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| June 28, 2005 | Tuesday | Jumadi-ul-Awwal 20, 1426 |
Former AJK minister released
MUZAFFARABAD, June 27: Police on Monday released a former AJK minister and three other detained leaders of the opposition People’s Party and its student wing after withdrawing cases against them. Khawaja Farooq Ahmed, former minister for local government and rural development, PPAJK deputy chief organiser Shaukat Javed Mir, PSF chairman Raja Faisal Azad and district president Ahsan Kazmi were arrested on Saturday under different sections of the Penal Code and Emergency Power Act during a PSF rally which was baton-charged by the police.
The detainees were taken to Danna police station, some 35 kilometres from here, and remanded in custody for ten days by the additional district magistrate Attaullah Atta. However, a police party brought them back to Muzaffarabad in the wee hours of Monday and at about 10am, a sub-inspector accompanied them to the Combined Military Hospital for a medical check-up. Doctors found one of Mr Ahmed’s fingers to be fractured.
When contacted by Dawn, the deputy commissioner Muzaffarabad Liaquat Hussain said that the detainees had been released on bail but his assertion was disputed by the former minister.
“None of us have applied for bail. Either they have withdrawn the cases on their own or they must have filed fake bail applications on our behalf,” Mr Ahmed told reporters.
Earlier on Monday, groups of PSF activists burnt tyres at several places in the town in protest against the police baton charge and the arrest of their leaders. However, the police managed to remove the burning tyres from the road and resume the flow of traffic.
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