Overview
- An Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore convicted TLP deputy chief Zaheerul Hasan Shah and imposed a 35-year-and-six-month sentence plus a Rs600,000 fine.
- Judge Arshad Javed delivered the verdict after concluding proceedings in a case stemming from a July 2024 rally speech.
- Prosecutors relied on a video showing Shah offering Rs10 million to anyone who beheaded then–Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa.
- Shah was arrested on July 29, 2024, in Okara following a FIR at Lahore’s Qila Gujjar Singh station that also named about 1,500 TLP workers.
- The decision comes after the federal government proscribed TLP in October under the Anti-Terrorism Act following deadly protests, with party leader Saad Rizvi reported missing.