KARACHI, April 14: Judge Arshad Noor Khan of the anti-terrorism court-3, who is also the acting administrative judge of the ATCs at Karachi, accepted on Monday five police challans against Abdul Wahab alias Afghani, an activist of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, and sent the cases to the ATC-2 for trial on April 21.

The police submitted chargesheets before the judge against the accused in five terrorism cases lodged at various police stations of Karachi.

The police lodged an FIR against him at Al-Falah police station on a charge of killing nine people and injuring eight others at an Imambargah in Al-Falah Society on Feb 22. He was booked by the Arambagh police on a charge of killing Mohammed Baqar and Ghulam Hussain in a bakery in Lighthouse area on Feb 27.

He is also charged with planting a bomb in a parking area near the Pakistan State Oil House on Feb 3 in the explosion of which one person was killed and two others were injured, the killing of a journalist, Saghir Kazmi, in Korangi on Feb 20, and possessing an illegal submachine gun with 30 rounds. — PPI