KARACHI, Aug 3: An anti-terrorism court adjourned Wednesday the hearing of the corps commander’s convoy attack case against 11 workers of the banned Jundullah group after recording the statement of a prosecution witness. Judge Feroze Mehmood Bhatti fixed Aug 6 for the next hearing after the deposition of assistant sub-inspector Zafar Nazir, who was also cross-examined by defence counsel M. R. Syed.

The prosecution witnesses submitted that he had reached the spot and obtained blood samples and collected the empties. During the cross-examination he stated that he had collected the empties some 100 yards away from the palce of the incident

The prosecution, represented by Iqtidar Ali Hashmi and Maula Bux Bhatti, has, so far, examined 16 prosecution witnesses.

Ataur Rehman alias Ibrahim, Shahzad Ahmed Bajwah, Yaqoob Saeed, Uzair Ahmed, Shoiab Siddiqui, Danish Inam, Najeebullah, Khurrum Saifullah, Shahzad Mukhtar, Khalid Rao and Adnan Shah alias Tipu have been charged with a series of offences, including attack on the motorcade of Lt-Gen Ahsan Saleem Hayat on June 10 last year on the old Clifton bridge, which resulted in the death of six army personnel, three policemen and a passerby.

Mohammed Qasim, Maaz, Shahab, Bilal, Tayyeb, Hammad and Fasih have been declared absconders.