RAWALPINDI, Aug 29: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) here on Wednesday deferred hearing in cases related to Lal Masjid issue until September 11 as the lawyer of Maulana Abdul Aziz did not turn up in the court.
Maulana Abdul Aziz was produced in ATC-2 as the ATC-1 judge was on leave. He was produced in as many as 10 cases registered in 2005 and 2007 against him with three different police stations of Islamabad.
The main cases included murder of a ranger, abduction of police personnel, Aunty Shamim and Chinese nationals, threats to shopkeepers who dealt with film CDs and distribution of hate material.
Four students of Jamia Fareedia — Naveed, Nusrat, Anas Gul and Mohammad Naseem — were also produced in the ranger’s murder case and one student, Mohammad Afzal, in the Aunty Shamim abduction case.
The hearing in their cases was also deferred till September 11.
Meanwhile, there was no progress in Shazia Mubashir case due to the absence of ATC-I judge Habibur Rehman
Shazia was arrested in January 2004 in connection with suicide attacks on the convoy of President Gen Pervez Musharraf near Jhanda Chichi on December 25, 2003 in which 15 people were killed.
She was earlier tried by the army court which acquitted her of all charges and she was given in the custody of the police on August 23, 2005. Since then she along with her four-year-old son has been languishing in Adiala Jail without any headway in her case.
Her lawyers had been contesting that she could not be retried on the same charges whereas the prosecution counsel was stressing that she could be charged on terrorism charges.
Shazia would again be produced in the court on September 3.
