Shuja Khanzada attack case: Prime suspect sent on judicial remand

RAWALPINDI:

A suspected terrorist believed to be involved in the attack on Punjab Home Minister Shuja Khanzada was sent on judicial remand to Adial Jail on Monday.

Special Judicial Magistrate Shahid Hameed Chaudhry sent Qasim Muawia, the suspect, on judicial after physical remand expired on Monday.

Counter-terrorism department (CTD) of the Punjab Police had arrested Muawia and obtained his physical remand from the court on September 29.

Sources said ammunition, suicide vests and detonators were recovered from the suspect. They said investigators have also elicited names of other suspects from Muawia and raids were being conducted for their arrests.

The suspect will be produced before the court again on November 22.

Khanzada and 16 others had been killed in a suicide blast on August 16, 2015, at his political office in Shadi Khan, near Attock.

Khanzada, 71, had been holding a meeting with locals when a suicide bomber blew himself up. The home minister and several others were buried under the rubble after the blast brought down the roof of the house.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 10^th, 2015.