Court sends PTI Lahore president on 10-day remand in May 9 case
Judge Manzer Ali Gill allowed police to jail Mian Usman Akram for an identification parade after his arrest on release from two months of preventive detention.
A Lahore anti-terrorism court on Friday sent PTI Lahore president Mian Usman Akram to jail on a 10-day judicial remand to allow an identification parade in the May 9 Askari Tower attack case, after police arrested him on his release from preventive detention.
Police produced Akram before Judge Manzer Ali Gill with his face covered, Dawn reported. The investigating officer asked the court to let him shift the accused to jail so the parade could be held. The judge allowed the request and ordered the 10-day remand.
Dawn reported that the arrest came after the Lahore High Court disposed of a petition challenging Akram's detention. ARY News reported that Lahore deputy commissioner Capt (Retd) Muhammad Ali Ijaz had withdrawn the detention order in a report submitted to the high court through a representative. Justice Ali Zia Bajwa was to hear the petition, according to ARY News.
Akram's wife, Kulsoom Usman, had filed the petition seeking his release, ARY News reported. The party leader had been in jail for two months under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, the outlet said.
ARY News also reported that Noreen Khan Niazi and Uzma Khan, sisters of PTI founder Imran Khan, were released from Kot Lakhpat Jail. They had been held since September 21 under the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, 1960, on orders of the Lahore deputy commissioner. ARY News reported that Noreen Niazi was moved from the jail to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology on October 29 after she complained of chest pain, citing her lawyer Rana Mudassar Umar, and that initial medical examinations were carried out at the hospital.
Akram is the second tier of PTI's Lahore leadership to be held in the case. The Askari Tower attack is one of the cases registered after the events of May 9, and proceedings are being heard by anti-terrorism courts in Lahore.
How the reports differ
Dawn led with the arrest and the 10-day remand ordered by Judge Manzer Ali Gill, while ARY News led with the withdrawal of Akram's detention order by Lahore deputy commissioner Capt (Retd) Muhammad Ali Ijaz. Dawn reported that the Lahore High Court had disposed of the petition against the detention; ARY News said Justice Ali Zia Bajwa was scheduled to hear it. ARY News alone reported that Akram had spent two months in jail under Section 3 of the MPO Ordinance, that his wife Kulsoom Usman filed the petition, and that Imran Khan's sisters Noreen Khan Niazi and Uzma Khan had been released from Kot Lakhpat Jail.
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