The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday issued production orders of Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) chairman Afaq Ahmed, ordering the Karachi Central Jail superintendent to bring the suspect before the court on November 11 in a bail application in a case of kidnapping registered against the detainee.
The SHC division bench headed by Chief Justice Musheer Alam also issued notice to the Sindh prosecutor general to file his comments on the next date.
The bail application was filed by human rights activist Iqbal Kazmi on behalf of the detained political leader.
According to the prosecution, applicant Akram, a city government employee, had registered a first information report in 2001 at the Landhi police station that when he was going to office, Aijaz alias Baboo, Rais alis Toopi and Yamin Hakla kidnapped him on the orders of the MQM-H chief.
In the bail application, Kazmi stated that the case was an act of malafide intention as the alleged accused was in jail for the past seven years and despite many inquiries of the superior court, the police did not mention this case before the court. “After his release order from the last case, his name has suddenly appeared in the FIR.”
The applicant further stated that at first the government had detained the MQM-H chief in jail by imposing a Maintenance of Public Order MPO on the wishes of a coalition government partner.
It was prayed that a suspect belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Ajmal Pahari, had confessed before the Joint Investigation Team that terrorists had planned to assassinate Ahmed on his expected release in April 2010 on the orders of their London leadership. Therefore it is requested that the court proceeds the MQM-H leader’s bail application as his life could be in danger.
