KARACHI, July 9: Justice Qaiser Iqbal of the Sindh High Court, administrative judge for the Karachi division anti-terrorism courts, extended till July 13 the judicial remand of three accused in the April 2006 Nishtar Park suicide blast, which killed 54 people, including prominent leaders of the Sunni Tehrik and other organisations.
Mufti Zakir Hussain, Sultan alias Mahmood alias Muslim, Mohammad Amin alias Khalid Shaheen, activists of the outlawed Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, are all said to be accomplices of the suicide bomber, Mohammad Siddique, son of Israel. A fourth accused, Rehmatullah alias Mufti Ilyas, is already on remand while three more accomplices, Qari Abid Iqbal, Khalid alias Darraywala and Abrar are absconding.
Investigation officer Sarfraz Ahmad informed the judge that a charge-sheet in the case could not be completed as more evidence was coming to surface and identification of the accused was being arranged. Maulana Abbas Qadri, Hafiz Mohammad Taqi, Hanif Blue and Maulana Iftikhar Bhatti were among the leaders killed in the blast.
Rights activist
A division bench of the Sindh High Court ordered the production of rights campaigner Syed Iqbal Kazmi in proceedings on two petitions moved by him.
In the petition against the Karachi Electricity Supply Corporation for resorting to frequent, prolonged and unscheduled load-shedding, the bench, which consisted of Justices Mohammad Moosa K. Leghari and Qaiser Iqbal fixed July 11 as the next date of hearing and directed the Malir Jail superintendent to produce him on that date.
The second petition, which challenged the June 4 Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority, was ordered to be heard together with identical petitions moved by two Sindh Bar Council members and the People’s Lawyers Forum.
The petitioner should be produced whenever the petitions came up for hearing, the bench said. Haji Gul Ahmed represented the petitioner, who is lodged in jail as an under-trial prisoner in four cases, in both pe
Truck seizure
A truck-trailer carrying a loose container which fell on the car of a businessman and killed him and his driver on August 4, 2006, on an under-construction road near Jam Sadiq Ali bridge, Korangi, is to be seized by police and kept in custody till further orders.
The widow, three children and parents of the deceased businessman, Amir Parekh, have instituted a suit for Rs200 million in damages against the owner and driver of the truck-trailer ((No JT-5419), the container service and terminal and the provincial and city governments for negligence.
The plaintiffs’ counsel, Amir Maqsood, contended that the killer vehicle might be removed from the jurisdiction of the court to frustrate a possible decree. The police authorities, he said, had released the vehicle without having any solvent surety.
The judge directed the police to impound the vehicle and the excise department not to allow its transfer to a third party.
