October 20, 2007	Saturday	Shawwal 7, 1428

RAWALPINDI, Oct 19: An anti-terrorism court here on Friday sent a man allegedly involved in a suicide attack on Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz to Adiala Jail for 14 days for identification parade.

Police stated that Nazeer Adil alias Usama, a resident of Bahawalnagar, was suspected of being involved in a suicide attack on the prime minister on July 30, 2004 in Attock. Police wanted his identification parade to be conducted in the jail.

Charges were to be framed against two other men, Maulvi Muhammad Imtiaz and Muhammad Usman, arrested on Friday for their alleged role in the suicide attack, but the ATC-2 Judge, Sakhi Muhammad Kahot, put off the decision.

Earlier in the same case eight people — Abdul Manan, Nisar Ahmed, Abdul Basit, Qari Ahmed Khan, Noor Badshah, Maulvi Sadiq, Muhammad Usman Zohair and Qari Salman — were arrested.

An ATC judge awarded death penalty to four of them, life imprisonment to three and acquitted one on May 22, 2006.

It may be mentioned here that the Taxila police claimed that the accused, Nazeer, was also a member of an eight-man group that carried out grenade attacks in August 2002 on Taxila Christian Hospital, killing six female nurses, and a Murree missionary school in which a guard lost his life.

The police had earlier arrested another man Safeer Ahmed resident of Kharian, the alleged mastermind of these attacks, who is being tried in the same court.

An ATC had sentenced six men — Ayaz, Qaiser, Abu Bakkar, Sabir, Toufiq Khan and Asif Rana — to death in the same case.—A Reporter