KarachiMahrang Baloch’s sedition acquittal stands.
She remains in Quetta prison, serving 2 life sentences handed down in June in a separate case.
A two-judge Sindh High Court bench called the appeal non-maintainable and asked why prosecutors, not the private complainant, were appealing.
Prosecutors argued the anti-terrorism court should not have acquitted her before charges were framed.
The Balochistan High Court has yet to rule on her challenge to the life sentences in Pakistan.
How each outlet framed it
- Dawn
- centers the procedural ruling that the complainant was a private individual, so the state's appeal was non-maintainable
Sources: Dawn