KARACHI, Nov 4: The hearing of a kidnapping and murder case and two other cases registered under the Explosives Act and the Arms Ordinance against Mohajir Qaumi Movement (Haqiqi) chief Afaq Ahmed and others were adjourned for Nov 25 as the additional district and sessions judge (East), Abdul Razzaq, who had been conducting the trial, was transferred to Sukkur.

Meanwhile, a murder case and an attempt to murder case registered against Akram Lahori, chief of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi, pending in the same court, were also adjourned till Dec 4.

SPP appointed

The government of Sindh on Tuesday appointed advocate Arshad Iqbal Cheema as the special public prosecutor in the court of the administrative judge of anti-terrorism courts, Karachi.

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