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KARACHI, May 16: Two Al-Qaeda suspects, who were arrested with 626 kgs of explosive material, were given in judicial custody on Friday by two judicial magistrates.
Suspects Mohammed Anver alias Jabir and Habibullah alias Imran, booked for possessing illegal arms and ammunition and explosive material by two police stations, were first produced before the judicial magistrate, Malir, Farid Anver Kazi, in the case of Gulzar-i-Hijri police and then in the court of Judicial Magistrate, East, Basheer Channa, in the case of the Korangi Industrial Area police.
Both the magistrates ordered the investigation officers to submit final charge-sheets against the accused. J M Kazi ordered the production of the suspects on May 19 and J M Channa on May 29.
The investigation wing of the Karachi police brought the two suspects, allegedly trained in Afghanistan, to the courts with their faces covered amid extraordinary security arrangements.
The police also produced a third suspect before the magistrates.
According to police, suspect Abdul Muttalib, a Burmese national, was involved in supplying arms and ammunition to the Al-Qaeda suspects. He was also sent to jail.
The Al-Qaeda activists, who were allegedly planning to launch a series of attacks on US interests in the city, were booked in three FIRs (124, 125 and 126) by the Gulzar-i-Hijri police after the Rangers reportedly seized from them 143 kgs explosives, 199 electronic detonators, 50 simple detonators, one roll of detonator card, two sub-machine guns, two pistols, 10 magazines of SMG, and around 1,000 live rounds. The Suzuki pick-up (KA-9818), laden with the arms, was also impounded.
The case, registered with the Korangi Industrial Area police, also pertained to the possession of illegal arms and ammunition, including 483 kgs explosives, 112 hand grenades and 57 detonators.
REMANDED: The judicial magistrate, South, Lubna Yousuf, remanded an activist of the PPP (Shaheed Bhutto) to police custody in a bomb blast case.
Ali Mohammed Sunara, a close aide of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, was brought in an armour personnel carrier to the court of the magistrate, who gave him in the police custody for interrogation till May 20.
According to the police, the activist was involved in a bomb blast at a fruit shop in Lea Market on Jan 20, 1990. Abdul Hameed and Abdul Waheed were injured in the blast.
MAJOR ZARGHAM CASE: A judicial magistrate filed her written statement in the inquiry into a direct complaint against former chief of the CPLC and 19 others for involving an army officer in a Hudood case.
The judicial magistrate, South, Rahmat Ullah Moro, had summoned J M Syeda Perveen Shah to record her statement.
Maj Muhammed Zargham Mirza had lodged a direct complaint before the judicial magistrate for registration of criminal case against 20 respondents, including Jamil Yousuf and SSP A. D. Khawaja, under section 182, 500 and 506 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
Those made respondents in the complaint included: Zaeem Iqbal, ASP, Lubna Tiwana, then SHO of Women Police Station, Inspector Abdul Hakim Bangash, Azhar Ellahi and Sharf Memon.
JM Perveen Shah had been called on the request of Major Zargham, who had referred to a report in a section of press regarding his production as suspect in her court.
JM Shah, in her brief written statement, stated that “no such record is held by this office”.
