A district court extended the police custody for three days of a man accused of writing a threatening letter addressed to President Asif Ali Zardari and Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
The accused, Yousaf Khan of the Faizabad area, was arrested by Secretariat police the other day under the PPC Section-506 after he had allegedly wrote threatening letters to the president and the chief justice. The prosecution said that a cameraman of a private TV channel had spotted a letter in the parking area of Supreme Court on 25 August 25, which bore the names of some Samandar Khan and Usman Khan as the senders.
In the letter in question, apart from threatening the personalities mentioned above, the sender(s) had also threatened to blow up the SC building with explosives. Following the discovery of the letter, a joint investigation team (JIT) headed by SP Sajid Kiani interrogated scores of people in Islamabad and Peshawar. The team learned that it was Yousaf Khan who had written the letter after his wife was forcibly taken to a brothel house being run in Rawalpindi by some Madam Fauzia Khan.
Confessing to committing the crime, Khan said he did that because he believed that by doing so, he would make the police and intelligence agencies recover his wife.
