KARACHI, May 20: Kunwar Khalid Younus, a central leader of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and former member of the National Assembly, was acquitted on Monday in the 91st case by an additional district and sessions judge.

The Muttahida leader, arrested on September 9, 1999, at the party headquarters in Azizabad, now faces trial in two cases.

A member of co-ordination committee of the Muttahida, Mr Younus, bailed out on Feb 16 last year, was booked in as many as 93 criminal cases, including 25 murder cases, by police.

On Monday, an additional district and sessions judge, Central, Ghulam Qadir Leghari, acquitted Mr Younus and three others in a case pertaining to the killing of two partymen in May 1994 near Teen Hatti in the police limits of Liaquatabad. The others acquitted were Dr Farooq Sattar, Idrees Alvi, advocate, and Ameer Haider Kazmi.

Besides the entire top leadership of the Muttahida, 2,500 people, most of them unidentified, were booked in the case.

Two Muttahida workers, Habibuddin and Mohammed Asif, were killed in firing on a party rally, which was on way to the Governor’s House.

The same court also ordered the release of Mr Younus, represented by Rao Sharif, in another murder case as the file was not available on the court record. The judge stopped the proceedings till the recovery of the file of the case.