Pakistan

Police raids Zulfiqar Mirza's Karachi residence

Police takes Mirza's driver and guard into custody; weapons seized from former home minister's house

Faraz Khan May 22, 2015

PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE

KARACHI: Police raided on Friday former provincial home minister Zulfiqar Mirza’s house and took two men into custody.

Police surrounded Mirza’s residence in Karachi's Defence neighbourhood and took his driver, Nail Ahmed, and guard, Sikandar, into custody. Further, police seized his guard's weapon as it was reportedly illegal. The police, however, did not enter the former home minister's house.

The move came on the directives of newly sworn-in Sindh home minister Sohail Anwar Sial.

Read: PPP's Sohail Anwar Sial takes oath as Sindh home minister

Four police vans reached Mirza's house this afternoon and left after taking the driver and guard into custody.

Earlier, an anti-terrorism court (ATC) extended Mirza's bail until May 30 in three cases of rioting, looting, attempted murder and attacking police officials that were registered against them earlier this month at a police station in Badin.

Read: Plea approved: Zulfiqar Mirza’s bail extended until 30th

The cases were registered against PPP's estranged leader after he and his supporters allegedly attacked a police station, as well as shops of some PPP supporters in Badin.

Police then arrested three persons nominated in the FIR but did not raid Mirza’s farmhouse, located 10 kilometres away from Badin city.

COMMENTS (8)

Dr Ahmad Ch. | 9 years ago | Reply MIRZA SAHIB seems to be left with short quota of luck while he needs it most.

M Saleem Chaudhry | 9 years ago | Reply @Blithe: The writ of Zardari and his stooges is not the writ of state

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M Saleem Chaudhry | 9 years ago | Reply How far Zardari and his stooges plan to go? The current ruler Nawaz Sharif might be his buddy but there other institutions like Judiciary and army not under the thumb of both these Machiavellians . So much is out in the air from Ayyan's revelations to Dr.Mirza's claims about all sorts of misdoings of Zardari, including murders. So anything can happen anytime.

tribal | 9 years ago | Reply @S.R.H. Hashmi: If you would compare the HUNDREDS of raids in Lyari to the single one in Nine-Zero, perhaps it would be easier to decide who got the better deal, sir.

Amir | 9 years ago | Reply Why is state money being used for fight between Zardari and Zulfiqar!! Use a boxing ring instead!!!

Jibran | 9 years ago | Reply Arrogance of this chap is mind blowing.

Blithe | 9 years ago | Reply No room for miscreants in Pakistan - be it PTI street thugs attacking parliament , mqm militia , TuQ , or this clown . We need to have absokute zero tolerance for all those not accepting the writ of the state

S.R.H. Hashmi | 9 years ago | Reply I can't help comparing the two raids: the earlier one at Nine-Zero and the latest at Dr. Zulfiqar Mirza's Karachi residence, despite what Dr. Mirza did during the last month or so, and earlier on during his tenure as Sindh Home Minister, over and above the fact that the gentlemen seems to have a private militia as well. Karachi

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