PESHAWAR, June 25: A court on Monday confirmed the pre-arrest bail to Senator Ilyas Ahmad Bilour and his nephew Usman Bilour in the murder case of People’s Party Parliamentarians’ leader Syed Qamar Abbas and his friend.

Qamar and his friend Muhammad Ali were killed on May 6 this year in Peshawar.

The court of Additional District and Sessions Judge Gohar Rehman Khan accepted the two bail petitions and observed that there was no evidence on record to connect the accused with the commission of the offence.

In the same case the pre-arrest bail has already been granted to Awami National Party’s senior vice-president Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, his younger brother and MPA Bashir Ahmad Bilour and Bashir’s son Haroon Bilour.

Complainant Syed Tahir Abbas, the brother of the deceased Qamar, has nominated five members of the Bilour family in the case.

The two families have a decade-old enmity between them which started after the murder of Shabir Ahmed Bilour, the only son of Haji Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, at a polling station during general elections in 1997. The deceased Qamar Abbas was charged with the murder.