14 May 2004	Friday	23 Rabi-ul-Awwal 1425

RAWALPINDI, May 13: A court here on Thursday issued arrest warrants of the adviser to the prime minister on women development, Nelofar Bakhtiar and nine PML-N activists in a case related to an attack on the Rawalpindi bench of the Lahore High Court.

Senior Civil Judge Abdur Rehman issued the warrants for Nelofar Bakhtiar and others for not appearing in the court after the court started day-to-day hearing of the case on the directives of the Supreme Court.

The prosecution contended that some PML-N activists had resorted to violence and had attacked the Lahore High Court's Rawalpindi bench in November 1995. Nine other PML-N activists, who were served notices are, Shakeel Anwar Batt, Ilyas Subhani, Zafar Iqbal, Anjum Iqbal, Farooq Khattak, Abdullah Khan, Zangi Khan, Zahid Mehmood and Azhar Mehmood.

A number of other PML-N activists nominated in the case, including Maqbool Ahmed Khan, Tanveer Ahmed Shaikh and Zaibun Nisa were present during the hearing of the case.

Meanwhile, additional district and sessions judge Chaudhry Abdul Qayyum extended the already extended interim bail of Pakistan People's Party MNA Zamarud Khan, general secretary of the Muttahida Transport Action Committee Shabir Bangash and his fellow transporter Akram Bunda, till May 15.

They are nominated in two cases related to the torching of buses of a private transport company.