LAHORE, Nov 18: Mediamen rushed to the house of Dr Amir Aziz in Officers Colony, Cantonment, amid rumours that he was likely to be released sometime by Tuesday night.

The professor was picked up by Pakistani intelligence agencies and the FBI on Oct 21 for his alleged links with the Taliban.

Proceedings on a writ petition filed by his mother, seeking his recovery, are due to be held in the LHC on Tuesday (today). In earlier proceedings, the court had directed the government not to extradite the detenu without its leave and produce him before it.

“We are too much worried,” Imran Aziz, the younger brother of the detenu, replied when this reporter asked him about any update on the issue.

“I have just brought my father back home from the Combined Military Hospital after a check up,” he said and quoted doctors that his father, Aziz Ahmad Khan, had suffered an emotional shock. “He is silent and seems to be in coma.”

Aziz Ahmad Khan, 87, is a retired lieutenant-colonel.

Mr Imran said neither he nor any member of his family had so far been conveyed about any move to release his brother.

None of the officials in police and administration in the provincial metropolis was ready to speak on the issue or to say something about the rumours.