is needed to witness hanging. The place where Kasuri was assassinated in Lahore is the same place where in British time the jail was situated where Bhagat Singh was hanged.[2]

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was later arrested and convicted in 1978 by the Lahore High Court and was hanged in 1979.[3]

On 6 March 2024, a 9-member bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan, Qazi Faiz Isa, the Supreme court of Pakistan, in response to the presidential reference provided an opinion that Mr. Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was not provided a fair trial as mentioned in Article 4 and 9 of the Constitution of Pakistan. [4]

References

  1. ^ "Pakistan Sentences Bhutto to Death For Murder Plot". The New York Times. Reuters. 18 March 1978. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  2. ^ Khalid, Haroon (March 2010). "In Bhagat Singh's memory". Daily Jang. Archived from the original on 30 September 2015. Retrieved 4 December 2011.
  3. ^ Niesew, Peter (4 April 1979). "Bhutto Is Hanged In Pakistan". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 18 March 2022.
  4. ^ "Reference by the President of Islamic Republic of Pakistan Under Article 186 of the Constitution to revisit the case of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto reported as PLD 1979 SC Page 38-53" (PDF).


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