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KARACHI, Feb 21: The additional district and sessions judge, Central, Ghulam Qadir Leghari, acquitted two leaders of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement in two more criminal cases.
The cases against Dr. Farooq Sattar and Kunwar Khalid Younus were registered by the Nazimabad police on May 1 and 4, 1994 for creating disturbances, violence, arsoning and attack on police party under sections 147, 148, 149, 324, 353 etc. of the Pakistan Penal Code.
The judge exonerated the two leaders from all charges as the prosecution could not prove its cases.
With the acquittal in these two cases, Mr Younus has so far been acquitted in 79 cases. Still, 14 cases are pending against him.
One of the cases pertained to the torching of a Suzuki car and a branch of the United Bank Limited during violent activities on May 1, 1994.
Those declared proclaimed offenders in this case included Khalid Murtaza, S. M. Mohiuddin, Haroon Siddiqui, Waseem Akhter and Sagheer Ansari.
The other case pertained to the torching of a mini-bus of route ‘X-10’ during violent activities on May 5, 1994. Party chief Altaf Hussain was among those declared absconding accused in this case.
DRUG TRAFFICKERS: The special anti-narcotics court, headed by Judge Ali Nawaz Pirzada, convicted four Nigerians and a local for drug trafficking and sentenced them to different term of the rigorous imprisonment.
The judge convicted the Nigerian drug smugglers in separate cases and sentenced them each to suffer rigorous imprisonment for five years.
The judge also imposed a fine of Rs50,000 each on the convicts, who all had concealed the contraband heroin, stuffed in well-insulated capsules, in their rectums.
The convicts were: Christofer Emeka, arrested on Sept 22 last year with 866 grams heroin, Chukwu Dera Ezike, arrested on Sept 20 last year with 788 gms, Moris Stephen, arrested on May 30 last year with 731 gms, and Lawrence, who was arrested on Sept 2 last year.
They all were intercepted by the Anti-narcotics Force officials at the Quaid-i-Azam International Airport, where they had reached to board international flights.
