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Application filed in SC Lahore Registry for registration of case against Nawaz Sharif over boy’s death

August 12, 2017

LAHORE, Aug 12 (INP) An application was filed in supreme court’s Lahore Registry Saturday for registration of a case against Nawaz Sharif and his supporter over the death of a 13 year old boy who had come to see the rally and was hit by a car in the convoy. The applicant pleaded that Nawaz Sharif and his supporters be tried in the Lahore High Court as was done in the case of former Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, who was later sent to the gallows. The funeral prayers were offered at Lalamusa on Saturday attended by PPP and PTI leaders. Reports said that the motorcade of Pakistan’s former prime minister hit and killed a 13-year-old boy who had come to a rally Friday at which Nawaz Sharif was protesting his recent ouster, officials said. Railways minister Khawaja Saad Rafique called the teenager "the first martyr of this movement for democracy" in an address to the thousands-strong crowd in nearby Gujrat. One of the vehicles in the motorcade hit and killed the boy as he crossed a divider on the road, the minister said. Sharif said in his Gujrat speech he would personally visit the boy’s home "and try to help his family for life". INP/AH/LK