July 17, 2006	Monday	Jumadi-ul-Sani 20, 1427

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ISLAMABAD, July 16: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) activist Dr Israr Shah has alleged that a secret agency was harassing his family in order to force him to take back a case he had filed with the election tribunal against the brother of the commerce minister.

Speaking at a press conference at the PPP media centre here on Sunday, Dr Israr Shah said he had filed a case against Senator Haroon Akhtar, brother of commerce minister, Humayun Akhtar.

In his case, Dr Israr had challenged the election of Mr Haroon on the seat of technocrat in the Senate and had contended that he was an industrialist who owned sugar mills and other industries.

He said now Mr Haroon was about to be declared illegible for the post by the court.

That is why a secret agency had started harassing him and his family and was pressing him to take back the case or be prepared for dire consequences.

“They (the agency’s operatives) want me to withdraw the case. They also promised to give me incentives and have offered me the post of minister. If anybody doubts it, he should come to Faisal Mosque, which is the house of Allah, to negate my assertion,” he said.

In the latest intervention of a state agency, he said, his wife Dr Naela Israr, a gynaecologist working in Polyclinic Hospital, Islamabad, had been transferred to MCH Centre, Jacob Lines, Karachi.

This was a violation of the policy, which discouraged such postings that separated wives from husbands, he said.

A case against the transfer had been filed with the Federal Service Tribunal and the court had also sought the comments from the health ministry, he added.