Convict in Imran Farooq case challenges verdict in IHC.

ISLAMABAD -- One of the accused found guilty in Dr Imran Farooq's murder case on Thursday challenged in the Islamabad High Court his conviction handed down by the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) .

The ATC of Islamabad had on June 18 convicted three accused - Moazzam Ali, Mohammad Kashif Kamran and Syed Mohsin Ali - in the MQM leader's murder case and awarded them life imprisonment.

Moazzam Ali filed the appeal against the ATC verdict in the Islamabad High Court.

Through the appeal, he informed the court that the ATC judge had convicted him despite the fact that evidence with the prosecution was insufficient to connect him with the crime.

He said he had been implicated in the case because of some banking transactions, adding that being a businessman, he had done several banking transactions with different individuals and entities.

According to the appellant, it was an admitted fact that he was not present at the crime scene at the time of the...

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