KARACHI, Oct 22: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday directed the Sindh prosecutor general to designate a public prosecutor immediately in the Wali Babar murder case. The court was informed that a letter was written to the prosecutor general on Monday asking him to post a public prosecutor in the case, because the prosecutor who had been engaged in the case had gone on vacation.

The court directed the authorities concerned to write to the provincial chief prosecutor to immediately appoint a prosecutor in the case pertaining to the killing of the journalist of a private TV channel.

Meanwhile, the counsel for the accused persons, Advocate Salman Mujahid, a Member of the National Assembly, tendered his apology for not attending to the case. He said that he could not appear in court as he was busy in the assembly session.

The bench adjourned the hearing to Oct 29.

Suspect remanded in DHA rape case

The suspect who allegedly raped a young girl and later pushed her off from the second floor of a building in the Defence Housing Authority was remanded in police custody for five days for investigation and interrogation by a judicial magistrate of Karachi south.

The Defence police produced Khalid Baloch before Judicial Magistrate Hatim Aziz Solangi and submitted that the victim was still unconscious and her statement would be recorded only after she regained consciousness.

The girl was assaulted sexually and thrown from the second floor of a building in the DHA on Monday night, according to the police.

The suspect is accused of having lured the victim near the Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine to his apartment where he allegedly raped her. The suspect later threw her from the apartment and the victim sustained injuries to her head. She is being treated at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre.