Forging court documents: Police granted custody of slain FIA prosecutor’s son

District court grants three-day physical remand to Ramna police

ISLAMABAD: A district court on Wednesday granted three-day physical custody of a suspect to the Ramna police for allegedly forging documents of the Islamabad High Court.

The police had booked Chaudhary Nisar Ali – the son of slain Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) prosecutor Chaudhary Zulfiqar Ali – under several sections related to fraud, forgery and misuse of forged documents to malign Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Judge Syed Kausar Abbas Zaidi.

Nasir has been pursuing the murder of his father since May 2013 in the ATC. He had filed an application before the IHC seeking the expeditious trial of the case since the suspects being tried for his father’s murder had yet to be indicted.

Later, he filed an application before the IHC to transfer his case to another ATC. On February 7, the IHC transferred the case to another Islamabad ATC.

The FIR stated that Nasir, however, forged an order of the IHC to defame the ATC judge.

In the forged order, Nasir wrote that the ATC judge had submitted “unconditional apology” to the slain prosecutor’s son and his counsel, former additional prosecutor general Muhammad Ishaq Hanjra, after they approached the high court seeking a legal remedy against the ATC.

On May 3, 2013, FIA’s prosecutor and his Frontier Constabulary guard Farman Ali, were heading to an ATC in Rawalpindi in connection with the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto when unidentified men opened indiscriminate fire on him.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 9^th, 2017.