KARACHI, Jan 8: Twelve more workers of the Pakistan People’s Party accused of being involved in the recent violence in the city were released on bail on Tuesday.

They were charged with looting, rioting and causing damage to public and private property, besides attacking an ASI, Mohammad Nasir, who had sustained injuries and admitted to a hospital.

District and Sessions Judge, East, Feroze Mazhar Ali Syed ordered the release of 10 PPP workers against a surety of Rs50,000 each. An FIR (No.672/07) against the suspects — Mohammad Tanveer, Zahoor Ahmed, Farzamaz Mughal, Mahraj, Mohammad Farooq, Hassan Jahangir, Mushtaq, Amir Shahzad, Ghulam Nabi and Mahboob Hasan — was registered at the Gulshan-i-Iqbal police station under sections 147, 148, 149, 395, 353 and 324 of Pakistan Penal Code.

Another two PPP activists — Ishaq and Zakir — were ordered to be released by the judicial magistrate, East,

They were among the six activists booked under an FIR (No.365/07) registered at the Korangi Industrial Area police station under sections 147, 148, 149, 353 and 395 of Pakistan Penal Code. Four of them had already been released. A panel of PPP Lawyers’ Forum comprising Nafees Ahmed Usmani, Syed Azmat Shah and Zafar Ahmed represented the accused.