Pakistan court orders filing of murder charges against Sharif

Update: 2014-08-17 23:01 GMT
A Pakistani court on Saturday ordered framing of murder charges against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his brother and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz and 19 others over the June violence near Canada-based cleric Tahirul Qadri’s headquarters here that killed 14 of his supporters. The Lahore Sessions Court hearing the case related to the Model Town clashes ordered police to register a case against 21 persons named by the Pakistan Awami Tahreek (PAT) in its complaint. Fourteen PAT supporters, including two women, were killed and over 100 were wounded in deadly clashes with police on June 17 after the authrities attempted to remove barricades near the PAT chief’s headquarters. The court’s decision comes at the time when Qadri, also the chief of PAT, and Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan are rallying in Islamabad with thousands of their supporters to topple the Nawaz-led PML-N government.

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