PAKISTAN: TWO MQM MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR MURDERING PTI LEADER ZAHRA SHAHID

August 31, 2018:

Concluding the trial of the murder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf senior leader Zahra Shahid, an anti-terrorism court sentenced the two accused – Rashid and Zahid Abbas Zaidi – to death.
During hearings, the prosecutor and prosecution team from the Rangers told the court that Shahid’s killers belonged to the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) and they had murdered her to create fear among the leadership of the PTI.
Zahra Shahid, the vice president of the PTI’s Sindh chapter, was shot dead on May 18, 2013, outside her residence in the Defence Housing Authority’s Phase IV.