September 25, 2008	Thursday	Ramazan 24, 1429

RAWALPINDI, Sept 24: An anti-terrorism court here on Wednesday issued a show-cause notice to the superintendent of Adiala Jail for not producing two men accused of involvement in an attack on the plane of former president Pervez Musharraf last July and adjourned the hearing in the case till October 8.

ATC-II Judge Sakhi Mohammad Kahot directed the jail official, to explain as to why Mohammad Mazharul Haq, a resident of Islamabad, and Niaz Ahmed, a resident of Rawalpindi, were not produced in the court after they were sent to the jail on judicial remand.

The court also directed the Banni police to submit the charge sheet against the accused on the next hearing date.

According to the Banni police, they had found a connection between the two accused and the July 6, 2007 attack on the plane of the former president that flew from Chaklala Airbase. Shots were fired from the rooftop of a house aligned with the flight path in Asghar Mall residential area. The two accused along with four other men were arrested by the New Town police on July 1 and suicide vests were also recovered from them.

Law enforcers recovered a 12.7mm anti-aircraft gun and a 7.62mm machinegun from the roof of a rented house after the area people heard sound of gunshots. Though the government denied at that time the target was the plane of the president, the Banni police registered an FIR under sections 120-B, (criminal conspiracy), 121-A (conspiracy to wage or attempt to wage war or abetting waging of war against Pakistan), 122 (Collecting arms, etc., with intention of waging war against Pakistan), 123 (Concealing with intent to facilitate design to wage war) of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), terrorism and possession of illegal weapons against the unknown persons. Separately, ATC No. I Judge Chaudhry Habibur Rehman put off the hearing in the case regarding last September’s suicide attack at R.A. Bazaar after the police did not produce the accused, Umer Adil, in the court.

Umer was arrested in July with a suicide vest and grenades and was accused of involvement in the suicide attack at the R.A. Bazaar and had been in Adiala Jail on judicial remand.

Meanwhile, a court bailiff recovered three children in two separate raids and handed them over to their claimant mothers, and District and Sessions Judge (DSJ) Attaullah Kausar directed the parents to appear in the court on October 29 for the settlement of the custody dispute.

In the first case, the bailiff recovered Laiba, 4, and Saba, 2, from the house of their father, Nasir Mehmood, in Kalar Syedan and handed them over to their claimant mother, Tahira Naveed.

In the other case, the bailiff recovered one and half years old Mohadisa from the house of her father Naveed Ahmed in Gharibabad locality and handed her over to her mother, Rifat Ashraf.