Around 100 cases have been registered against Muttahida Qaumi Movment (MQM)’s London-based supremo, Altaf Hussain under the clauses of the Pakistan Penal Code and Sections 6 and 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997 for making remarks against the military establishment and other national security agencies in his speeches.
Sources said sections of terrorism were included in the FIRs in which MQM’s 27 MNAs and MPAs have also been booked among 200 unidentified persons.
Reports said MQM’s Waseem Akhtar, Farooq Sattar, Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui, Rauf Siddiqui, Rashid Godil, Khawaja Izhar-ul-Hassan, Khushbakht Shujaat, Kishwar Zehra, Anwar Jahan Zaidi and Zahida Begum were among those nominated in the FIRs.
According to reports, 14 FIRs have been lodged in 11 different police stations, including Steel Town, Sachal Malir Cantt, Malir City, Gadap, Quaidabad, Bin Qasim, Sohrab Goth and Super Highway police stations in Karachi alone.
SIDDIQUI BAILED:
In the meanwhile, the Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday awarded 10-day protective bail to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Abdul Rauf Siddiqui, who was nominated in a terrorism-related case for listening to the MQM chief Altaf Hussain’s outburst criticising the country’s security agencies.
A division bench headed by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar approved Siddiqui’s bail against the surety bond of Rs 50,000.
The applicant’s counsel said that in a case registered with Malir district’s Sukkun police station, the complainant had nominated his client alleging that he attended the public gathering and listened to the Altaf’s speech. However, the counsel, said no case is made out against his client and pleaded with the judges to grant bail to his client, enabling him to appear before the trial court and face the charges.
In the case, the complainant stated that the MQM chief criticized the government, and the country’s security agencies, adding his slandering remarks hurt his feelings.
