The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday set aside the detention of Muhajir Qaumi Movement (MQM-H) Chairman Afaq Ahmad and issued orders for his immediate release.
A two-member SHC bench presided over by Chief Justice Sarmad Jalal Usmani issued the release orders while hearing a contempt of court case.
During the hearing, Afaq Ahmad argued that police officers had said in their affidavits presented in the court that there was no case registered against him, except 13 cases in which he had been cleared. “I was detained under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) Act after I was released in all the cases. The additional chief secretary had come to the jail to comply with court orders but my appeal was not discussed. Several conditions for release were given which were not acceptable to me,” he said.