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KARACHI, May 10: The district and sessions judge, Central, Zafar Ahmed Sherwani, issued on Friday order for the production of Asif Ali Zardari, husband of former prime- minister Benazir Bhutto, in the Justice Nizam murder case.
The judge ordered the jail authorities to produce Mr Zardari in the court on July 5 in connection with the hearing of the double-murder case.
Justice Nizam Ahmed, a former judge of the Sindh High Court, and his son Nadim Ahmed, a lawyer, were shot dead in an attack in 1996 near their house in the police limits of Ferozabad.
Asif Zardari, along with three co-accused — Akhtar Javed Pirzada, Bilal Shaikh and Babar Sindhu — are facing the charges of double murder.
All the accused have obtained bail in the case.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE: The judicial magistrate, South, Syeda Perveen Shah, also issued order for the production of Asif Zardari in court in a case pertaining to an alleged attempt to commit suicide.
Asif Zardari, who was formally arraigned in the case in October last year, was charged with attempt to commit suicide on May 19, 1999, while being interrogated in a murder case in the custody of the Civil Lines CIA.
The magistrate adjourned the hearing of the case to May 25, and she ordered the jail authorities to produce the accused in the court on the next date.
NBWs AGAINST SHO: An additional district and sessions judge, South, Farooq Ali Channa, issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of a former station house officer of Defence police station, inspector Naeem Khan.
The judge ordered the arrest of the police official for his failure to appear in the court despite repeated notices.
Inspector Khan was required by the court for his testimony in a murder case against accused Saifullah.
The judge ordered the police authorities to produce the inspector before him on the next date of hearing.
ACQUITTED: An additional district and sessions judge, Central, Nauman Memon, acquitted a worker of the banned Tehrik-i-Jafferia Pakistan in a case pertaining to the torching of a public bus.
Abbas Ali was prosecuted for setting a bus on fire in 1998 in Nazimabad.
The judge acquitted him of all charges as the prosecution could not establish its case against him.
MOSQUE KILLINGS: The prosecution closed its side in a case pertaining to the killing of 10 persons in a mosque against two workers of the banned Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan after examining its last witness in an anti- terrorism court.
Judge Abdul Ghafoor Memon of the ATC-2 adjourned the hearing of the case to Monday when the accused, Dilawar alias Dildar and Saeed Awan, would record their statements.
Public prosecutor Mazhar Qayyum examined a total of 27 witnesses in the case.
Nine persons were killed and five injured, one of them fatally, when worshippers were sprayed with bullets during Fajr prayers in Hur Mosque in Al- Falah Colony off Sharea Faisal.
Those killed in the shooting were Syed Ejaz Husain Kazmi, 50; Syed Zulfiqar Anwar Taqvi, 45; Mohammed Nawaz, 50; Syed Hasnain Naqvi, 53; Syed Safdar Abbas Naqvi, 21; Jamshed Abbas, 35; Nazeer Ahmed, 55; Imtiaz Husain, 18 and Amjad Ali, 18. Syed Hasnain Naqvi and Syed Safdar Abbas Naqvi were father and son, respectively. The wounded included Ghulam Husain (the prayer leader), Syed Tasweer Husain (Muazzin), Mohammed Anwar and Altaf Husain.
Saeed had earlier been sentenced to death for killing DSP Sadiq Husain and his son. Dilawar had also been condemned to death in a double-murder case by the ATC-1 last month.
ACQUITTED: The special anti-narcotics court, headed by Judge Ali Nawaz Pirzada, acquitted three men prosecuted separately for possessing different quantities of contraband narcotics.
The judge acquitted Mohammed Shahoo, who was arrested on July 2, 1998 by the excise police near Safoora Goth. Police had claimed to have recovered 500 gram charas from him.
Basit Ali, another acquitted man, was arrested on July 7 last year by the Sharea Faisal police allegedly with 200 gram charas.
The third acquitted man, Fazle Rabbi, was arrested on February 29, 2000 by the Mithadar police which allegedly seized 200 gram charas from him.
The judge acquitted the three accused, who were on bail, in the cases as the prosecution could not bring incriminating evidence against them.
