BAHAWALUPR, Oct 8: An Anti-terrorism Court on Monday granted bail to Shazia Mubashir of mauza Khanqah Sharif, who was first arrested in connection with an attack on President Gen Pervez Musharraf in 2003 in Rawalpindi.

Shazia was granted bail by a Rawalpindi court in the case but was again arrested by Sammasata police from outside Adiala Jail last month for her alleged involvement in a dacoity in Khanqah Sharif.

Her father, Quraish Muhammad, had moved the ATC in a bail application which was accepted by the presiding officer.

RESIGNS: Sardar Muhammad Husain Khan Baloch Advocate, a PPP ticket-holder in 2002 election for NA-185, has announced his resignation from the party membership to `protest Benazir-Musharraf deal and the promulgation of the National Reconciliation Ordinance’.

At a press conference held here on Monday, Baloch, who claims to hold PPP ticket for the upcoming poll, severely criticised Ms Bhutto for what he called striking a deal with government and stabbing the party in the back.

He also condemned Ms Bhutto’s statements on nuclear scientists A Q Khan and American strikes inside Pakistan to hunt Osama Bin Laden. He alleged MS Bhutto had deviated from the party line given by her late father by joining hands with a dictator.

He, however, said he would not join any other political party and work for lawyers’ movement.

Baloch had bagged 25,000 votes as a PPP candidate for NA-185 in 2002 against Millat Party’s Farooq Azam Malik who secured 31,000 votes.