KARACHI, May 30: The judicial magistrate, East, Mehboob Ali Dayo, remanded on Friday a leader of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement in judicial custody.
Asif Sheharyar, joint secretary of the MQM (Haqiqi), was arrested on May 19, 2003 by the Shah Faisal police for possessing an unlicensed weapon.
The judge has ordered his production before the court on June 12.
SENTENCED: The additional district and sessions judge, Central, Nauman Memon, sentenced a reckless driver to a 10-year term for killing three people.
The judge ordered Rasheed Ahmed, driver of minibus (W-11), to pay Rs251,225 as compensation for the deaths of Naseem, Abrar-ul-Haq and Nusrat Jahan and Rs12,581 for the injuries caused to Ruqqaya and Shahjahan.
FRENCHMEN KILLING CASE: An anti-terrorism court put off the hearing of the Frenchmen killing case after the defence counsel completed the cross-examination of a prosecution witness.
Judge Feroz Mahmood Bhatti of the ATC-2, who is conducting the trial inside the Central Prison, put off the hearing till Monday after Gohar Iqbal and Ashraf Mughul cross-examined Inspector Ijaz.
Accused Mohammed Asif Zaheer and Rizwanullah, who were allegedly trained in a camp belonging to Harkat Jihad-i-Islami in Afghanistan, are facing the charges of killing 11 French naval engineers and two Pakistanis in a suicide bomb attack last year.
The French engineers, who were helping Pakistan build its Agosta 90-B submarine, were killed when an explosives-laden vehicle blew up their bus outside the Sheraton hotel.
Accused Asif Zaheer and Rizwanullah are being represented by M. R. Syed and Gohar Iqbal respectively. Mohammed Ashraf Mughul has been appointed on state expenses for absconding accused, Mohammed Saeed alias Akram , Adnan Qamar alias Noni alias Osama, Abdul Samad, Basit and Mustafa.
Special public prosecutor Maula Bux Bhatti, assisted by court’s special public prosecutor Mazhar Qayyum, has so far examined 40 prosecution witnesses.
MEHMOODABAD MASSACRE: An anti-terrorism court recorded on Friday the statement of a prosecution witness in the Mehmoodabad massacre case against the chief of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, Akram Lahori, and three others.
Lahori, Mohammed Azam, Attaullah and Malik Tasadduq were charged with killing six people and injuring five others in an attack on April 10, 2001 on Ali Murtaza Imambargah in Mehmoodabad.
Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch of the ATC-5, who is holding the trial inside the juvenile jail, fixed June 4 for the next hearing after recordingthe statement of Dr Shahab Junejo.
Six faithful were killed and five injured when they were sprayed with volleys of bullets during Maghrib prayers.
The prosecution witness was also cross-examined by the defence counsel.
