Dr Asim granted bail in terrorism facilitation case

Rangers accused him of sheltering and treating injured terrorists belonging to MQM, Lyari gang members

KARACHI: Sindh High Court on Tuesday granted bail to Dr Asim Hussain in a case related to sheltering and treatment of criminals at his private health facilities.

The order was passed by the fifth bench passed four benches earlier had declined to hear bail pleas of Dr Asim and others.

Rangers had registered a case against Dr Asim at the North Nazimabad police station, accusing him of sheltering and treating injured terrorists belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and gangs based in Lyari at his private hospitals.



MQM leaders Wasim Akhtar and Abdul Rauf Siddiqui and PSP president Kaimkhani were also charged in the same case.

Earlier, Dr Asim denied the allegations as bogus and fake as they lacked any plausible evidence.

After much back and forth, a new bench of the SHC was constituted to hear the bail application of Dr Asim and others in the case relating to alleged sheltering and treatment of ‘terrorists’ at his private health facilities in Karachi.



In June, a government official testified before an accountability court in a corruption case, involving more than Rs400 billion, against former petroleum minister Dr Asim and others.

Emaduddin, a section officer at the provincial revenue department, deposed before the accountability courts’ administrative judge Saad Qureshi that Dr Asim was allotted more than 25 acres in Korangi and around two acres in Malir.

The revenue official also corroborated the prosecution claim of having obtained the copies of allotment documents from his department.