LAHORE, May 15: A local anti-terrorism court on Monday extended the remand of PML-N MNA Khwaja Saad Rafiq for another two days in a case registered against him by the Lohari Gate police in 2003. Earlier, the court, headed by judge Ghulam Rasool, remanded him in police custody for four days.

The MNA was sent to the Sarwar Road police station for interrogation in the case in which he is facing charges of firing the police on duty with a rifle during an anti-government demonstration near the Muslim Masjid.

His counsel, Rana Mashhood Ahmad Khan, also a PML-N MPA, was arguing his bail application in a case, also registered by the Lohari police in 2003, when the police informed the court on May 11 that the MNA had been arrested in another FIR registered by the same police.

His counsel opposed the decision of extending the MNA’s remand on the plea that the police had nothing to recover from Saad Rafiq.