ISLAMABAD, Nov 5: After remaining in detention for four days at the Police Station Secretariat here, former federal minister and PML-Q MPA from Balochistan Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind was released on bail on Monday.

A bench of the Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, Justice Gulzar Ahmed and Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed granted him interim bail and ordered his release, provided he is not wanted in any other case, on two surety bonds of Rs500,000 each to be submitted at the registrar office.

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