KARACHI, Oct 19: An anti-terrorism court put off on Tuesday the hearing of a case against two doctor brothers after recording the statement of a prosecution witness.

Judge Feroze Mehmood Bhatti of the ATC-2, who is conducting the trial inside the Central Prison, fixed Wednesday for the next hearing after the statement of Syed Ali Murtaza Qadri, an X-ray technician.

The two brothers, being represented by Ilyas Khan and Shaukat Hiyat, have been charged with a series of offences, including medical treatment to Al Qaeda activists and other terrorists, and for sending people to Wana for terrorist training.

Dr. Akmal Waheed, a cardiologist, and his younger brother Dr. Arshad Waheed, a kidney specialist, are also facing charges of financing, harbouring and treating activists of the Jundullah. The police announced the arrest of the brothers on July 2, though the family claimed that they had been picked up on June 17.

According to police, some Jundullah activists, arrested for their involvement in an attack on the corps commander's convoy and other terrorist activities, stated that the doctor brothers had close links with them.

They were charged with supporting, assisting, providing different kinds of facilities, including financial help, to the members of Jundullah.

It was also alleged that the accused doctors treated the activists of the banned Jundullah Group, who were injured during an attack on a Rangers patrol.

The X-ray technician stated that a patient was referred to him for X-ray on March 19. On July 6, he said, Inspector Riaz Ahmed of the Ferozabad police interrogated him.

The prosecution witness, who was also cross-examined by defence counsel, deposed that on July 7 he went to the court of a judicial magistrate where he identified the patient in a set of dummies during an identification parade.