Shift Nisar Morai to a hospital, SHC tells Rangers

Karachi

The Sindh High Court on Thursday once again ordered the Sindh Rangers to shift under-detention prisoner Dr Nisar Morai, former chairman of the Fishermen Cooperative Society and a Pakistan Peoples Party leader, to a hospital for surgery and medical treatment.

The directives came again on a petition filed by Morai’s spouse Dr Seema Naz, who submitted that her husband was detained by the Rangers for 90 days under the anti-terrorism law on March 16, but he was suffering from various ailments and required proper medical treatment at a private hospital.

The petitioner’s counsel, Rasheed A Razvi, submitted that despite previous court orders, the detainee had not been shifted to hospital for medical treatment.

The court directed the paramilitary force to submit a compliance report and shift the detainee to a private hospital for medical treatment and surgery.

Earlier, the Rangers had submitted before the administrative judge of an anti-terrorism court that the detainee was involved in facilitating target killers, extortion and other offences that came within the ambit of the Anti-Terrorism Act.