KARACHI, Aug 18: An anti-terrorism court in Karachi on Wednesday adjourned the hearing of trial against activists of Jundullah in corps commander's motorcade attack and other cases as the accused could not be produced before the court.

The jundullah activists were not produced before the court as the jail authorities expressed their inability due to security reasons.

The home department of Sindh was asked to issue orders in respect of jail trial against the accused. ATC judge Feroz Mehmood Bhatti fixed Aug 25 for the next hearing.

Attaur Rehman alias Ibrahim, Shahzad Ahmed Bajwa, Yaqoob Saeed, Uzair Ahmed, Shoaib Siddiqui, Danish Inam, Najeebullah, Khurrum Saifullah and Shahzad Mukhtar are charged with attacking the motorcade of the corps commander Lt-Gen Ahsan Saleem Hayat on June 10 in Clifton. The attack resulted in the killing of six army personnel and three policemen.

They were booked under section 302, 324, 404, 34 PPC with Section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 Section 3, 4 and 5 of Explosive Act. Besides, the police also accused them of killing five policemen at Gulistan-i-Jauhar police station on April 4. In other cases, Jundullah men are charged with engineering two car bomb blasts near PACC on Fatima Jinnah Road. -PPI

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