RAWALPINDI, May 5: Chief Justice Islamabad High Court (IHC) Sardar Muhammad Aslam here on Monday adjourned hearing in the bail petition of former federal minister Engineer Shahid Jamil for his alleged involvement in the murder of a Pakistani-born Canadian Kafila Siddique till May 19.

Earlier, counsels of the petitioner - Raja Rizwan Abbasi and Wasim Sajjad - had withdrawn the bail petition and entered a fresh one.

Kafila Siddique, a business woman, died in mysterious circumstances on June 9 last year at the house of the minister in Sector G-11/3.

The capital police had registered a case on the application of her brother, Mustafa Siddique, under sections 344 and 346 of Pakistan Penal Code.

Mustafa held Mr Qureshi responsible for the death of her sister and also alleged in his application that she was kept in illegal confinement for more than three months.

In another case, the court disposed of the petition of former Sindh chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim for removal of his name from Exit Control List (ECL).

A representative of the interior ministry told the court on Monday that the name of the petitioner was not on the ECL, on which the court disposed of the petition.

Meanwhile, the Rawalpindi high, district and accountability courts remained closed over death of Justice Sardar Muhammad Iqbal, who served as Lahore High Court chief justice and first ombudsman of Pakistan.