PESHAWAR: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Bannu dismissed on Friday a plea by Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) seeking extension in physical remand of lawmaker Mohsin Dawar, a senior lawyer said.
The Magistrate on Duty Inamullah ordered to send Dawar on judicial remand to Peshawar Central Prison partly because of security concerns, Advocate Mureed Hayat, who was present at the court when Dawar was produced, told Arab News.
“However, a bail application will be filed on coming Monday and subsequently a date will be fixed for the next hearing,” he added.
Dawar’s brother Saud Dawar told Arab News that he was optimistic his brother would be released on bail very soon as they had expedited the legal fight.
Mohsin Dawar, who is a Member of the National Assembly (MNA), was arrested last week over allegations of leading an assault on a security check post in North Waziristan tribal district.
Last month, according to a statement by the military’s media wing, Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar, the two MNAs and leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), had incited a group of people, attacking a check post in an attempt to forcibly secure the release of a “terrorists facilitator” which triggered exchange of fire leaving multiple casualties in the North Waziristan tribal district.
However, the two lawmakers have denied the charges.
Wazir, who is a lawmaker from the adjacent South Waziristan tribal district, is already in police custody over charges of leading the May 26 attack on Khar Qamar check post in Boya, a hamlet in North Waziristan region.
Hayat said that earlier a special ATC judge had remanded Dawar in police custody for eight days.
The charges against Dawar have been framed under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA), 1997 of the Pakistan Penal Code 302 (murder), 324 (attempt to murder) and others, he added.
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Mohsin Dawar sent to Peshawar Central jail on judicial remand
Mohsin Dawar sent to Peshawar Central jail on judicial remand
- Dawar and another lawmaker Ali Wazir were arrested over allegations of leading an assault on a security check post
- Anti-Terrorism Court rejected plea to extend his physical remand
Magnitude 6 quake kills one person, brings down houses in northern Pakistan
- Heavy mountain rocks hit several access roads
- Government moves machinery to clear all roads
A man died and several houses collapsed after an earthquake of magnitude 6 struck northwestern Kashmir in Pakistan on Monday, an official and the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC) said.
The quake was at a depth of 35 km (21.75 miles), the EMSC said.
Several mud-houses either collapsed or were damaged in Pakistan’s northern province of Gilgit-Baltistan, regional information minister Ghulam Abbas said.
Heavy mountain rocks hit several access roads and a major highway, he said, adding that the government agencies had moved machinery to clear the roads, he said.
The man died after a rock hit him on a road, the minister added.
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