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KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Monday adjourned hearing of a petition seeking quashment of a new criminal case lodged in Karachi against Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi Chief Afaq Ahmed.
A division bench, comprising Justice Gulzar Ahmed & Justice Salman Hamid, was hearing the petition filed by Human Rights Commission for South Asia representative Syed Iqbal Kazmi.
He impleaded Sindh Home Secretary, IG Police Sindh, CCPO Karachi and others as respondents.
Kazmi submitted on a previous hearing that the IG Police Sindh had submitted a report in SHC, confirming no criminal case was pending against Afaq Ahmed except nine in which he was acquitted.
He stated recently on September 28, 2011 that the Sindh Home Department had ordered the detention of Afaq for 30 days under MPO after bail was granted by SHC.
He contended later Advocate General Sindh informed Afaq that he was arrested in a kidnapping for ransom case in which he had absconded since 2001.
Kazmi stated that the detention of MQM-Haqiqi Chief under MPO and his arrest in the ten years old case showed malafide intentions of the Sindh government.
He submitted this action was taken at the behest of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement to bar political activities by Afaq Ahmed, who was in jail for seven years and his activists were either killed or are languishing in prison in false criminal cases.
