The Sindh High Court on Thursday remanded Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s mayor-designate Waseem Akhtar to police custody for five days in a terror facilitation case.
The decision has come in a day after Akhtar approached the high court to seek bail before arrest. Besides Waseem Akhtar, Rauf Siddique and Anees Qaimkhani had also sought assistance in the case from the high court.
Justice Ahmed Ali and Justice Iqbal Mehr of divisional bench of the high court dismissed bail plea of Qaimkhani instructing him to move the trial court. The Qaimkhani’s counsel maintained that his client was out of the country at the time and he had been made a part of the case on ‘mere’ statements of the joint investigation team and witness.
The trial court’s rejection of bail extension did not meet the requirements of the law and it should be overturned, Farooq Advocate requested the court.
MQM’s Waseem Akhtar and Siddique, Pak Sarzameen Party’s Qaimkhani and Pakistan People’s Party’s Abdul Qadir Patel were named by Dr Asim Hussain, former minister of petroleum, during interrogation in case regarding facilitation of terrorists and target killers in Karachi.
Dr Hussain had stated that he treated terrorists in his hospital, Ziauddin Hospital, on request of the aforementioned accused persons. In a rather dramatic turn of events on Tuesday, bails extensions of all four accused were dismissed by an anti-terrorism court.
