LAHORE, Feb 15: A local anti-terrorism court on Thursday reserved judgment for Feb 26 against the leader of a front comprising some religious groups, who was charged with causing heavy losses to the public property in a demonstration on Feb 14 last year.

The protesters had targeted local and foreign interests besides setting hundreds of vehicles on fire to display their anger against the publication of blasphemous caricatures.

Also head of a seminary, Dr Sarfraz Naeemi had headed the front, Tahafuz Namoos-i-Risalat Mahaz, which was alleged to have played a major role in bringing the people on roads. Police had registered a case on the charge of rioting against Mr Naeemi.

SUMMONS: The Lahore High Court on Thursday summoned the director of Interpol on Friday (today) provided any such office existed at the Punjab Civil Secretariat.

Justice Khwaja Muhammad Sharif, however, observed that according to his knowledge no such office was working at the civil secretariat.

However, he issued the summons when petitioner Habibur Rahman Tahir of Gujranwala insisted that the office existed there.

The petition submitted that his business partners Kashif Faraz and Eekihwan, a Korean, committed a fraud with him. He contended that the director of Interpol was harassing him at the behest of his Korean partner and threatening him with implicating him in a terrorism case. —Staff Reporter