Peshawar High Court acquits four in Amir Muqam attack case

ABBOTTABAD: Peshawar High Court’s (PHC), Abbottabad circuit bench acquitted four accused of attack on former advisor to prime minister Amir Muqam in Battagram, ARY News reported on Wednesday.

An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) had convicted the accused and awarded them death sentence and fine.

Six policemen were martyred in an attack on Muqam, an influential PML-N politician, at Buttgram.

The law-enforcement agencies after the attack arrested two alleged planners of the attack on Amir Muqam in 2014.

The police had registered case of the attack on Swat Taliban.

Attack on Amir Muqam

Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Amir Muqam, who visited victims of Taliban attack on Peshawar school that left 135 dead, survived a roadside landmine blast on his way home, according to police.

Muqam, who was an advisor to then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and former governor of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was returning home after visiting hospitalised victims of the school attack when a bomb blast went off near his vehicle.

“A roadside bomb blast exploded as Muqam’s vehicle was passing by at Pish Takhar area of ring road at the outskirts of Peshawar,” senior police official Muhammad Ijaz Khan told AFP.