September 15, 2007	Saturday	Ramazan 2, 1428

RAWALPINDI, Sept 14: An anti terrorism court (ATC) here on Friday directed the deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Aabpara circle to submit a report on the present status of three suspected suicide bombers as they had not been produced in the court despite repeated orders.

ATC No. 1 Judge Habibur Rehman asked DSP Mumtaz Hussain to present on September 17 his report about Faisal Mushtaq, Qasim Mushtaq and Fasihullah, who were arrested for their alleged involvement in the two recent suicide blasts in the capital that left 31 people dead.

The judge also directed the investigation officer in the case to have the medical examination of the three suspects conducted and submit the medical report on the next hearing date.

In the same case, the Adiala Jail superintendent on Friday tendered a report sought by the court for the absence of the three suspects during the last hearing.

The superintendent stated that he received a telephone call from the Punjab Home Department about shifting of the three accused to Faisalabad Jail and he handed them over to DSP Hussain.

The police claimed that Fasihullah, a resident of Dera Ismail Khan and two brothers — Faisal Mushtaq and Qasim Mushtaq — residents of Kotli Sattian were arrested from the Bhara Kahu police station limits and three different FIRs under section 3 and 4 of the Pakistan Penal Code’s explosives act were registered on August 22.

They were shifted to Adiala Jail on court directives for their identification parade but later moved to a high security prison in Faisalabad.

The lawyer of the two brothers had maintained that according to their father, a professor at a public sector university in Islamabad, Qasim was arrested on August 9 and Faisal the next day from their residence in the jurisdiction of Shahzad Town police station, where their father lodged a complaint about their disappearance.

Their family asserted that they watched on TV on August 22 that the two brothers were arrested from Bhera interchange on motorway with an explosives vest and sophisticated weapons.

Meanwhile, the judge framed charges against a man arrested in connection with attacks on missionary facilities in Taxila and Murree five years ago, killing some seven persons and injuring many others. The accused has pleaded not guilty.

According to Taxila police, Safeer Ahmed, a resident of Kharian, was arrested by the Lahore police on August 12. They said he was one of the eight men who carried out a grenade attack on a Christian chapel in a government hospital in Taxila on August 8, 2002, killing six female nurses.

The same gang attacked a missionary school in Murree killing the guard just a week after the hospital attack.

Police believed that Safeer was the mastermind and he provided all weapons to the attackers. An anti terrorism court had earlier sentenced six men — Ayaz, Qaiser, Abu Bakar, Sabir, Toufeeq Khan and Asif Raza — to death whereas one man, Nazeer Ahmed alias Usama, a resident of Bhawalnagar, is still at large.