Akhlas Ahmed Akhlaq was a Russian citizen who in the year 2003, he was convicted by Pakistani authorities on the plot to kill the then president and military chief Pervez Musharraf. All he, his family and his lawyer have denied the charge. Russian diplomats attached to the embassy in Islamabad have all claimed that he was denied counselor support or any contact with them.[1]
Background
Akhlas Akhlaq was a Russian citizen born in the city Volgograd in . He was born to a Russian mother and a Pakistani father of Kashmiri ethnicity. He later moved to Pakistan as an adult to help his father with his business.[2][3]
Arrest and execution
Akhlaq was arrested in the early 2000s and charged in a military court until found guilty of terrorism in an alleged attempt to murder Pervez Musharraf. His execution was postponed as the death penalty has been suspended under former president Asif Zardari's era. But following the 2014 Peshawer School Massacre, it was restored and the Akhlaq was shortly later executed in a jail in the Pakistani city of Faisalabad.[4]