Overview
- Justice Iqbal Kasi approved bail for Sardar Sherbaz Satakzai with surety bonds of Rs500,000 after a lower court had rejected his request.
- The case arose from a viral video that showed a couple being shot dead in a remote area near Degari on the outskirts of Quetta.
- A police surgeon reported the woman was shot seven times and the man nine times as more than a dozen men looked on in the footage.
- Authorities say the killings were allegedly carried out on the orders of a local tribal jirga, prompting terrorism charges in addition to murder counts.
- Police registered the case under PPC Sections 302, 149, 148 and 147 as well as the Anti-Terrorism Act, and investigators named the woman’s brother Jalal Satakzai a prime suspect as her mother, Gul Jan, defended the act in a video while Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti condemned it.