PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has granted bail to a Christian prisoner, who claimed that he has been detained for around eight years without trial as the records of his alleged crime and detention had gone missing in Khyber tribal district.
A bench consisting of Justice Musarrat Hilali and Justice Syed Arshad Ali directed prisoner Shakeel Masih to submit two surety bonds of Rs100,000 each and adjourned the hearing into his main petition, which requested the court to declare his confinement illegal, unconstitutional and against his basic rights.
The schedule of next hearing will be fixed later.
Saifullah Muhib Kakakhel, lawyer for the petitioner, contended that his client was arrested on Oct 8, 2013, apparently on the charge of his involvement in the murder of an army official in Khyber district (then Khyber Agency) of the erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
A bench consisting of Justice Musarrat Hilali and Justice Syed Arshad Ali directed prisoner Shakeel Masih to submit two surety bonds of Rs100,000 each. DawnNewsTV/File
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has granted bail to a Christian prisoner, who claimed that he has been detained for around eight years without trial as the records of his alleged crime and detention had gone missing in Khyber tribal district.
A bench consisting of Justice Musarrat Hilali and Justice Syed Arshad Ali directed prisoner Shakeel Masih to submit two surety bonds of Rs100,000 each and adjourned the hearing into his main petition, which requested the court to declare his confinement illegal, unconstitutional and against his basic rights.
A member of the Christian minority kept in the Peshawar Central Prison on Wednesday moved the high court seeking his release from the prolonged ‘illegal’ detention. APP/File
PESHAWAR: A member of the Christian minority kept in the Peshawar Central Prison on Wednesday moved the high court seeking his release from the prolonged ‘illegal’ detention.
In the petition, Shakeel Masih claimed that he had been imprisoned for around 10 years without trial, while the records of his alleged crime and detention had been missing from the documents of the relevant court in Khyber tribal district.
He requested the court to declare his detention illegal, unconstitutional and against his basic rights.
MPA Mir Kalam fears arrest for participating in peaceful protest
Peshawar
January 6, 2021
PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly member Mir Kalam Wazir on Tuesday alleged that the law-enforcement officials were visiting the MPAs Hostel in Peshawar for his arrest.
He said that he may be arrested for participating in a peaceful protest in Peshawar for the release of Member National Assembly Ali Wazir.
Mir Kalam Wazir said that Dr Said Alam Mahsud and Rokhan Afghan had already been arrested for participating in the same protest rally.
He said that 60 other PTM activists had been booked in the first information report (FIR) for attending the rally.