KARACHI:
Fearing for his life, Afaq Ahmed has asked for an urgent hearing of a petition he filed in 2010.
The Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM-Haqiqi) chairman, who has been incarcerated since 2004, filed a number of applications through his authorised representative, Syed Iqbal Kazmi, on Saturday asking for his petition No. 808 of 2010 to be heard. The applicant, implicated in a number of murder and attempted murder cases maintained that, as an under trial prisoner (UTP), his life is under serious threat.
The MQM-H chairman states that he has even gone as far as to remove all the lawyers representing him as their lives were also under threat and one of his lawyers and close aides was killed recently. He also pointed out that at least three Sindh High Court judges have also refused to hear his case, something that suggests that they too may have received threats.
He asked the court to issue orders for him to be produces before the court so that he can argue out his petition as one of his basic rights. The main application, moved on Saturday, asked the court to hear his petition on Monday, October 31.
The SHC received the applications and are likely to be granted. The petitioner asked the court to look into the details of all the pending cases against him and to stop the Karachi police from registration new ones without the court’s permission.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 30th, 2011.
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