KARACHI, Nov 2: A division bench of High Court of Sindh, comprising Justice Wahid Bux Brohi and Justice Rehmat Hussain Jaffery, on Tuesday issued notice to the state for Nov 12 on a bail plea filed by Dr Akmal Waheed and Dr Arshad Waheed.

Earlier, an anti-terrorism court for Karachi dismissed the bail applications filed by them on the plea that the case was in initial stages and important prosecution witnesses were yet to be examined.

Both the doctor brothers are facing a case registered by the Gulshan-i-Iqbal Police. They were charged with having links with a terrorist organization, arranging training for terrorists, collecting funds, providing medical treatment to alleged terrorist injured during a terrorist activity.

M Ilyas Khan and Shaukat Hayat will represent the accused. The applicants maintained that so far the evidence recorded by the trial court absolve them of all charges they were charge- sheeted for. It was also maintained that no prosecution witness implicated them and there is no material before the trial court sufficient for their conviction and sentence. The bench after hearing the initial arguments by the counsel for the petitioners, issued notice to the AG Sindh for Nov 12.

APNS PETITION: A division bench of the Sindh High Court, comprising Chief Justice Saiyed Saeed Ashhad and Justice Maqbool Baqer, on Tuesday adjourned hearing of a constitutional petition filed by the All-Pakistan Newspapers Society (APNS) to a date to be fixed later by the office of the court.